Twitter suspends Project Veritas
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If the standard for getting banned is deceptive editing, then every newspaper, media company, and journalist that has tweeted a video of Trump saying “there were fine people on both sides”, claiming he is referring to neo nazis as “fine people”, without showing the subsequent “and I’m not taking about the neo nazis because they should be totally condemned” should also be banned. That list will also include most Democrat elected officials and some Republicans too.
But as usual, his response to a hate crime was to paint it as: there were violent people on both sides and good people on both sides. Which implicitly means, there is blame to go around and I am not going to condemn any one side more than the other.
When what people wanted to hear was that this whole tiki torch parade with confederate flags and other hate symbols mixed in was a terrible representation of our country and we need to stop the hate.
"Good people on both sides" is just an easy way to sum up his inability to call out hate without excusing it.
And regarding the good people that were there, if I'm a good person and I am in a crowd that starts waving hate flags and chanting, "the Jews will not replace us". You can bet I am going to be gone from that place as quickly as possible.
Exactly that has been repeatedly claimed, even by the current President.
> But as usual, his response to a hate crime was to paint it as: there were violent people on both sides and good people on both sides. Which implicitly means, there is blame to go around and I am not going to condemn any one side more than the other.
That’s not what he said at all. He was referring to the debate on unilaterally tearing down statues without any process or forum.
And after what happened in 2020 with nut jobs tearing down statues of Lincoln I’d say he was right.
Someone had just been killed and people were looking for justice, and his response was "There are fine people on both sides." It was a weak, flaccid, prevarication when people were looking for actual leadership.
He was too cowardly to say anything more forceful because he knew it would cause him to lose standing with some of his supporters, so he tried to weasel out of it. It was a moment that spoke volumes about what he truly values, and THAT is why people were angry.