President Donald Trump scoffed at NBC townhall moderator Savannah Guthrie on Thursday for a question about denouncing white supremacy, rebuking her suggestion that he seems “hesitant to do so.”
“You’ve done this to me and everybody … I denounce white supremacy,” Trump said. “I’ve denounced white supremacy for years. But you always do it. You always start with the question.
“You didn’t [ask] Joe Biden whether or not he denounces antifa. I watched him on the same basic show with Lester Holt, and he was asking questions like Biden was a child.”
Trump’s comments came during a townhall event in Florida carried by NBC. His reference was to an Oct. 5 townhall event in which NBC Nightly News anchor Holt hosted the question-and-answer forum with the former vice president and Democrat nominee for president.
Guthrie insisted that “It feels that sometimes you’re hesitant to do so.”
Trump shot back.
“Here we go again. Every time, in fact, my people came, ‘I’m sure they’ll ask you the white supremacy question,’” Trump said.
“I denounce white supremacy, and frankly, you want to know something, I denounce antifa and I denounce these people on the left who are burning down our cities, that are run by Democrats, who don’t know what they’re doing,” Trump added as a woman in the background could be seen nodding her head.
The contentious exchange continued when Guthrie asked about QAnon, which she described as a conspiracy theory proffered by those who believe that “Democrats are a satanic pedophile ring and that you are the savior of that.”
When Trump said he didn’t know anything about it, Guthrie interrupted him by saying “I just told you.”
“You told me, but what you tell me doesn’t necessarily make it fact, I hate to say that,” Trump retorted.
The two continued to spar when Guthrie referenced Trump’s retweet of a post that Biden “orchestrated to have SEAL Team Six, the Navy SEAL Team Six, killed to cover up the fake death of [Osama] bin Laden. Now, why would [you] send a lie to your followers?”
“That was a retweet,” Trump said. “An opinion of somebody. That was a retweet. I’ll put it out there. People can decide for themselves.”
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