At the first presidential debate, Trump did not condemn the right-wing group.
When asked during the first presidential debate Tuesday to condemn white supremacists, President Trump did not—and instead told the Proud Boys, a controversial, right-wing group
to violence against protesters to “stand back and stand by” because “someone’s got to do something about Antifa.”... [+] presidential nominee Joe Biden at the Health Education Campus of Case Western Reserve University on September 29, 2020 in Cleveland, Ohio.“Proud Boys, stand back and stand by, but I’ll tell you what, someone’s got to do something about Antifa and the left because this is not a right wing problem. This is a left wing problem,” Trump said when specifically asked by moderator Chris Wallace to denounce the group.
When Wallace asked Trump to unequivocally condemn white supremacists and militia groups, Trump responded, “I would be willing to do that, but everything I’m seeing is from the left wing, not from the right wing.” The Proud Boys’ plans for a massive rally in Portland this week prompted Mayor Kate Brown to declare a state of emergency in anticipation of widespread violence, though the end result was a largely
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