He didn’t during the debate and gave a half-hearted attempt today after he was widely criticized. Trump is a white supremacist and he doesn’t want to alienate his cult.
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— 1100 Pennsylvania (@1100Penn) October 13, 2020
Doral confab featured Proud Boys leader
Two weeks after @realdonaldtrump told the hate group to "stand by," its head praised the president before his customers.https://t.co/5fIGHoPzkC
NEW: Trump tried to walk back his refusal to outright condemn a far right facist group during his debate with Biden, but the inflammatory moment was far from the first time the president failed to denounce white supremacists or advanced racist ideas https://t.co/7WSUIg1Sj6
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) September 30, 2020
Over and over, Trump has made clear that he doesn't care about the threat white supremacy poses to the country, and that isn't going to change.https://t.co/hxp1FBuusY
— Philip Bump (@pbump) September 30, 2020
Proud Boys leader Joe Biggs saw Trump’s remarks at last night's debate as permission to “fuck” up the group’s foes.
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 30, 2020
On no planet is this good.https://t.co/Gw8tBmTHt3
Trump to reporters at the White House today: "I don’t know who the Proud Boys are" He added: "Whoever they are they have to stand down. Let law enforcement do their work…Antifa is a real problem because the problem is on the left" via @dsupervilleap
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) September 30, 2020
The idea that this genie gets put back in the bottle is quite something, but this will be what his aides point to for the Tim Scotts who say he needed to clarify https://t.co/wxdcgsbqwP
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 30, 2020
NEW with @ChristopherJM: The Proud Boys got a bunch of new followers after Trump said to "stand by." Some of the Telegram channels we monitor saw an influx of 600-700 people.
— Jane Lytvynenko (@JaneLytv) September 30, 2020
More:https://t.co/T4t3lzTy1y
Trump tries to backtrack on his remark about the Proud Boys, but the far-right group is already celebrating his comments @elspethreeve reports pic.twitter.com/8nN6KUVuNn
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) September 30, 2020
“This is the best recruiting tool that they could have ever asked for,” @oneunderscore__ says of the Proud Boys, discussing Pres. Trump’s debate callout of the far-right extremist group. “They’ve made t-shirts that say ‘stand back and stand by.'”https://t.co/o4voSfFvnj
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 30, 2020
"Just so you understand, I don't know anything about David Duke, OK? I don't know anything about what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists." — Trump, February 2016 https://t.co/zp3r0oFWlK
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) September 30, 2020
Breaking: Trump says he does not know who the Proud Boys are, but they should stand down and let law enforcement do its work. (This is a shift in language from last night.) pic.twitter.com/7G1cyHbMuO
— Jeff Mason (@jeffmason1) September 30, 2020
This is the group that Trump is waiting to deploy.
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) September 30, 2020
It also is amazing to me that Trump is using hypothetical scenarios and boogeymen to scare white people into voting people and black people face tangible, real threats all the time. If anyone should be scared, it’s us. https://t.co/EpNfyT3BGx
Within 60 minutes the neofascist White Supremacist Proud Boys — a biker gang without the bikes — had new shoulder patches designed with Trump’s words “Stand Back and Stand By.” Just as Trump intended.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) September 30, 2020
I think this is the bottom line here https://t.co/Pt8q2v6llv
— josie duffy rice (is on leave) (@jduffyrice) September 30, 2020
President Trump hesitated to condemn white supremacists during repeated questioning during the debate, telling the far-right Proud Boys group to "stand back and stand by."
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) September 30, 2020
Here's the background:
https://t.co/dKF54aEPxK#Debates2020 pic.twitter.com/QdjFADGKKZ
Donald Trump has a loooooooong history of refusing to condemn white supremacist and hate groupshttps://t.co/Ib4ZgVatJJ pic.twitter.com/rM3X6Sw2ZI
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) September 30, 2020
Proud Boys celebrate Trump’s ‘stand by’ remark about them at the debate. – The New York Times https://t.co/zJ3U3Zo1eG
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) September 30, 2020
Trump is now their leader. Wow. https://t.co/WPW2xueyz5
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) September 30, 2020
CNN anchor Jake Tapper booted Trump’s campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh after the Trump flack continued to deflect when pressed on the president’s refusal to condemn white supremacists https://t.co/UWz6HvtNid
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 30, 2020
It appears that Gavin McInnes, founder of the Proud Boys, is here at Walter Reed Medical Center— supporters on site starting chanting “Gavin! Gavin!” as he arrived. Trump’s shoutout to the group during the debate bolstered the Proud Boys: https://t.co/gGx7QdtCQM pic.twitter.com/vtamSSPQzR
— DJ Judd (@DJJudd) October 3, 2020
Lindsey Graham photographed with leader of white nationalist group Proud Boys https://t.co/Hl5CfxGzUd via @Yahoo
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) October 3, 2020
Sad! 