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News: 'I condemn them': Trump denounces 'alt-right' movement
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'I condemn them': Trump denounces 'alt-right' movement
'I condemn them': Trump denounces 'alt-right' movement's racist wing and defends top adviser 'unfairly' linked to them during New York Times meeting
- Donald Trump disavowed the racist wing of the 'alt-right' movement
- He was meeting with a group of reporters from The New York Times
- President-elect also defended top adviser Steve Bannon
- Bannon has been pilloried with claims of a connection, through Breitbart News, to white nationalists who read the website
- Bannon clarified last week that Breitbart is a home for alt-right proponents 'who are anti-globalists, very nationalist, terribly anti-establishment'
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Donald Trump flatly disavowed the white supremacist wing of the 'alt-right' movement on Tuesday, telling a room full of New York Times journalists and executives that 'I condemn them. I disavow, and I condemn.'
The president-elect defended his chief strategist and senior adviser at the same time, saying Steve Bannon has been unfairly portrayed as a vehicle for white supremacists to influence the incoming administration.
'I've known Steve Bannon a long time. If I thought he was a racist, or "alt-right" or any of the things, the terms we could use, I wouldn't even think about hiring him,' he said.
A handful of Times reporters tweeted direct quotes from Trump while the meeting was underway
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'It's not a group I want to energize,' Trump said of about 200 white supremacists who held a meeting in Washington over the weekend under the banner of the alt-right.
'And if they are energized I want to look into it and find out why.'
Asked point-blank if he believes he had a hand in energizing them, Trump replied: 'I don’t think so.'
A new round of questions about Trump's purported relationship with the alt-right emerged after video and photos surfaced showing event participants praising him and also using Nazi terms and salutes.
National Policy Institute director Richard Spencer, the white nationalist who organized the meeting, reportedly told his followers: 'Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory.'
Trump's transition team had already released a statement on the president-elect's behalf distancing himself from Spencer's group.
'President-elect Trump has continued to denounce racism of any kind and he elected because he will be a leader for every American,' spokesman Bryan Lanza said.
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saying the bare minimum, okay.
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nnn not him denouncing his most avid supporters after using them as the basis for his campaign for nearly a year alt-righters are FUMING right now
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Does he condemn The Trump Foundation as well?
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Sure, Jan.
Honestly, he probably just used them to get elected. I don't think he really wants to have any affiliation with them now.
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Trump is a ****ing narcissist democrat
But he sees the stupidity in Americans and has to appease to them lol
He looks shocked to be president
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Meanwhile he's appointing that support them. Including his running mate BYE
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Poor alt right. Trump played them and now has no use for them.
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Originally posted by 6_INCH_HEELS
Sure, Jan.
Honestly, he probably just used them to get elected. I don't think he really wants to have any affiliation with them now.
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Agree. Unfortunately for ha, it's impossible to separate from them now. He is THE face of the alt-right, racist movement in America right now. He is their king, and he is literally the #1 reason they are feeling so empowered right now. He can keep denying it all he wants, it won't change the damage caused by his hurtful rhetoric.
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6 words? Girl write a speech about equality, acceptance and love, and drag the alt right movement for FILTH. Only then I will be happy!
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then kick out steve bannon wtf
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The president-elect defended his chief strategist and senior adviser at the same time, saying Steve Bannon has been unfairly portrayed as a vehicle for white supremacists to influence the incoming administration.
'I've known Steve Bannon a long time. If I thought he was a racist, or "alt-right" or any of the things, the terms we could use, I wouldn't even think about hiring him,' he said.
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Just like he said Pence is a good man, yeah right
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Just saying "I condemn" sounds very reluctant, just like last time he had to disavow white supremacists. He's scared the ghost of his KKK father is watching him
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He can say it, but his actions, his policies, and his administration speaks louder than words.
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but he's still going thru with Steve Bannon's appointment? condemn cancelled
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'And if they are energized I want to look into it and find out why.'
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This says more about his character than anything. You need to know why white supremacists are how they are and why for some odd strange reason they are gravitating to your campaign and presidency? Maybe it's YOUR MESSAGE AND POLICIES, Mr. Trump.
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It takes him 5 seconds to condemn the cast of Hamilton, and days to condemn this.
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Originally posted by 6_INCH_HEELS
Sure, Jan.
Honestly, he probably just used them to get elected. I don't think he really wants to have any affiliation with them now.
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Of course he used them to get elected, just like he used all of the dumb white voters from the center of the US by promising to jail HRC and to build a wall at the US-MX border. Trump hates a liberal approach to politics and governing, but he is not, in any shape or form, a Republican, and never has been. I suspect Bannon uses the same tactics with Breitbart to milk alt-right voters of their money.
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