Do Trump elevators go to the top floor … Trump still can't utter Heather’s name, can barely cop to calling her death a result of domestic terrorism, and his moral plane has had a mid-air event. Darn those Syrian moderates, there’s a few in every crowd.
TRUMP: So I don't want to rush into a statement. So making the statement when I made it was excellent. In fact, the young woman who I hear is a fantastic young women, and it was on NBC, her mother wrote me and said through, I guess, Twitter, social media, the nicest things and I very much appreciate that.
I hear she was a fine, a really -- actually, an incredible young woman. But her mother on Twitter thanked me for what I said. And honestly, if the press were not fake and if it was honest, the press would have said what I said was very nice. But unlike you and unlike -- excuse me -- unlike you and unlike the media, before I make a statement, I like to know the facts.
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TRUMP: I didn't know David Duke was there. I wanted to see the facts. And the facts as they started coming out were very well stated. In fact, everybody said his statement was beautiful; if he would have made it sooner, that would have been good. I couldn't have made it sooner because I didn't know all of the facts.
Frankly, people still don't know all of the facts. It was very important that -- excuse me, excuse me -- it was very important to me to get the facts out and correctly. Because if I would have made a fast statement, and the first statement was made without knowing much other than what we were seeing.
The second statement was made after -- with knowledge, with great knowledge. There are still things -- excuse me -- there are still things that people don't know.
TRUMP: I want to make a statement with knowledge. I wanted to know the facts.
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QUESTION: Senator McCain said that the alt-right is behind these attacks, and he linked that same group to those who perpetrated the attack in Charlottesville.
TRUMP: Well, I don't know -- I can't tell you. I'm sure Senator McCain must know what he's talking about. But when you say the "alt- right," define "alt-right" to me. You define it, go ahead.
QUESTION: Well, I think that (ph)...
TRUMP: No, define it for me, come on. Let's go. Define it for me.
QUESTION: Senator McCain defined them as the same group...
TRUMP: OK, what about the alt-left that came charging them (ph)? Excuse me. What about the alt-left that came charging at the -- as you say, the alt-right? Do they have any semblance of guilt?
QUESTION: Mr. Trump...
(CROSSTALK)
TRUMP: Let me ask you this. What about the fact they came charging -- that they came charging with clubs in their hands, swinging clubs? Do they have any problem? I think they do.
QUESTION: Sir...
TRUMP: As far as I'm concerned, that was a horrible, horrible day.
Wait a minute, I'm not finished.
(CROSSTALK)
I'm not finished, fake news. That was a horrible day...
QUESTION: (OFF-MIKE)
TRUMP: I will tell you something. I watched those very closely, much more closely than you people watched it. And you have -- you had a group on one side that was bad, and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent, and nobody wants to say that, but I'll say it right now. You had a group -- you had a group on the other side that came charging in without a permit, and they were very, very violent.
QUESTION: Mr. President, are you putting what you're calling the alt-left and white supremacists on the same moral plane?
TRUMP: I'm not putting anybody on a moral plane. What I'm saying is this. You had a group on one side and you had a group on the other, and they came at each other with clubs and it was vicious and it was horrible. And it was a horrible thing to watch.
But there is another side. There was a group on this side, you can call them the left. You've just called them the left -- that came violently attacking the other group. So you can say what you want, but that's the way it is.
TRUMP: OK. Good. Are we going to take down the statue? Because he was a major slave-owner. Now, are we going to take down his statue? So you know what? It's fine. You're changing history. You're changing culture. And you had people, and I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists.
OK? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly. Now, in the other group also, you had some fine people, but you also had troublemakers and you see them come with the black outfits and with the helmets and with the baseball bats. You've got -- you had a lot of bad -- you had a lot of bad people in the other group...
(CROSSTALK)
QUESTION: ... treated unfairly (inaudible) you were saying. You were saying the press has treated white nationalists unfairly? (inaudible) understand what you're saying.
TRUMP: No, no. There were people in that rally, and I looked the night before. If you look, they were people protesting very quietly the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee. I'm sure in that group there were some bad ones. The following day, it looked like they had some rough, bad people -- neo-Nazis, white nationalists, whatever you want to call them.
But you had a lot of people in that group that were there to innocently protest and very legally protest, because you know -- I don't know if you know, they had a permit. The other group didn't have a permit.
So, I only tell you this, there are two sides to a story. I thought what took place was a horrible moment for our country, a horrible moment. But there are two sides to the country (sic).
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Note: “alt-Right” is a RWNJ neologism, just like “alt-Left” (which when used at least by me in DK is always in jest) was made up by the usual idiots, much like “cultural Marxism” is an invention of some very peculiar fascist cults.
I try not to use any of these terms except to mock them because like Left/Right they oversimplify its French seating chart origins.
RWNJ is easier to evoke generally because conservative thought as invoked (like the false dichotomies of Democrat/Republican are subverted by DINO/RINO) is inherently flawed in its logical inability as a subaltern activity, to reconcile itself with classical Liberalism.
When Agent Orange uses “alt-Left” he has already adopted and endorses the RWNJ use of the term.
The Left, like the Right is nuanced, and one needs to explicate the ideological subtleties. One example on the left is the variation of Trotskyist parties in Europe, much like on the right, the number of wack pseudo-Christianist sects in the US that advocate apocalyptic violence. The failure comes in trying to draw equivalences.