When debate moderator Chris Wallace asked President Trump to condemn white supremacists, he instead called on the Proud Boys hate group to 'stand back and stand by!'
The question that elicited Trump’s response about the Proud Boys came during a portion of the debate on the racial disquiet that has been sweeping America since theat the hands of police in Minneapolis. Moderator Chris Wallace, of Fox News, noted that Trump had repeatedly criticized former Vice President Joe Biden for failing to condemn left-wing extremist groups like antifa.
Wallace asked Trump: “Are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these cities . . . ?” Trump suggested he needed to be given a name of a group to condemn. Biden, joining Wallace in demanding an answer, suggested “Proud Boys.”Advertisement“Standing by sir,”“Trump basically said to go f - - - them up! This makes me so happy,” another prominent Proud Boy wrote on the same site.
The sort of violent confrontation that Trump seemed to welcome has been playing out on the streets of some American cities, including Portland, Ore., where over the weekend hundreds, instead of an anticipated thousands of right-wing activists, turned out in support of the Proud Boys. The organization is part of a constellation of right- and left-wing extremist factions that have taken advantage of peaceful protests against racial injustice to further their aims.
Early this month, Proud Boys members, who refer to themselves as “Western chauvinists,” accompanied a caravan of Trump supporters driving from Portland to Oregon’s capitol of Salem. Members of the group said they were providing security to protect Trump supporters from violent leftists.Jo Ann Hardesty, who last year became the first black woman to serve on Portland’s City Council, blamed the right-wing extremists for much of her city’s unrest.
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