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no, which imo is why he was hesitant to tell them to step down, not because he's racist. its an empty statement in one sense, that he has no power over them, so telling them to do anything is meaningless. but condemning them does have another important aspect, to show people that hes against them, and i think he forgets how important that is. notably, though, he DID condemn racists in the infamous "fine people" on both sides quote ... if you look at the full quote. absolutely shameful of biden to continue to misrepresent that against him.
i watched it with my daughter (11). twice shsaid that biden sounds crazy.
You should watch Trump's full comments across both days he spoke, and not just the August 16th comments.
August 11th was the literal Nazi rally where they chanted "jews will not replace us", organized by white supremacists, with only white supremacist speakers.
Trump refused to condemn white supremacists on his comments on the 12th and defended the protesters on the 11th (remember, these were literal white supremacists)
Over the next 3 days his own party, including Orrin Hatch and Marco Rubio, told Trump he needs to condemn white supremacists.
Then on August 16th Trump condemned white supremacists, but a bit after that he said there "were fine people on both sides".
The "fine people on both sides" was only seen as a walkback because he spent 3 days refusing to condemn white supremacists, and then when he did condemn them he immediately followed it up with "fine people on both sides".
So you're right that he technically did condemn white supremacists, but it was only after 3 days of pressure from his own party and it was shortly followed by a "both sides" comment.
This post was edited by Thor123422 on Sep 29 2020 09:24pm
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