White supremacists on Tuesday praised President Donald Trump for his return to equivocal rhetoric blaming “both sides” for violence that erupted over the weekend at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
White supremacist leader Richard Spencer praised Trump’s statement, made during an off-the-rails press conference at Trump Tower in Manhattan, as “fair and down to earth.”
After Trump read a curt statement Monday denouncing white supremacists and hate groups by name, Spencer insisted he wasn’t being “serious,” and celebrated his reversal on Tuesday.
“Trump cares about the truth,” he tweeted.
Trump cares about the truth. https://t.co/Dv0gGmysPc
— Richard ☝?Spencer (@RichardBSpencer) August 15, 2017
Trump's statement was fair and down to earth. #Charlottesville could have been peaceful, if police did its job. https://t.co/3FUgmWoiWi
— Richard ☝?Spencer (@RichardBSpencer) August 15, 2017
Bradley Dean Griffin, a white nationalist who blogs under the pen name “Hunter Wallace” at Occidental Dissent, said Trump’s amended rhetoric was “better.”
“The facts about must be filtering out now,” he tweeted. “He is all over the place but this is much better.”
Well, that's better. The facts about must be filtering out now
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) August 15, 2017
He is all over the place but this is much better. The truth will come out. Antifa were allowed to riot https://t.co/6CpEsl0xxW
— Hunter Wallace (@occdissent) August 15, 2017
Neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer was not available on Tuesday after it was booted off several web hosting services and moved to the so-called Dark Web, part of the internet that is not indexed by search engines.
According to the Chicago Tribune, it nevertheless weighed in with an article titled, “Trump Defends Charlottesville Nazis Against Jew Media Lies, Condemns Antifa Terrorists.”
