CHARLOTTESVILLE, TRUMP HAD A CHANCE TO SPEAK OUT ABOUT IT.
HE
ABSOLUTELY BLEW THAT OPPORTUNITY CONDEMNING NAZIS IS ABOUT AS LOW
A BAR AS YOU CAN POSSIBLY HAVE, AND HE COULDN'T CLEAR IT.
BEFORE
FIELDS RAN INTO THE CROWD WITH HIS CAR, THERE WAS ALREADY
MAYHEM AND VIOLENCE, AND RIGHT-WING THROWING TEARGAS
CANISTERS ACCORDING TO REPORTERS AT THE SCENE.
AT THAT POINT
DONALD TRUMP STARTS TWEETING.
SO FAR NO PROBLEM, I WOULD'VE BEEN
FAR MORE CLEAR ON WHO WAS COMMITTING TO VIOLENCE, BUT THIS
IS THE BEGINNING SO FAR.
A LITTLE BIT LATER IN THE MORNING
ON SATURDAY HE SAYS THIS.
STILL, NO CALLING OUT OF THE WHITE
NATIONALISTS WHO ORGANIZED THIS RALLY.
NO CALLING OUT OF THE
TORCHES THEY WERE CARRYING, CLAN GEAR, SWASTIKAS ñ LET ALONE
CLEARLY IDENTIFYING WHO IS DOING THE VIOLENCE.
WHITE NATIONALISTS
WHO ORGANIZE THIS TOOK THIS AS AN ENCOURAGING SIGN.
ANTIFA ARE
THE PROTESTERS WHO SOME CALL LEFTIST, BUT ARE MORE INCLINED
TO AS ANARCHY.
IF YOU DON'T SAY IT CLEARLY THEY GET TO MAKE THAT CLAIM.
TRUMP MADE IT WORSE WHEN HE DID FINALLY SPEAK OUT AND SAID THIS.
WE CONDEMN IN THE STRONGEST POSSIBLE TERMS THIS EGREGIOUS
DISPLAY OF HATRED, BIGOTRY, AND VIOLENCE ñ ON MANY SIDES.
IT'S
BEEN GOING ON FOR A LONG TIME IN OUR COUNTRY.
NOT DONALD TRUMP,
NOT BARACK OBAMA, IT'S BEEN GOING ON FOR A LONG, LONG TIME.
OF COURSE HE MENTIONS NOT DONALD TRUMP OR BARACK OBAMA
BECAUSE HE THINKS PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BLAME HIM FOR IT.
WHY
DID HE SAY THAT WHITE NATIONALISTS AND THE KKK SHOULD
NOT HAVE DONE IT?
IT'S NOT THAT HARD, IT IS LITERALLY THE
EASIEST THING YOU CAN DO.
HE DOESN'T WANT TO SAY IT BECAUSE
HE THINKS THAT IS HIS BASE.
IS GROTESQUE MAN, THEY WILL TAKE IT
AS A GREEN LIGHT.
HE LET THIS FESTER FOR TWO DAYS.
OF THE
REPUBLICAN SENATORS ARE GOING ON TV SAYING IT IS DOMESTIC
TERRORISM.
TED CRUZ SAYS IT'S DOMESTIC TERRORISM.
JEFF
SESSIONS SAYS IT'S DOMESTIC TERRORISM.
HE SAID IT WAS
CLEARLY THE WHITE NATIONALISTS WERE DOING IT IN THE FAR RIGHT
WING THAT WAS DOING IT.
BUT TRUMP WON'T SAY IT. AND THEY
TOOK IT AS A GREEN LIGHT.
BUT FINALLY HE COMES OUT AND MAKES THE STATEMENT TODAY.
AS I SAID ON SATURDAY, WE CONDEMN IN THE STRONGEST
POSSIBLE TERMS THIS EGREGIOUS DISPLAY OF HATRED, BIGOTRY, AND
VIOLENCE.
IT HAS NO PLACE IN AMERICA.
RACISM IS EVIL, AND
THOSE WHO CAUSE VIOLENCE IN ITS NAME ARE CRIMINALS AND THUGS,
INCLUDING THE KKK, NEO-NAZIS, WHITE SUPREMACIST, AND OTHER
HATE GROUPS THAT ARE REPUGNANT TO EVERYTHING WE HOLD DEAR AS
AMERICANS.
THOSE WHO SPREAD VIOLENCE IN THE NAME OF BIGOTRY,
STRIKE AT THE VERY CORE OF AMERICA.
THAT TOOK TWO DAYS.
MEANWHILE IVANKA TRUMP IS TWEETING,
EVERYONE IS ALL OVER TV.
FINALLY AFTER ALL THE PRESSURE IN THE
WORLD, AND EVERY ADVISOR SAYING HEY IDIOT, IT IS NOT HARD TO
CONDEMN THE KKK.
YES THE NEO-NAZIS ARE PROBABLY ON YOUR
SIDE, BUT THAT IS NOT WHY YOU ONE.
BUT THEY ARE NOT THE CORE
OF YOUR VOTERS.
BY THE WAY YOU ARE SO STUPID, THE CORE OF YOUR
VOTERS ARE PEOPLE THAT COULD NOT STAND HILLARY CLINTON, NOT NAZIS
IN AMERICA.
FINALLY WHEN HE DOES HERE HE IS READING FROM A
TELEPROMPTER.
SOMEBODY HOW TO WRITE IT OUT FOR HIM.
