White House and campaign aides on Wednesday struggled to clean up President Trump‘s comments a night earlier in which he declined to explicitly condemn white supremacy, instead directing a far-right group to “stand back and stand by” during the first presidential debate.
Trump’s comments about the Proud Boys, a far-right militia group, dominated headlines the morning after the debate.
Multiple Trump surrogates faced questions about the remarks during cable news hits, where they downplayed his calls for the group to “stand by” and pointed to the president’s past denunciations of white supremacists. Continue reading.