President Donald Trump took questions from the press in a combative news conference on Tuesday.
READ THIS FUCKING INTERVIEW!
Some things to note:
Trump did not think that he took to long to release a statement on Charlottesville and his excuse was that he didn’t want to make a quick statement so he can get all the facts. But remember that he DID make a quick statement, and his most recent one that took so long was due to the backlash of the initial one. You know, the one where he blamed both sides and refused to call white supremacy by name.
He thinks that he is bringing the country together and fixing race relations because he’s “created over a million jobs since I’m president. The country is booming, the stock market is setting records. We have the highest employment numbers we’ve ever had in the history of our country. We’re doing record business. We have the highest levels of enthusiasm.“
He was asked several times if the event was terrorism to which he responded “Well, I think the driver of the car is a disgrace to himself, his family and this country, and that is … you can call it terrorism. You can call it murder. You can call it whatever you want. I would just call it as the fastest one to come up with a good verdict. That’s what I’d call it. Because there is a question. Is it murder? Is it terrorism? And then you get into legal semantics.” Ok then…
When asked about Steve Bannon Trump wanted everyone to know that Bannon is “a good man,” and “not a racist,” and that the press is very unfair to him.
Trump got defensive about the term “alt-right” and egged on the reporters to attempt to define it for him. He then blamed the “alt-left” for charging at the “alt-right” in Charlottesville and asked “Do they have any semblance of guilt.” He then said the group on one side was bad (neo-nazis) but the group on the other side was also bad, didn’t have a permit, and were “very violent.“
Trump then starts to DEFEND THE SIDE WITH NEO-NAZIS AND WHITE SUPREMACISTS! He goes on that "Not all of those people were white supremacists, by any stretch,” and they were simply there to protest the taking down of Robert E. Lee’s statue. When the reporter later tells Trump that the neo-nazis came to Charlottesville to do just that, Trump said “you have some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people on both sides.” He then said that there were many people on the side of the white supremacists who weren’t actually white supremacists and they are being treated “absolutely unfairly.”
“It looked like they had some rough, bad people: neo-Nazis, white nationalists, whatever you want to call them. But you had a lot of people in that group that were there to innocently protest.”
A reporter asked Trump outright “Do you support white nationalists, then?” As a response, Trump got defensive about George Washington being a slave owner and Thomas Jefferson being a slave owner, and asked if we’re going to start taking their statues down. He then said by taking the statues down, like Robert E. Lee’s, we are “changing history,” and “changing culture,” somehow.
When asked if he is going to visit Charlottesville and help heal the nation, Trump went on to talk about his property in the town. “I own a house in Charlottesville. Does anyone know I own a house in Charlottesville? Oh, boy, it’s going to be- it’s in Charlottesville, you’ll see. It’s a- it is the winery” … “I own- I own actually one of the largest wineries in the United States that’s in Charlottesville.” Yep…
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