Charlottesville Mayor Attacks Trump’s Repeat Failure To Denounce White Supremacists

by | Aug 14, 2017 | News | 0 comments

We all know Trump was a big part of allowing white supremacists to feel legitimate in their hate and now after a weekend of awful events this is ever more apparent. A terrorist attack took place, by a white man using the same tactics as Isis have been in Europe.

Michael Signer, the mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia, had a few choice words for Donald Trump, he said on Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union”:

“Look at the campaign he ran. Look at the intentional courting … on the one hand, of all of these white supremacists, white nationalist groups,”

“And then look on the other hand at the repeated failure to step up and condemn, denounce, silence, put to bed, all of those different efforts just like we saw yesterday. This is not hard,”

“There are two words that need to be said over and over again ― domestic terrorism and white supremacy,”

Then on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” He said the views of “anti-Semites, racists, Aryans, Nazis,” along with KKK members had been kept “in the shadows.” before.

He said, “they’ve been given a key and a reason to come into the light.”

He went on:

“There’s an old saying, when you dance with the devil, the devil changes you,”

“I think he made a choice in that campaign, a very regrettable one, to really go to people’s prejudices, to go to the gutter.”

“People are dying and I do think it is now on the president and on all of us to say, enough is enough. This movement has run its course.”

Three people died on Saturday in Charlottesville.

Even after this Trump had the audacity to say “hatred, bigotry and violence” was seen on “many sides.”.

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