President Donald Trump tried to walk back his shoutout to the far-right extremist group known as the Proud Boys on Wednesday by claiming he doesn’t know who they are–despite calling on them by name and telling them to “stand by” the night before.
“They just brought me coffee a few times.”
No, it’s true, he’s often denounced such groups. Always after getting yelled at, but often.
“But do you denounce [white supremacists]?” a reporter pressed.
“I’ve always denounced any form, any form, any form of any of that,” Trump replied…
“… except when it’s espoused by groups that I’ve never heard of before.”
He can’t even say “white supremacists” (maybe it’s that word supremacist–too hard to pronounce!). He literally will not say “I denounce white supremacists.” He hems and haws, “any form of that” … of WHAT? Say it. Nope. Not gonna. Can’t make him.
His playbook only has one page.
He’s seriously damaged his campaign through that one comment last night, as well as how unpresidential he was. He desperately needs to walk it back, but odds are the damage is done. Good thing, we all got a picture of a Trump second term last night, where he’ll turn even more dictatorial.
Not surprising at all
And very large type.
Who’s looking forward to him retrospectively deciding that he ‘didn’t know’ anyone in the White House and in fact ‘paid very little attention’ to the Presidency, just doing it as a favour to America during downtime from being the bigliest entrepreneur ever?
I’m looking forward to him being wiped off the face of the earth as soon as possible. I keep hoping for a medical event.
He is so full of shit. The country will be sooo much better off when he has left this Veil of Tears for Hell.
Trump is full of shit. If he had no idea who the Proud Boys were, he wouldn’t be specific in telling them to “…stand down and let law enforcement take the lead.” He knows precisely that they provoke public confrontations with antifa and people of color in order to justify committing violence on them.
So Billy Barr never invited Fat Nixon to any of his Proud Boy recruiting drives?
Doesn’t much matter what he says today. The clips are out there, and he created his own disaster.
New Ipsos Debate Poll from 538, updated this afternoon at 1:38:
and it is follow the dots.
Dead man says what?
You’re right. He is a dead man walking, and if he goes into another debate, it will only get worse. He’ll be deader than dead.
Covfefe