At his rambling, combative, and self-destructive press conference Tuesday afternoon, President Trump asked a reporter to define what the term “alt-right” meant to her. When the reporter hesitated, Trump got irritated and mocked her. But considering that former Breitbart CEO Steve Bannon is a top adviser to the president, Trump knows damn well what alt-right means.
Wednesday morning on CNN, during a discussion of Trump’s bizarre press conference, Daily Beast editor John Avlon began by saying:
“Let’s talk about the history of this for a second. He’s quoted [Thomas] Jefferson and Washington with Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. One group of folks, however flawed, created our nation and the other two committed treason and 600,000 people died, OK? This is not a ‘jump on.’ We can have a debate about context and the role of statues and American historical memory, but that’s not what the president is interested in. His own aides — look at his chief of staff’s face yesterday. You saw a man who would have rather been on the Titanic!”
Cuomo then offered a perfect analogy which proved Trump’s blatant hypocrisy when it comes to what the president considers to be terrorism:
“Change the facts a little bit. Instead of these hateful white supremacists, you have ISIS marching in the streets and they were saying death to Americans. And a group of Americans got out there and it got ugly the same way it did here. Do you think the president of the United States would have been saying there’s problems on both sides? We all know the answer is, ‘no.'”
As for Trump wanting a definition for “alt-right,” Cuomo said Trump didn’t have to look far to find one:
“He wants to define it (terrorism) and call it out for what it is and overreach and overstretch the facts of this situation. But not here, not when it’s these groups. This is consistent from jump. Whether it was David Duke, the alt-right. He asked us to defend the alt-right — turn around and ask your adviser who they are. He gave them the outlet they never had before in the form of Breitbart which has shown exactly what it is with its silence in the last few days.”
We currently have a president who sympathizes with white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and the KKK. He makes excuses for their acts of terror. And on top of that, he may have also committed treason by selling us out to Russia. Do we need any other reasons to impeach this criminal?
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