Biden retweeted a picture of members of the far-right
group Proud Boys celebrating Trump’s remarks tonight, saying, “This. This is
Donald Trump’s America.”
Proud Boys
celebrate Trump's 'stand back and stand by' comment
The Proud
Boys are ecstatic tonight about getting mentioned in the debate tonight.
"Trump
basically said to go fuck them up! this makes me so happy," writes one
prominent Proud Boy.
During
tonight’s debate, Trump was asked to denounce white supremacist violence, weeks
after two anti-racist protesters were shot and killed in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Instead,
Trump told the far-right group Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by.”
Members of
the Proud Boys immediately celebrated the remark, saying they were “so happy”
that Trump “basically said to go fuck them up.”
The group also posted a picture of their logo with Trump’s “stand back and stand by” comment to social media.
Fact check: Far-right vs far-left violence
Asked too
disavow white supremacists, Trump said, “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by” –
which was, not quite a disavowal. The president added, “Nut I’ll tell you what,
somebody’s gotta do something about Antifa and the left because this is not a
right-wing problem, this is a left-wing problem.”
As my
colleague, Lois Beckett has reported: Anti-fascists have been linked to zero
murders in the past 25 years. She writes:
A new
database of nearly 900 politically motivated attacks and plots in the United
States since 1994 includes just one attack staged by an anti-fascist that led
to fatalities. In that case, the single person killed was the perpetrator.
Over the
same time period, American white supremacists and other rightwing extremists
have carried out attacks that left at least 329 victims dead, according to the
database.
Progressives have denounced Donald Trump’s comments on
the Proud Boys.
“Donald
Trump is a white supremacist,” wrote New York representative Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez. “People have been warning about this for a long time. They were
ridiculed, called hyperbolic & radical - not bc they were wrong, but bc
others couldn’t accept that our country elected a supremacist as President.”
Rashida
Tlaib, of Michigan, echoed: “An important reminder that while racism is being
debated, Donald Trump, a white supremacist, just told them to stand by. This
again shows he is dangerous.”
Belén Sisa,
the former Latino press secretary for Bernie Sanders, said, “When someone shows
you who they really are believe them.”
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