Fox and Friends defends white nationalists
Fox and Friends defends white nationalists
Not even his own daughter is sticking with Donald Trump, but Fox News is happy to carry his water.
Adam Peck
Aug 13, 2017, 1:04 pm
Even Donald Trump’s staunchest allies within the Republican Party are having a hard time sticking by his side as he continues to avoid condemning white supremacists and neo-Nazis after they murdered at least one counter-protester at their Charlottesville, Virginia rally on Saturday.
Luckily for the president, he’ll always have Fox & Friends. The panel didn’t skip a beat on Sunday morning defending Trump’s comments on Charlottesville.
“I think the president nailed it,” said co-host Pete Hegseth. “He condemned in the strongest possible terms hatred and bigotry on all sides as opposed to immediately picking a side out the gate.”
Indeed, Hegseth even went so far as to suggest that the white supremacists in Charlottesville may be making valid points. Though he claimed that their concerns do not justify “racial preferences or violence at all,” Hegseth said that “there’s always a grievance underneath it that it’s worth talking about.”
To be clear, Hegseth — and Trump — are equating neo-Nazis and white supremacists who believe that white men are genetically superior to non-whites, with a group of counter-protesters who turned up to oppose their message of hate and bigotry.
Top Republicans in Congress, world leaders, current and former administration officials, and even his own daughter have distanced themselves from Trump by issuing more definitive statements specifically condemning racism and white supremacy. But Fox and Friends aren’t alone in sticking with Trump.
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