Why does he refuse to condemn them?

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(10-02-2020, 06:10 PM)fredtoast Wrote: The event was 100% organized and publicized by white supremacist.  I didn't see any others there.  Got any pictures of them?

There must be since Trump knew about them, right?

Ever since Biden began focusing on "fine people on both sides", conservative talking heads have been ramping up to dishonestly portray the event as an innocent pro-statue protest that got infiltrated by some Neo Nazi's. It had been happening since 2017, but it has gained steam in the last year.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/09/donald-trump-and-his-allies-are-trying-to-rewrite-the-history-of-charlottesville/

Quote:Trump’s defenders have seized on that line to argue that it’s false to say Trump praised white supremacists. But that requires a willful ignorance of who organized the rally and who attended it. Unite the Right was not some spontaneous demonstration, nor was it a big-tent gathering meant to rope in a broad coalition. It was plainly advertised as a white supremacist rally, by and for neo-Nazis. It was supposed to be menacing. And it was the only rally in Charlottesville that day (other than the counterprotests). There was no second group. The Washington Post’s fact-checker noted that “The 207-page independent review commissioned by Charlottesville…makes no mention of peaceful pro-statue demonstrators.”

“I looked the night before,” Trump said at one point during his press conference. “If you look, there were people protesting very quietly the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee.” The rally “the night before” was the famous tiki-torch parade, in which attendees shouted “Jews will not replace us”—not the kind of thing you can find yourself unintentionally partaking in. And Unite the Right’s support of the Lee statue was mostly just a pretext. As Vox’s Jane Coaston noted, “it is fascinating just how little the statue of Lee, or honoring Confederate veterans, seemed to matter to the organizers and attendees of Unite the Right.” Instead, promotional materials for the rally described it as an attempt to, for instance, “end Jewish influence in America.”

https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-reporter-accuses-colleagues-of-sounding-like-a-white-supremacist-chat-room-2019-4

Leaked emails showed one Fox reporter calling out two others for defending attendees as free speech proponents, pointing out that the guy they were defending was on camera with a tiki torch during the "Jews will not replace us" chant.