TIMES OF ISRAEL
Trump calls on far-right group to ‘stand down’ after debate blowback
by Jacob Magid
September 30, 2020

US President Donald Trump denounced white supremacists on Wednesday after skirting a request to do so during the previous night’s presidential debate, which sparked uproar from Democrats, Jewish groups and others across the political spectrum. “I’ve always denounced any form…Any form of any of that, you have to denounce,” Trump told reporters after being asked whether he’d condemn white supremacists before he left the White House for a campaign rally in Minneapolis…Trump was also asked Wednesday whether he was concerned about right-wing militias taking to the streets. He responded affirmatively, adding that “any form of crime” concerns him. READ MORE

JNS Asking the wrong questions about extremist violence The misleading claim that Trump refused to condemn white supremacists helps obscure the truth about divisive racial issues rather than clarify them…He did it again. When presented at the first presidential debate of 2020 with another opportunity to make a straightforward condemnation of white supremacists, he refused. Or at least that’s what many headlines screamed the next morning after the train wreck of a debate that was held in Cleveland.