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How is Biden’s reaction not unmistakably worse than Trump’s?
"I think it’s time for a little trip down memory lane, don’t you?
"The date was August 14, 2017, and Donald Trump was holding a press conference a couple of days after a civil disturbance in Charlottesville, Virginia, had turned deadly.
"In Charlottesville, the local Hard Left-dominated city council had opted to defenestrate a historical landmark, that being a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee in a prominent place in town. A protest was planned and permitted for those critics of tearing the statue down to express their opinion, and attaching themselves to that protest was a group of alt-right agitators who held a tiki torch parade through Charlottesville the night before.
"Counterprotestors, including Antifa and Black Lives Matter agitators, then turned the demonstration over the Lee statue into a melee, and one of the alt-right “neo-Nazis” ended up running over a leftist demonstrator in a car.
"Charlottesville was thus elevated just below the status of 9/11 in the mainstream media lexicon, and Trump was battered for waiting two days before making a statement. Trump defended himself by saying he wanted to know and understand all the facts around Charlottesville before he weighed in.
"Then there was this exchange at the press conference:
"Trump: Okay, what about the alt-left that came charging at [indiscernible] – excuse me – what about the alt-left that came charging at the, as you say, the alt right? Do they have any semblance of guilt? What about this? What about the fact that they came charging – they came charging with clubs in their hands swinging clubs? Do they have any problem? I think they do. As far as I’m concerned, that was a horrible, horrible day. Wait a minute, I’m not finished. I’m not finished, fake news. That was a horrible day. I will tell you something. I watched those very closely, much more closely than you people watched it. And you had, you had a group on one side that was bad. And you had a group on the other side that was also very violent. And nobody wants to say that, but I’ll say it right now. You had a group – you had a group on the other side that came charging in without a permit, and they were very, very violent." . . .
. . ."I think it’s time for a little trip down memory lane, don’t you?
The date was August 14, 2017, and Donald Trump was holding a press conference a couple of days after a civil disturbance in Charlottesville, Virginia, had turned deadly.
"In Charlottesville, the local Hard Left-dominated city council had opted to defenestrate a historical landmark, that being a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee in a prominent place in town. A protest was planned and permitted for those critics of tearing the statue down to express their opinion, and attaching themselves to that protest was a group of alt-right agitators who held a tiki torch parade through Charlottesville the night before.
"Counterprotestors, including Antifa and Black Lives Matter agitators, then turned the demonstration over the Lee statue into a melee, and one of the alt-right “neo-Nazis” ended up running over a leftist demonstrator in a car.
"Charlottesville was thus elevated just below the status of 9/11 in the mainstream media lexicon, and Trump was battered for waiting two days before making a statement. Trump defended himself by saying he wanted to know and understand all the facts around Charlottesville before he weighed in." . . .
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