"I don't think he's a Nazi, but I think he's a Nazi sympathizer" -- because he also called out a terrorist group that has been terrorizing his supporters throughout the year. One of these terrorists was convicted of conspiring to gas a deploraball attended by regular Trump supporters -- the same guy showed up at this rally and videotaped one of his cronies assaulting a reporter while he smirked.
There's not one iota of evidence that Trump is a Nazi sympathizer but you definitely sympathize with antifa terrorists who plot to gas Trump voters and assault reporters.
This post is so scummy I almost didn't respond to it.
Almost.
I think Trump is a Nazi sympathizer because in a scenario where a widely dangerous and widespread extremist group killed someone, he felt it necessary to call attention to the much lesser actions perpetrated by the group that was there in response to them.
Some of what antifa did in the city was wrong. Much of what they've done outside of Charlottesville is unquestionably wrong and meritorious of condemnation, but we weren't discussing that. Admiral has spent a great deal of energy drawing attention to the improvised flamethrower one of them created. At this point, I see no defense for that. But what the white supremacists did was a thousand times worse, and equating the two is fundamentally a red herring with one purpose--reducing the guilt of the greater evil.
Criticizing 'all sides' in this scenario is the worst example of "same thing both sides" possible, because while neither side is pure and innocent, the crimes of one side vastly dwarf the crimes of the other. Again: someone died.
When a person is killed, you don't talk about how they had it coming because their friends were provoking their murderer. You talk about their murder and why it was wrong, and the rest of it is left out because it would distract from their murder. Unless you want to distract from their murder.
Lastly, calling me an antifa sympathizer based on no evidence at all is simply an ad hominem argument, and nobody should ever take you seriously when you do this. It's the last resort of a person who's run out of arguments or the first resort of a dedicated troll. I know which you are. It's also less important than whether Trump is one, because I don't lead America.
Pathetic. You're ignoring that antifa has been assaulting his supporters throughout the fucking year including plotting mass gas attacks with acidic fumes. They've nearly killed people on several occasions. Trump is aware of this and has tweeted about this violence in the past. I'm sure that was on his mind when he learned about the violence at this rally. In fact, those very TERRORISTS who plotted that gas attack attended this rally as "counter-protestors" and committed even more assaults. Not on Nazis, but on reporters who dared to record their violence. They're scum and the left wing has been defending them.
He called attention to the hate on many sides, as he should have. He condemned all of it. Not just the violence at that rally but at other rallies in which these left-wing idiots attacked his voters. Then he specifically singled out Neo-Nazis for condemnation. Only after reporters pressed him on that "many sides" comment was he forced to focus on "one side" and defend himself.
None of that makes him a "Nazi sympathizer". That's utterly bullshit and you know it.