Charlottesville trump
Biden correctly described who was marching that day, and then he
correctly characterized Trump’s comments. The idea that he’s launching his
campaign on the “Charlottesville trump hoax” or the “Charlottesville trump lie” is a
rather amazing contention.
Trump does
this a lot. He will say something suggestive — in this case, suggestive that
the violence in Charlottesville trump wasn’t
really such a clear-cut result of resurgent racism — and then he will later say
something else to give himself plausible deniability. But the plausibility here
is basically nil. Trump seemed to find something redeeming in a group of
protesters that was clearly full of racists. And even though a person in this
group actually killed someone, he decided the blame needed to be shared with
another group that wasn’t nearly so monolithic or hateful — and didn’t kill
anyone. After an outcry, Trump on Aug.
13 offered a more forceful denunciation of the white supremacists,
neo-Nazis and white nationalists who had rallied in Charlottesville trump. But then, on Aug. 15, he again returned to the “both
sides” commentary, saying there was both “blame” and “very fine people” on each
side that day.
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