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Richard Spencer: ‘Only a dumb person’ would take Trump’s call-out of white supremacists seriously

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Thanks Rich, or can I call you Dick, but your not helping the situation nor POTUS Donnie when you open your mouth. Yes everyone needs to understand there were many involved in the stupidity from last Saturday in Charlottesville and yes anyone involved in any act should be handled by the proper authority, however you’ve caused enough headaches and just need to go away – PB/TK 

Richard Spencer: ‘Only a dumb person’ would take Trump’s call-out of white supremacists seriously – By Laura Clawson / Aug 15 2017

Notoriously punchable white supremacist leader Richard Spencer is wrong about the vast majority of things. But he may be right about the statement Donald Trump made on Monday after the political costs of not denouncing white supremacists grew too great:

“His statement today was more kumbaya nonsense,” said Spencer, who attended and was slated to speak at the white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday. “Only a dumb person would take those lines seriously.”

That is a non-crazy assessment of the statement Trump was obviously pressured to give and had nothing to do with the writing of, except for his insistence that he start by talking about a different subject entirely. Whoever wrote that statement didn’t even bother to make it sound like Trump. And while some of his white supremacist base are angry that he named the KKK and neo-Nazis, others see plenty of ways to read the statement as favorable to them:

“He said EVERYONE INVOLVED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. that includes Antifa and BLM,” one Reddit user posted on the site’s pro-Trump subreddit.

Continue to dailykos.com article: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/15/1689810/-Richard-Spencer-Only-a-dumb-person-would-take-Trump-s-call-out-of-white-supremacists-seriously

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