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Chris Wallace: “Are you willing, tonight, to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and say they need to withdraw …”
Trump: “Proud guys, stand back and wait! But I’ll tell you one thing, someone has to do something about Antifa and the left.” pic.twitter.com/4vrPocKzcu
– Axios (@axios) September 30, 2020
US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump refused to explicitly condemn white supremacists and militant groups during the presidential debate in the early hours of this morning.
In an irritating debate with Democratic nominee Joe Biden, Trump said “Proud guys, stand back and wait” when answering a question on the subject from moderator Chris Wallace.
Wallace asked him: “Are you willing tonight to condemn the white supremacists and militia groups and say that they should stand down and not increase the violence in several of these cities, as we saw in Kenosha and as we have seen in Portland? “
Trump responded that he was “prepared to do that,” but added that “almost everything I see is left, not right.”
“I am willing to do anything. I want to see peace. “
When pressed further, Trump said: “What do you want to call them? Give me a name. Give me a name? “
Finally, he said: “Proud guys: stand back and wait, but I’ll tell you something, someone has to do something with Antifa and the left because this is not a right wing problem… This is a left wing problem. “
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Biden chimed in that Antifa was “an idea, not an organization,” but Trump fired him. The former vice president also stated during the debate that the president was sowing racial division in the United States in recent months. This was also denied by Trump.
The Proud Boys are a far-right group that recently held a rally in Portland. The city in the western state of Oregon has been experiencing months of rioting sparked by the murder of unarmed black man George Floyd in Minneapolis.
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