Posted on 08/31/2019 6:58:39 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
CNN commentator Steve Cortes met with President Donald Trump Friday after CNN benched him for dispelling the “Charlottesville hoax” that the president once called Neo-Nazis “very fine people.”
Cortes was seen leaving the White House Friday afternoon, and a source familiar with the situation reported that President Trump met with the CNN contributor in solidarity.
A source said that CNN benched him and prevented him from appearing on CNN for disputing the mainstream media “very fine people hoax.”
The mainstream media– as well as former Vice President Joe Biden — have continued to insist that Trump referred to Neo-Nazis as “fine people.” Cortes and many others have disputed this claim.
During a press conference after the Charlottesville rally in 2017, Trump said, “I’m not talking about the Neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally – but you had many people in that group other than Neo-Nazis and white nationalists, okay?”
Cortes has fought the Charlottesville hoax for months.
The CNN contributor wrote in an op-ed for Real Clear Politics in March, referring to Trump’s quotes condemning Neo-Nazis, “These Charlottesville statements leave little room for interpretation.”
“For any honest person, therefore, to conclude that the president somehow praised the very people he actually derided reveals a blatant and blinding level of bias,” he added.
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I remember that in the scenes showed locally it looked like the driver choked up when the antifa protestors surrounded the car and he took off - it seemed he was scared.
Unlike today where every liberal jerkoff wants to heap hatred on Trump supporters.... I digress...
With Statues of Lenin and Stalin - the people those thugs harmed pulled down their statues - not descendants 100 years later staging a pity-party by proxy...
Unlike today where every liberal jerkoff wants to heap hatred on Trump supporters.... I digress...
With Statues of Lenin and Stalin - the people those thugs harmed pulled down their statues - not descendants 100 years later staging a pity-party by proxy... It's different...
I don’t believe most such statues were erected until decades after the CW.
I’m sure it’s on YouTube.
They now only surrounded his car, they were beating on it with their fists and clubs.
His defense attorney must have ducked as at most it should have been involuntary manslaughter and the antifa thugs should have been charged too.
He responded out of fear of the antifa mob attack that was In process.
Just casually checking and it looks like you’re right... not much real action until 40 years after the war ended. Below - some stuff from Virginia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Confederate_monuments_and_memorials_in_Virginia
Alexandria:
Plaques (1870) of Robert E. Lee and George Washington hang on either side of the altar at Christ Church, where both were parishioners. Following a unanimous vote of its board in 2017, the church announced the plaques would be removed in 2018 once a new location of “respectful prominence” is identified.[17][18][19]
Appomattox (1899), a statue dedicated to the Confederate dead, at the intersection of Washington and Prince Streets. The Mayor and the City Council voted unanimously in September 2016 to move the statue to a museum, and are awaiting permission from the Virginia Legislature to do so.[20]
Robert E. Lee hitched his horse in Berryville, Virginia while on his march to Gettysburg
Berryville: Memorial (1986) and “hitching post” where Robert E. Lee tethered his horse, Traveller, while Lee “paused on his march to Gettysburg” to attended a church service[21]
Brandy Station: UDC monument (1998) dedicated to John Pelham[22]
Bristol: Confederate Soldier Monument (1910)[13]
Buchanan: Botetourt Artillery Obelisk (1902)[13]
Buckingham: Confederate Soldiers of Buckingham County (1908)
Lee-Jackson Bivouac Shaft, Chancellorsville
Chancellorsville: Confederate monuments at the site of the Battle of Chancellorsville include:
Jackson Memorial Boulder and Tablet (1888), placed by former members of Stonewall Jackson’s staff[23]
General Thomas J. Jackson Shaft (1888), “On this spot fell mortally wounded Thomas J. Jackson Lt. Gen. C.S.A. May 2nd 1863”[24]
Lee-Jackson Bivouac Shaft (1903), “Bivouac, Lee and Jackson, night of May 1, 1863”[24]
Lee-Jackson Bivouac Tablet (1937)[24]
Brigadier General Elisha F. Paxton Tablet (1980), “In this vicinity Brig. Gen. E. F. Paxton, C.S.A. Aged 35 years, of Rockbridge County, VA. was killed on the morning of May 3, 1863 while leading his command, the Stonewall Brigade in the attack on Fairview”[24]
Robert Edward Lee, Charlottesville
Thomas Jonathan Jackson, Charlottesville
CNN knows they’re lying about this issue... it’s not a mistake it’s intentional.
Sluts and pretentious men... CNN...
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