EARLIER THIS WEEK WE COVERED A STORY REGARDING CONGRESS
PASSING A BILL THAT URGED DONALD TRUMP TO CONDEMN WHITE
SUPREMACISTS IN THE COUNTRY.
INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, TODAY DONALD TRUMP DECIDED TO DOUBLE
DOWN ON STATEMENTS THAT HE MADE ACQUAINTING ANTIFA OR
COUNTER PROTESTERS DURING THE CHARLOTTESVILLE RALLY TO
THOSE WHITE SUPREMACIST THAT HE HAS BEEN ASKED TO CONDEMN.
HE WAS SPEAKING TO SENATOR TIM SCOTT OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
HE IS THE ONLY BLACK REPUBLICAN SENATOR AND HE DOES NOT
AGREE WITH DONALD TRUMP EQUATING THE TWO SIDES AND SO HE WANTED
TO KIND OF CONFRONT HIM ABOUT IT AND UNFORTUNATELY, AGAIN,
DONALD TRUMP DECIDED TO DOUBLE DOWN ON HIS PREVIOUS STATEMENTS.
LET ME TELL YOU WHAT THE STATEMENTS WERE.
HE SAID:
HE USED THE WORD ADVENT.
I'M PROUD OF HIM.
HE CONTINUED TO SAY:
NOTE THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVEN'T
SAID THAT.
BREITBART AND OTHER WHITE NATIONALISTS HAVE SAID THAT
SINCE YOU ARE A WHITE NATIONALIST, UBER AND OTHER
WHITE NATIONALIST CRAP AND SHOCKINGLY ENOUGH, THEY
AGREE WITH YOU THAT WHITE SUPREMACY IS AWESOME.
HE IS LIKE YOU KNOW OTHER PEOPLE DON'T LIKE ANTIFA EITHER,
MY RIGHT-WING FRIENDS AT.
AS TIM SCOTT THE REPUBLICAN FROM SOUTH CAROLINA POINTED OUT,
IN THE CASE OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, WHAT HAPPENED WAS A
NORMATIVELY CLEAR.
THERE WERE GUYS TWEETING CHANCING NAZI CHANCE LIKE
ONE SOIL AND THE JEWS WILL NOT REPLACE US AND THEY DID THE
EQUIVALENT OF THE KLAN RALLY WITH THE TORCHES JUST LIKE
THE CLAIM USED TO DO IN THE SOUTH AND THEN THEY RAN
OVER A COUNTER PROTESTER AND MURDERED HER.
AT LEAST THE GUY WHO WAS CHARGED DID AND HE WAS AN AVOWED
NEO-NAZI.
THAT WASN'T IS NOT BOTH SIDES DO IT.
NOT REMOTELY.
IT IS REALLY A SIMPLE CASE AS YOU CAN POSSIBLY HAD.
IF YOU CAN'T CONDEMN PEOPLE CHANCING NOT TO CHANCE WITH CLAN
TORCHES MURDERING PEOPLE IN AMERICA AND YOU HAVE TO SAY NO,
EQUALLY GUILTY, BOTH SIDES DO IT, THERE'S SOMETHING WE THING
WRONG WITH YOU BUT YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS WHO YOU REALLY
THINK THERE'S NOTHING WRONG AT ALL.
WE ARE WHITE NATIONALIST THAT WE DO THIS AND THEN WE DON'T
LIKE THE OTHER GUYS WHO ARE ANTIFASCIST.
IT'S AMAZING.
HE WILL CONTINUE DOUBLING DOWN.
IT IS WHAT IT IS.
HE IS NOT GOING TO CHANGE HIS MIND ABOUT THAT FOR ANYONE ELSE
WHO LIKES TO EQUATE THE TWO, YOU ARE CALLING ANTIFA, WHICH BY
THE WAY, IN SOME CASES DOESN'T BEHAVE THE WAY THAT IT SHOULD.
I THINK AT SOME CASES THEY DO THEIR CRITICISM WHEN THINGS
GET PHYSICAL OR VIOLENT, ADVOCATE WHAT THE GROUP IS.
THEY DESERVE CRITICISM.
DON'T GET VIOLET YOU ARE BEING COUNTERPRODUCTIVE.
HOWEVER, AGAIN TO QUIT EQUATE THOSE TWO SIDES ARE SO
CREDIBLY RIDICULOUS WHEN ONE SIDE MURDERED SOMEONE AND
THE OTHER SIDE DID NOT.
AND BY THE WAY, I THINK VIOLENCE IN THE NAME OF ANTI-FASCISM'S
IS NOT A GREAT IDEA AND I KNOW THEY THINK THAT IT IS.
THEY ARE FASCISTS, WE HAVE FIVE FIRE WITH FIRE.
HATRED ONLY BRINGS MORE HATRED.
WE CAN GET INTO QUOTING DIFFERENT SIDES HERE, BUT
FASCISTS AND ANTIFASCIST ARE NOT EQUAL.
ONE SIDE IS IN FAVOR OF FASCISM, THE OTHER SIDE IS OPPOSED TO IT.
BUT FORGOT LIKE CHUM, THAT ACTUALLY IS 50-50.
THEY LIKE FASCISM WAS, NON-FASCISM, I DON'T KNOWÖ
A QUESTION FOR THEM.
THAT IS WHY KEEP SAYING IT.
THOUGH THE REASON HE SAYS IT IS BECAUSE HE CAN'T HELP HIMSELF.
HE IS A REALLY DUMB GUY AND HE DOESN'T KNOW THAT THIS
CAUSES POLITICAL DAMAGE.
DOESN'T THE?
YES, DEMOCRATS JUST WON A STATE RACE IN OKLAHOMA BY 20 POINTS.
THEY HAD LOST THE SAME RACE JUST A LITTLE WHILE AGO BY 20 POINTS.
IT'S A 40 POINT SWING IN THE MIDDLE OF OKLAHOMA.
IT CAUSES DAMAGE.
BUT HE THINKS, I DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT
THAT ALL THE WHITE NATIONALISTS AROUND ME TOTALLY AGREE,
ANTIFASCIST ARE TERRIBLE.
BOTH SIDES DO IT.
AND HE CAN'T HELP HIMSELF.
HE DOUBLES DOWN, HE KEEPS ON DIGGING BECAUSE HE IS NOT
ENOUGH TO KNOW WHEN TO NOT TAKE THE
YESTERDAY WE DID THE STORY OF THE ESPN HOST WHO MADE SOME
STATEMENTS ON TWITTER ABOUT HOW TRUMP IS A WHITE SUPREMACIST.
SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS RESPONDED BACK SAYING IT WAS OUTRAGEOUS
AND A FIREABLE OFFENSE BUT WHAT DO YOU THINK HE IS?
IF YOU CANNOT TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT THE PRESIDENT THEN
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
AND ALSO, ISN'T THAT THE TYPE OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH THAT YOU
GUYS ARE SAYING YOU WANT TO PROTECT?
AREN'T YOU SAYING THAT WE SHOULDN'T FIRE PEOPLE SIMPLY
BECAUSE
YOU DISAGREE WITH THEM?
THAT ONLY APPLIES TO PEOPLE WHO SPEW CONSERVATIVE HATE?