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Friday 02 October 2020
In the television duel against Joe Biden, Donald Trump is asked if he condemns the racist ideology of white Americans, White Supremacy. The president’s answer is ambiguous. Now Trump is struggling to clarify.
US President Donald Trump has spoken out against right-wing extremist groups amid mounting pressure. “I’ve said it many times, and let me make it clear again: I condemn the KKK (Ku Klux Klan), I condemn all white supremacists,” Trump said on Fox News Thursday night before his corona infection became known. has been. The term “white supremacy” describes the ideology of white supremacy.
In recent days, journalists had failed to get Trump to condemn these movements in a complete and unequivocal sentence, in which he explicitly described them as such. Trump complained that he could say it a hundred times and it still wasn’t enough for the media.
Far-right groups were raised in the first television debate with Trump’s challenger, Joe Biden, on Tuesday. Moderator Chris Wallace asked Trump if he would be willing to condemn groups and militias whose views include white supremacy. Trump then asked, “Who should I judge?” Biden threw the correct group name “Proud Boys” into the room.
“I don’t know much about the Proud Boys”
Trump then told the Proud Boys that they should hold back and be ready (“back off and wait”). He left open what he meant by “be prepared.” On Wednesday, Trump claimed not to know who the Proud Boys were. On Thursday he said: “I condemn the Proud Boys. I don’t know much about the Proud Boys, almost nothing, but I condemn it.”
Critics repeatedly accuse Trump of not delineating himself clearly enough from right-wing extremist groups. His refusal to do so clearly in the television duel with Joe Biden drew unusual criticism from several prominent Republicans. Trump’s spokeswoman, Kayleigh McEnany, had defended him.
