Mulvaney repeatedly declined to answer why Trump apparently doesn’t intend to make such an address in which he could also directly denounce white supremacy. maybe we don’t.”“The president is not a white supremacist. In responding to the killings in New Zealand, Trump said that he didn’t see white nationalism as a rising threat around the world. The suspected Australian gunman wrote in a manifesto that he supported Trump “as a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose,” according to the Post. He reportedly also said he was inspired by white supremacist Dylann Roof, who killed nine blacks at a Charleston, South Carolina, church in 2015.

Source: Huffington Post March 17, 2019 15:56 UTC