Judge John Wilson (ret.) provided this article exclusively to the New York Analysis of Policy and Government.
Did Trump praise white supremacists as “fine people?” Here is what he actually said to a reporter on August 15, 2017 –
“Trump: ‘Yes, I think there’s blame on both sides. If you look at both sides — I think there’s blame on both sides. And I have no doubt about it, and you don’t have any doubt about it either. And if you reported it accurately, you would say.’
Reporter: ‘The neo-Nazis started this. They showed up in Charlottesville to protest –‘
Trump: ‘Excuse me, excuse me. They didn’t put themselves — and you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides.'”
The President expanded on his answer in the same interview:
“(Y)ou had people — and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists — because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists. Okay? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly. Now, in the other group also, you had some fine people. But you also had troublemakers, and you see them come with the black outfits and with the helmets, and with the baseball bats. You had a lot of bad people in the other group.”
To quote Dennis Prager in Real Clear Politics, “(t)he president of the United States, Donald Trump, never said there were ‘fine’ Nazis or Ku Klux Klansmen… I cannot think of a lie of such significance that was held as truth by so many Americans, by every leading politician of one of the two major political parties and disseminated by virtually the entire media… (a)side from the clear evidence that the president never called Nazis ‘very fine people,’ isn’t the very idea preposterous? Trump has a Jewish daughter, a Jewish son-in-law and Jewish grandchildren. Nazis want Jews dead. How do all the New York Times columnists, CNN anchors and correspondents and Democratic officeholders who say the president called Nazis fine people and who believe the president is a white supremacist reconcile those two facts? They don’t — because they can’t, and because they can get away with saying anything they want. When a nation’s media and one of the two dominant parties are in lockstep, they can lie all they want.”
Now, the Democrats and their media mouthpieces have doubled down on the lie.
In the first debate between President Trump and former Vice President Biden, moderator Chris Wallace asked President Trump (and not former VP Biden) if he would “condemn white supremacist and militant groups.” President Trump answered “sure,” but apparently not satisfied, Chris Wallace continued:
“WALLACE: ‘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’
TRUMP: ‘Sure, I’m prepared to do it, but I would say almost everything I see is from the left-wing not from the right-wing. I’m willing to do anything, I want to see peace…’
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BIDEN: ‘Do it, say it.’
TRUMP: ‘What do you want to call them? Give me a name.’
WALLACE: ‘White supremacists and right-wing militias’
BIDEN: ‘Proud Boys’
Trump: ‘Proud Boys, stand back and stand by. But I’ll tell you what, somebody’s got to do something about Antifa and the left.’”
Completely ignoring Trump’s initial, unequivocal answer, both Moderator Wallace and Candidate Biden suggested a group to condemn. When the President didn’t do so as plainly as his first answer, the media took this as further proof of their position. According to CBS News, “President Trump on Tuesday refused to unequivocally condemn white supremacists and far-right groups who have respondedto ongoing protests against police brutality and racial injustice, instead pinning the blame for violent clashes on the ‘left wing.'”
Yet, are the Proud Boys a racist group?
On their website, the group proudly proclaims “We do not discriminate based upon race or sexual orientation/preference.” The leader of the group, Cuban-American Enrique Tarrio, “has publicly denounced racism and white supremacy after detractors began conflating them with white supremacists in the wake of the first presidential debate.” But regardless of these public positions, “’Let’s face it, if … you have anything other than a leftist opinion and point of view, you’re a white supremacist — doesn’t matter what color skin you have’”… said a Proud Boy who identified himself as UK2USAPatriot, one of a handful of Proud Boys who gathered with Trump supporters outside an invitation-only appearance by the president at The Villages (Florida) on Oct. 3.”
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Poor Boys are a hate group. However, that same group calls President Trump’s move to label Antifa a terrorist organization, “an unprecedented and alarming development with significant implications for the civil liberties of U.S. citizens, particularly those of color, who are already disproportionately policed.”
And so, the lies continue.
Is President Trump a racist? I have no insight into his mind. But from all the evidence presented here, the answer must be “not established.” This answer would be good enough in any court of law to acquit any criminal defendant. But in the court controlled by the media, even an unequivocal answer by the President is not enough.
Illustration: Robert Byrd official Congressional Photo