Kayleigh McEnany said Trump shared the video for his 'demonized' supporters and claimed the president somehow 'did not hear' the white supremacist slogan.
shouting “white power,” a well-known white supremacist slogan. The president retweeted the video from his Twitter account on Sunday and later deleted it amid widespread backlash online.Trump saw “tremendous enthusiasm from his many supporters” in the video and claimed he “did not hear” the slogan despite it being yelled loudly within the video’s first 10 seconds.
McEnany repeated the claim on Monday and, despite Trump having deleted the tweet, said “his point in tweeting out that video was to stand with his supporters who are oftentimes demonized.”first tweeted from an anonymous account, showed a man driving a golf cart fitted with Trump paraphernalia and shouting the slogan during a verbal exchange with anti-Trump protesters. The Twitter user wrote that the altercation took place in The Villages, a community for seniors in Florida.
In his now-deleted retweet, Trump thanked the “great people of The Villages,” adding, “The Radical Left Do Nothing Democrats will Fall in the Fall.”President Donald Trump shared a video from an anonymous Twitter user depicting one of his supporters shouting"white power." Former Vice President Joe Biden, Trump’s presumptive opponent in the November election, was among many who noted the president’s use of the phrase “great people” in his Sunday tweet was similar toToday the President shared a video of people shouting “white power” and said they were “great.” Just like he did after Charlottesville.
We’re in a battle for the soul of the nation — and the President has picked a side. But make no mistake: it’s a battle we will win.Democrats weren’t the only ones who criticized Trump’s tweet on Sunday. South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, the lone Black Republican in the Senate who is routinely tapped to sell the Trump administration’s policies to Black people, offered on Sunday what, for him, could be considered as forceful a condemnation as any.
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