Republican presidential candidate in November Donald Trump denounces the pro-Palestinian demonstrations that rock American campuses and assures that a famous far-right rally in Charlottesville in 2017 – which began with a march of neo-Nazis and where members of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) marched with torches – one is “nothing” compared to the “level of hatred” from these student demonstrations, reports AFP, quoted by News.ro.
“Charlottesville was absolutely nothing, nothing, compared to the level of hatred you have here. It is a huge hatred”, accused the former head of state, the Republican candidate for the White House, on Thursday.
Donald Trump is referring to the famous gathering of far-right activists in Virginia in 2017, which began with a march by neo-Nazis and where members of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) paraded with torches.
The next day, clashes broke out between these supporters of white supremacy and anti-racist counter-demonstrators.
A neo-Nazi sympathizer then drove his car into the crowd of counter-demonstrators, killed a young woman and injured 19 other people.
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Trump, at that time Republican president, then denounced violence “on both sides”, statements because of which he was accused of complacency towards the ultra-right.
American universities are shaken by several days of fierce demonstrations against Israel’s War in the Gaza Strip, in which the police intervene with force.
Several elected officials, both Republicans and Democrats, accused these demonstrations of spreading anti-Semitism.
Donald Trump criticized this student movement on Tuesday, when he evoked “very radical people who want to destroy the faculties”.
The campaign account of Democratic President Joe Biden, Donald Trump’s rival in the November 5 election, mocked these statements by the Republican, posting a very violent video from the events in Charlottesville.
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