Let’s look at what Trump actually said, shall we?
Chris Wallace: (
41:33)
You have repeatedly criticized the vice president for not specifically calling out Antifa and other left wing extremist groups. But are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia group and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these cities as we saw in Kenosha and as we’ve seen in Portland.
President Donald J. Trump: (
41:57)
Sure, I’m willing to do that.
Chris Wallace: (
41:59)
Are you prepared specifically to do it.
President Donald J. Trump: (
42:00)
I would say almost everything I see is from the left wing not from the right wing.
Chris Wallace: (
42:04)
But what are you saying?
President Donald J. Trump: (
42:06)
I’m willing to do anything. I want to see peace.
Full transcript of the first 2020 presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Now, just because he didn't utter the words he had previously, they want to say he didn’t condemn them. Who gets to choose? Why must he continually be asked to condemn once he already has?
His previous comments-
“Excuse me, they didn’t put themselves down as neo-Nazis, and you had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group – excuse me, excuse me, I saw the same pictures you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.”
After another question at that press conference, Trump became even more explicit:
“I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists because they should be condemned totally.”