News · moment 18 of 25
Washington, Jefferson, and the Statue Reporter Exchange
from Cheese Plate Time · #58
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4 minNews
They play more of the press conference where Trump argues about Washington and Jefferson being slave owners and whether their statues will be removed next, followed by commentary on how genuine attendees would leave once they saw Nazi salutes.
- 51:47Trump's "very fine people on both sides" speech about the Charlottesville statue protest, featuring his questions about taking down Washington and Jefferson statues due to slavery.
- 53:00Tim challenges the idea that people actually stayed at the event just to protest the statue after neo-Nazis showed up next to them.
- 53:14Tim's experience finding Austrian economics videos that gradually revealed white supremacist content, using it as an example of how events get progressively more racist.
- 54:01Tim acknowledges Trump has a point about the wholesale remaking of history with statue removal, but notes the Charlottesville event was organized by unabashed white nationalists.
- 54:33People at the event had to hate communists and black people and Mexicans enough to show up, treating white genocide conspiracy as justification for marching with torches.
Christopher CantwellJason KesslerMike EnochRichard SpencerDonald TrumpGeorge WashingtonThomas JeffersonUniversity of VirginiaRobert E. LeeBen Carson