When Asked to Denounce Antifa, Gov. Terry McAuliffe Denounces Violence on Many Sides

Independent Journal Review ^ | August 28, 2017 | Benny Johnson

[2ndDivisionVet]

Note: This article contains coarse language and graphic content.

President Donald Trump triggered an avalanche of criticism for his handling of the deadly violence by far-right white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, earlier in August.

Demonstrator Heather Heyer was killed when a car plowed through a march in protest of the “Unite the Right” nationalist gathering in Charlottesville. The vehicle was allegedly driven by James Alex Fields Jr., who is now being charged with second-degree murder and is the subject of an FBI civil rights investigation.

Trump received political blowback for not calling out white supremacy by name immediately after the incident. Trump also received criticism for saying there was violence on “many sides” during the incident. In the preceding days after the initial demonstrations, Trump has condemned violence on both the right and the left directly, calling out “white nationalists” in a statement and the far-left extremist group “antifa” at a rally in Phoenix.

Antifa, which stands for “anti-fascist,” is a group that is prone to use violent fascist tactics for its political ends. Antifa has a long-recorded and established history of violence against police and private citizens. In the wake of Charlottesville, dozens of far-left protesters have been arrested for violent behavior. Sunday afternoon, antifa marched on UC Berkeley's campus in response to a prayer rally. The group beat conservative demonstrators, assaulted reporters and fought police....

[2ndDivisionVet]

Will he be called out by thousands of media sources, pundits, bloggers, celebrities and politicians?

[COBOL2Java]

Will he be called out by thousands of media sources, pundits, bloggers, celebrities and politicians?

Heck no! They don't call him "The Punk" for nothing.

[lee martell]

Oh. So since it’s a Democrat the phrase ‘many sides’ is now okay to say?

[11th_VA]

When the governor was asked if he disavows antifa for its actions at Berkley on Monday night, he said: “I disavow anyone — we won't tolerate violence of any kind. You’re entitled to protest. First amendment certainly protected. As I've said after Charlottesville, anyone who came to our state, anyone who committed violence, on any side, will be arrested. [...] Everybody’s entitled to do their protest but were not going to accept violence from anybody.”

[Paladin2]

Terror McHitler is all in for the violent arm of his Party.

[neverevergiveup]

That people like McAuliffe live high off of taxpayers dollars, wield power, and can use their political positions to enrich themselves in other ways is an egregious affront to all of those average citizens who have died in the service of this nation. It sickens me.

[A_Former_Democrat]

“deadly violence by’far right’ ‘white supremacists’” ??

So it’s been determined already the kid intentionally meant to kill someone rather than GTHO of a potentially life threatening situation?

And was everyone there “FRWS”? Or were there people there rallying to defend the Lee monument?

Or hired hands bought and paid for by Jason Kessler/George Soros, et al?

[combat_boots]

The maroon van sat in the spot where Antifa congregated for over 5 minutes. Meanwhile, ONE golf cart with a guerney was one block up and one/two to the right, next to a parking garage, with a fed gray vehicle/MRAP 1/2 block down. Somehow, the challenger ended up on said street with Antifa, behind the white car. How the white car got there, I don’t know.

Amazing driving for a 20 year old, after the crash, backing straight up two blocks, over bumpy streets, RIGHT NEXT TO and in VIEW OF/BY LEOs.

[Paladin2]

The driver should be able to get a job in Hollyweird as a stunt driver.

[monkeybrau]

How dare he blame more than one side at a time!

[I want the USA back]

Don’t expect fairness. Trump is an America-loving Republican. The other is an opportunistic America-hating Marxist in good with the corrupt Clintons.

[BobL]

Yet another example of the word going out by the Dems that the Alt-Left is now working against their needs and needs to be reigned-in.

The only question: Is that even possible now?

[bray]

Marxist violence is justified if they are busting bigots’ heads.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Repossess mom’s house so they can’t live in the basement any more.

[Migraine]

I’m pretending to be an MSNBC panel discussion over some conservative leader’s response:

TOO little, TOO late!
TOO little, TOO late!
TOO little, TOO late!
TOO little, TOO late!
TOO little, TOO late!
TOO little, TOO late!
TOO little, TOO late!
TOO little, TOO late!

[Jaded]

What? Have I misheard? Surely not.

[shanover]

The fact that he was able to become a governor is sickening. He is the type of creep that one would not trust with anything valuable of theirs yet the stupidest people in America,the Liberal,will vote these criminals in to the most important positions in our country. They will steal as much as they can and commit crime as they please and people thank them by voting them back in.

[Luigi Vasellini]

I remember a deal he did with a union many moons ago. He put up 100000 bucks the union put up 8 million and they split a 5 million dollar “profit” I wish I could find that story

[Blood of Tyrants]

“Norman Thomas said recently in a speech made in Cincinnati “Fascism is coming in the United States most probably, but it will not come under that name.” In this statement he was repeating the words of the late Huey Long, but Huey added: “Of course we’ll have it. We’ll have it under the guise of anti-fascism.””

[gogeo]

We're winning.

The RAT party continues to splinter. This Antifa stuff...and their response to it...is killing them.

The Propaganda Media also.