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48 Hours Later, Trump Finally Denounces White Supremacists
Well, you know what they say about condemning the Klan and Nazis: "better late than never." [Sarcasm alert]
After nearly 48 hours of non-stop bad press and relentless scolding from politicians on both sides of the aisle, Donald Trump decided on Monday afternoon that maybe it would be a good idea to explicitly acknowledge the fact that the KKK and neo-Nazis are folks who don't generally have the best interest of the nation at heart.
Here's what he said at a hastily-put-together presser:
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At least he did it, though maybe only because someone told him he’d seem like a hypocrite after repeatedly calling out Obama for not specifically mentioning radical Islam.
The only thing this statement gives Trump – is what everyone already knows – he is ever the angling opportunist and he isn’t going to do the right thing, until his very survival depends on it. What I will give Trump is the responsibility for three people dying this weekend because he was afraid to lose the Nazi portion of his base – what apparently is his only base now – and until he was forced to by the Republican Congressmen who are repeatedly changing their soiled underwear this week as their constituents make them aware that while they may be staunch conservatives – Trump’s Nazi enabling behavior is one Nazi Reich too far.