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Trump seems to think he has an airtight defense for visiting a KKK hotbed in Michigan

www.msnbc.com Trump seems to think he has an airtight defense for visiting a KKK hotbed in Michigan

The former president just made a campaign stop in Howell, Michigan, where white supremacists recently held a march and voiced support for Trump, Hitler, Nazis and the KKK.

The former president just made a campaign stop in Howell, Michigan, where white supremacists recently held a march and voiced support for Trump, Hitler, Nazis and the KKK.

Donald Trump’s appearance in Howell, Michigan, on Tuesday sparked controversy before he even arrived. That’s because the visit continued his notable tradition of scheduling campaign stops in locations known as hotbeds for racist extremism.

Just last month, a group of white supremacists marched in Howell and expressed their support for Trump and Adolf Hitler. As journalist Jon King wrote for the Michigan Advance, the event evoked memories of Howell’s racist — and in some cases, fairly recent — history of public bigotry and the Ku Klux Klan.

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I don't think he needs a defense, honestly. If ever there was a legitimate right-wing claim of free speech it's a presidential candidate being able to visit with and address whoever he or she chooses.

But the rest of us are also free to deduce what we will from who he chooses to stump to.

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- Agreed. It's good that they're now saying the quiet parts out loud. We can see that there's definitely a pattern of racism in Trump's actions. Those of us that are secure don't have to support it.
  
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  He's been saying the quiet part out loud since he took out a full page ad in New York, demanding the incarceration of the Central Park Five.
  
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- Agreed. But it seems odd he's out there preaching to the choir while Harris is touring battleground states.
  
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  But it seems odd he’s out there preaching to the choir while Harris is touring battleground st
  
  That's a fair point but I think it comes down to the fact that the only part of his mind that hasn't been consumed by whatever brain rot he's got going on seems to be his ego. In that light, it's totally logical. (for Trump)
  
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- Man anyone can be a presidential candidate. He’s the nominee.
  
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  Sure, but anyone has the right to address who they want. (And as noted, have that pattern noticed...)
  
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Trump loves the kkk and is a Nazi sympathizer so no surprise here.

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Trump's defense: "I have a history of racist comments, actions, and business policies. No one should be alarmed or surprised by this."

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- “In fact, since I’m so clearly, openly, and historically a racist piece of shit, it’s kind of your fault for not stopping me more effectively, isn’t it?”
  
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Why does he need a defense? We already know he's weird.

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"support for Hitler"

Kinda too late for that boys!

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- I mean, I also support Hitler's most recent political statement to depose Hitler. Executed with German efficiency.
  
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He needed a crowd or what?

Let him. He has destroyed everything and anyone that he has ever been close to. Let him mingle with the Nazi and KKK as well..

If he manages to encourage them to do stupid shit that'll land them in prison, just like anyone else who supported or worked for him, I'll be grateful for his service, though it's through the most backwards way.

Hopefully he's going to make America great again by absorbing all the shit and letting democracy wring it out like a shitty orange sponge.

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I would have believed "I'm sorry, I'm stupid and lazy and just go where my handlers say to go anyways."

But it's also the fascism.

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Has the KKK ever supported someone who wasn't a total piece of shit?

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- Probably not, birds of a feather…
  
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But Trump seems to think he found an airtight defense for his Michigan visit. When a reporter on Tuesday asked about his response to criticism over his visit, he responded with a question of his own: “Who was here in 2021?” The answer he was fishing for — and received — was “Joe Biden.”

Of course, the big difference is that the president wasn’t visiting right after racists praised him and Hitler simultaneously.

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- In his defence, the only argument he's ever capable of making, this one included, is "No u."
  
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"I'm desperate to find someone who still likes me."

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"The best people"

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Hey, you going to deny a man meeting his most important base?

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I bet you all those marching in support for Trump and Hitler went showing their faces, cause they're cowards

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I hate click-bait.

“Who was here in 2021?” (Biden)

The obvious difference is Trump is courting white supremacists and refuses to denounce anything they do in his name...

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- A rally in 2021? That doesn't make any sense. Biden wasn't campaigning then, he was in office in 2021.
  
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