Posted on 02/17/2021 4:52:33 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
President Joe Biden called out the Proud Boys as one of the greatest threats to America during his town hall in Milwaukee.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor Joel Berkowitz got to ask Biden about white supremacists and other hate groups during that town hall Tuesday night.
"While I appreciate efforts being made to bring them to justice, I worry about ongoing threats to our country from Americans who embrace white supremacy and conspiracies that align with it. What can your administration do to address this complex and wide-ranging problem?" Berkowitz asked the president.
"I got involved in politics to begin with because of civil rights and opposition to white supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, and the most dangerous people in America continue to exist. That is the greatest threat to terror in America, domestic terror," Biden said.
"Are you concerned about white supremacists in Wisconsin?" Terry Sater asked Berkowitz.
"Sure. We've seen them kill people. We've had things happen in our own backyard," Berkowitz said.
Kyle Rittenhouse, charged with killing two people during police brutality protests in Kenosha, could be seen in a Mount Pleasant bar, prosecutors said, flashing "white power" signs while posing for photos and serenaded with the Proud Boys anthem.
The same group the president brought up at the town hall.
"You may remember, in one of my debates with the former president, I asked him to condemn the Proud Boys and he wouldn't do it," Biden said.
Berkowitz said he wished the president would have talked more at the Pabst Theater about the underlying causes of hate groups, but he's glad Biden has changed the tone of the conversation from the White House.
"They are dangerous people," Biden said.
The president said he'd like the Justice Department and the civil rights division to focus on hate groups.
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Unfit to serve.
Biden is the greatest threat to America.
Patriots are a threat to the Uniparty.
Same to you, Senile Joe.
Hey Joe I hear that your nemisis Corn Pop is head of the Proud Boys. Better get out your bicycle chain.
Proud Boys are protectors of America.
FU Joe.
tell PedoJoe that Proud Boys is more of an idea.
But certainly not the DNC’s political army wing of BLM and AntiFa... they’re not threats at all, nooo... they just did billions of dollars of damage over the summer and YOU SUPPORTED THEM.
It wasn’t the Proud Boys burning, looting, murdering throughout all last year...
Welcome to Biden’s Banana Republic!
China Joe The Stealer once again proves he is unfit to serve POTUS.
Whatta laff.
This is the SOB who was against busing because Irish Catholics from Southie to Wilmington were rioting in ‘74 over the issue.
He got into politics because of civil rights? My ass. He was a full blown racist panderbear back when he thought it would get him elected.
Antifa post graphic images & flyers like this all over Portland. It is to incite political violence. It works. It’s in this context that one of their members (Reinoehl) hunted down a Trump supporter & was immediately cheered on by his comrades.
Quote Tweet Peter Boghossian
Advocating the murder of your political opponents—no matter how odious you find their beliefs—has no place in civil society.
I thought Biden was corn pop
Well, as long as they are chasing imaginary threats, we have a chance.
...flashing “white power” signs...
Didn’t know there was such a thing until recently.
Pfffft... a completely set up question. It even reads like it was written by Biden’s political hacks. A better question would be, “Mr. Biden, what specific steps are you going to take to unify the country as you keep telling everyone you want, but appears contrary to your rhetoric?”
Xiden misspells stuff all the time, and I gotta fix it.
Nope, you and your VP are.
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