WRITE IT
FOR HIM AND MAKE SURE THE SMOKE SAYS IT WORD FOR WORD.
WHEN HE
DOES HE SAYS YOU KNOW I CONDEMN VIOLENCE FROM EVERY PLACE.
JIM
ACOSTA AFTERWARDS IS TRYING TO ASK HIM SOME QUESTIONS,
LISTEN TO THEIR INTERACTION.
CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHAT YOU DID NOT CONDEMN THOSE WHITE
SUPREMACISTS BY NAME OVER THE WEEKEND?
THEY HAVE BEEN CONDEMNED.
WHY AREN'T WE HAVING A PRESS CONFERENCE?
WE HAD A PRESS CONFERENCE.
WE JUST HAD A PRESS CONFERENCE.
CAN WE ASK YOU SOME MORE QUESTIONS?
YOU ARE FAKE NEWS.
THANK YOU EVERYBODY.
THEY HAVE BEEN CONDEMNED, WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT?
THE
DAILY
STORMER IS NAMED AFTER A NAZI PROPAGANDA DURING WORLD WAR II.
HERE ARE THE NEO-NAZIS IN AMERICA SAYING HE SAID MANY
SIDES, THAT MEANS HE LOVES US ALL.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IS?
IT IS CALLED A DOG WHISTLE.
THAT IS NOT ASSAYING IT, IT IS THEM
SAYING IT.
HERE IS WHERE WE ARE GUYS, WERE NAZIS ARE SAYING GOD
BLESS THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, HE HAS BEEN GOOD
TO US AND LOVES US AND THAT IS WHY HE WOULD NOT CONDEMN US.
TRUMP KNEW WHAT MESSAGE HE WAS SENDING.
IF YOU ARE NOT WELL
VERSED IN POLITICS, THAT MESSAGE WAS RECEIVED.
FOR WHITE
SUPREMACIST ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY IT WAS A GIANT BLINKING
GREEN LIGHT, GO FORWARD BECAUSE WHEN I CONDEMN IT A FEW DAYS
LATER I DON'T REALLY MEAN IT.
HOW DANGEROUS ARE THESE GUYS?
THEY SAY THINGS LIKE THIS.
YOU CAN TALK ABOUT SYMBOLIC ARMIES,
I WOULD NOT HAVE READ YOU THAT QUOTE IF IT WASN'T FOR THE
SECOND PART.
DO THEY MEAN LITERALLY VIOLENCE AND WAR?
WE
SAW IT HAPPEN IN CHARLOTTESVILLE.
HERE IS MORE
FROM THE DAILY STORMER.
ONE OF THE
THINGS THEY LEARNED TODAY IS
THE PRESIDENT IS ON THEIR SIDE, AND WON'T CALL OUT NAZIS.
THIS
IS WHAT WE HAVE SUNK TO.
IF YOU THINK THE PRESIDENT IS TAKING
HIS TIME ñ IMAGINE IF IT WAS A MUSLIM RADICAL?
DO YOU THINK
TRUMP WAITS TWO DAYS?
WHEN HE THINKS IT IS MUSLIMS HE WILL
TAKE CREDIT FOR IT.
WHEN IT COMES TO WHITE SUPREMACISTS, ALL
OF A SUDDEN HE CAN'T FIND A PHONE TO TWEAK FROM.
IN CASE YOU
WERE CONFUSED ABOUT THAT MESSAGE THE NAZIS WERE NOT.
NAZIS IN
AMERICA ARE THRILLED AND SAY THEY ARE GOING TO GO BIGGER THAN
CHARLOTTESVILLE.
AMONG THE MANY TERRIBLE EXCUSES IS FROM TOM
BOSSERT, A WHITE HOUSE HOME SECURITY ADVISOR.
HE SAID THIS.
WHAT I WOULD SAY IS THAT THE PRESIDENT NOT ONLY CONDEMNED THE
VIOLENCE AND STOOD UP AT A TIME AND A MOMENT THAT WAS NECESSARY
AND DID NOT DIGNIFY THE NAMES OF THESE GROUPS OF PEOPLE, BUT
RATHER ADDRESS THE FUNDAMENTAL ISSUE.
JAKE, WE NEED TO FOCUS ON THE REST OF HIS STATEMENT.
THE PRESIDENT DID NOT JUST CALL FOR HUMAN BEINGS TO RESPECT
ONE ANOTHER, WHICH IS HIS FUNDAMENTAL BARE MINIMUM,
BUT HE CALLED FOR IDEALLY AMERICANS TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
THE NEW EXCUSE IS WE DON'T WANT TO DIGNIFY THEM BY NAME ñ
YOU DON'T SEE THEIR NAMES WHEN THEY ARE TERRORISTS.
REALLY?
HERE'S DONALD TRUMP BACK IN NOVEMBER 2015.
BACK THEN YOU
HAVE TO SAY THEIR NAMES.
O IT IS MY SUPPORTERS AND VOTERS NOW,
NAZIS, THE KKK, AND WHITE SUPREMACIST ñ DON'T SAY THEIR
NAME THAT WOULD LEGITIMIZE THEM.
WINK.
IF YOU CAN'T SAY THE WORDS KKK FOR TWO WHOLE DAYS THEN MAYBE WE
SHOULD APPLY THE SAME STANDARD TO YOU THAT YOU MADE FOR OBAMA?
RESIGN IN DISGRACE BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE, YOU ARE
DISGRACEFUL.