Why does he refuse to condemn them?

[*PhilHos*]

(10-13-2020, 03:09 PM)fredtoast Wrote: That is what he said. 

No, it's not. Not without an insane amount of word twisting. 

(10-13-2020, 03:09 PM)fredtoast Wrote: It may not be a direct word-for-word quote (and I don't think I ever used quotation marks to indicate that

Then you think wrong:

(10-05-2020, 06:33 PM)fredtoast Wrote: For example last week he told a group of his supporters that "We have superior genes".

(10-13-2020, 03:09 PM)fredtoast Wrote: If he was talking about the Somalian immigrants in Minnesota having "good genes" he would not have talked shit about them, and the white crowd he was addressing would not have booed when he mentioned them. Trump NEVER intended to suggest that he was "not so different" from the people living in Minnesota who immigrated there from Somalia.  Anyone who denies that deserves a gold metal in "mental gymnastics".

The only mental gymnastics is someone taking a comment where Trump is telling a crowd they look good and taking that to mean that white people have superior genes.