Skip To Content
JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT.
Fast Forward

On call to Hannity, Trump condemns white supremacy, equates it again with antifa

President Donald Trump condemned white supremacy during a televised phone interview with Sean Hannity on Thursday night, then quickly pivoted to equating white supremacists with left-wing activists.

“I condemn the KKK, I condemn all White Supremacists, I condemn the Proud Boys,” the president said, though he still maintained that he knows little about the group he name-checked during Tuesday’s debate.

Then he urged Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to condemn antifa, which Trump characterizes as a “group” that has murdered people.

However, a report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies looking at extremist groups over the past 25 years, found not a single death linked to the largely leaderless movement in that period.

They did find 329 deaths linked to right-wing extremists.

Trump’s statements come after he seemed to give a nod to the militant alt-right group, the Proud Boys, at the debate on Tuesday night; he told them to “stand back” but also to “stand by.”

Since the debate, the president has maintained that he knows little of the group, despite a long-standing connection by his associate Roger Stone.

Republish This Story

Please read before republishing

We’re happy to make this story available to republish for free, unless it originated with JTA, Haaretz or another publication (as indicated on the article) and as long as you follow our guidelines. You must credit the Forward, retain our pixel and preserve our canonical link in Google search.  See our full guidelines for more information, and this guide for detail about canonical URLs.

To republish, copy the HTML by clicking on the yellow button to the right; it includes our tracking pixel, all paragraph styles and hyperlinks, the author byline and credit to the Forward. It does not include images; to avoid copyright violations, you must add them manually, following our guidelines. Please email us at [email protected], subject line “republish,” with any questions or to let us know what stories you’re picking up.

We don't support Internet Explorer

Please use Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Edge to view this site.