Trump: I Have Denounced White Supremacy For Years; “Hesitant? Here We Go Again…” | Video

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President Trump argues with NBC News’ Savannah Guthrie about white supremacy at Thursday night’s town hall.

GUTHRIE: — so let’s drop it for now.

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.





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