Quote:
Originally Posted by uke_master
Except he DID answer in the affirmative. When Wallace asked him to disavow white supremacists he AGREED and said he had no problem doing that. When Wallace asked him specifically about the Proud Boys asking the to stand down trump AGREED and asked them to do that. Oh he confused the words a bit, "stand by" vs "stand down", and tried to pivot off the point to an attack line (Wallace wanted to draw the distinction between agreeing to disavow white supremcists and rephrasing that statement as an affirmation) but the point is that the right doesn't look at this and think he was trying to doge condemning white supremacists. THey say the media response here and think it is overblown as trump was clearly not on the side of the white supremcists, he just didn't use the exact phraseology wallace was trying to get out of him.
WALLACE: “Are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia groups…”
TRUMP: “Sure…”
WALLACE: “And to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these cities as we saw in Kenosha, and as we’ve seen in Portland”
TRUMP: “Sure, I’m prepared to do it, but I would say almost everything I see is from the left-wing not from the right-wing. I’m willing to do anything, I want to see peace…”
WALLACE: “Then do it, sir.”
BIDEN: “Do it, say it.”
TRUMP: “What do you want to call them? Give me a name.”
WALLACE: “White supremacists and right-wing militias”
BIDEN: “Proud Boys”
Trump: “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by. But I’ll tell you what, somebody’s got to do something about Antifa and the left.”
Theres a massive difference between being willing to do something and actually doing it.