President Trump argues with NBC News’ Savannah Guthrie about white supremacy at Thursday night’s town hall.
We were supposed to as mentioned be watching you on a debate stage right now. We’re not doing that so let’s clear up a few things from the last one. You were asked point blank to denounce white supremacy. In the moment you didn’t. You asked some follow-up questions. Who specifically? A couple of days later on a different show–
TRUMP: Oh, you always do this.
GUTHRIE: — you denounced white supremacy.
TRUMP: No, you always do this.
GUTHRIE: My question to you is–
TRUMP: You’ve done this to me and everybody–
GUTHRIE: — why does it seem like–
TRUMP: I denounced white supremacy, OK?
GUTHRIE: You did two days layer.
TRUMP: I denounced white supremacy for years but you always do it. You always start off with a question.
GUTHRIE: Well–
TRUMP: You didn’t ask Joe Biden whether or not he denounces Antifa. I watched him on the same basic show with Lester Holt, and he was asking questions like Biden was a child.
GUTHRIE: Well — so, this is a little bit–
TRUMP: So, are you ready–
GUTHRIE: — of a dodge.
TRUMP: Are you listening? I denounce white supremacy.
GUTHRIE: OK.
TRUMP: What’s your next question?
GUTHRIE: Do you feel — it feels sometimes you’re hesitant to do so like you–
TRUMP: Hesitant?
GUTHRIE: — wait a beat.
TRUMP: Here we go again. Every time, in fact — but people came (ph), I’m sure they’ll ask you the white supremacy question. I denounce white supremacy.
GUTHRIE: OK.
TRUMP: And frankly, you want to know something, I denounce Antifa and I denounce these people on the left that are burning down our cities that are run by Democrats who don’t know–
GUTHRIE: All right. While we’re–
TRUMP: — what they’re doing.
GUTHRIE: — denouncing let me ask you about QAnon. It is this theory that Democrats are a satanic pedophile ring, and that you are the savior of that. Now can you just once and for all state that that is completely not true and that–
TRUMP: So, I only–
GUTHRIE: — this about QAnon —
TRUMP: Yes.
GUTHRIE: — in its entirety.
TRUMP: I know nothing about QAnon.
GUTHRIE: I just told you.
TRUMP: I know very little — you told me but what you tell me doesn’t necessarily make it fact. I hate to say that. I know nothing about it. I do know they are very much against pedophilia. They fight it very hard. But I know nothing about it.
GUTHRIE: They believe it is a satanic–
TRUMP: If you’d like me to–
GUTHRIE: — cult ran by the D state–
TRUMP: — study the subject — I’ll tell you what I do know about. I know about Antifa and I know about the radical left and I know how violent they are and how vicious they are. And I know how they are burning down cities run by Democrats not run by Republicans.