Opinion | You May Have Missed This, But Biden Just Had His Own ‘Very Fine People’ Moment – By Alan M. Dershowitz (Daily Caller) / April 24, 2024
He condemns “the antisemitic protests,” then mumbles words of equivocation.
President Joe Biden opened his campaign-announcement video in 2019 by excoriating President Donald Trump for suggesting “a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it.” He was referring to Trump’s remarks following the 2017 Charlottesville, Virginia, demonstration in which some racists shouted, “Jews will not replace us.”
“You had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people on both sides,” Trump said. He later explained that he meant both sides of the debate over whether to remove a Confederate monument and that the antisemitic chanters were the “very bad people” he had in mind. He should have been clearer from the start.
This week, Biden had his own moment of unclarity. Asked on Monday about current events on campus across the country, he said: “I condemn the antisemitic protests. That’s why I’ve set up a program to deal with that. I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians.” He then mumbled a few unintelligible words.
