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Citing an incomplete quote of President Donald Trump’s answer to a question during Tuesday night’s presidential debate, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) declared Trump a fascist white supremacist.
Ocasio-Cortez made the claim in a late-night Tweet following the debate:
“Donald Trump is a white supremacist. People have been warning about this for a long time. They were ridiculed, called hyperbolic & radical - not bc they were wrong, but bc others couldn’t accept that our country elected a supremacist as President. Youtube soty family christmas. This is fascism at our door.”
In her tweet, Ocasio-Cortez included an Axios tweet of video and its account of an exchange between Trump and debate Moderator Chris Wallace. Axios reported the question and Trump’s answer as:
On June 28, 2018, Ocasio-Cortez told CNN she would support the impeachment of President Trump, citing Trump’s alleged violations of the Emoluments Clause and stating that ’we have to hold everyone accountable and that no person is above that law.’
Chris Wallace: ’Are you willing, tonight, to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down..’Ocasio Cortez Trump College Degree
Trump: ’Proud Boys, stand back and stand by! But I’ll tell you what, somebody’s got to do something about antifa and the left.’
But, as Axios’ own video clip shows, Trump’s “Proud Boys” comment was actually a response to Joe Biden’s prompting at a later point in the exchange.
Before that, Trump twice answered “Sure” to Wallace’s question about whether he was “willing to condemn white supremacists and militia groups” – adding, “Give me a name. Who would you like me to condemn?”:
Donald Trump is a white supremacist.
People have been warning about this for a long time.
They were ridiculed, called hyperbolic & radical - not bc they were wrong, but bc others couldn’t accept that our country elected a supremacist as President.
This is fascism at our door. https://t.co/sahloCJt25— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) September 30, 2020
WALLACE: “Are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia groups…”
TRUMP: “Sure…”
WALLACE: “And to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these cities as we saw in Kenosha, and as we’ve seen in Portland”
TRUMP: “Sure, I’m prepared to do it. But, I would say almost everything I see is from the left-wing not from the right-wing. I’m willing to do anything, I want to see peace…”
WALLACE: “Then do it, sir.”
BIDEN: “Do it, say it.”
TRUMP: “What do you want to call them? Give me a name. Who would you like me to condemn?”
WALLACE: “White supremacists and right-wing militias”
BIDEN: “Proud Boys”
Trump: “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by. But I’ll tell you what, somebody’s got to do something about Antifa and the left.”The Politics and Law of Trump’s Second Impeachment
Paul Gigot interviews former Attorney General Michael Mukasey
While some members of Congress have claimed that President Trump’s impeachment and swift conviction are necessary to keep him from serving out the final days of his term, others have acknowledged that they are focused on keeping him from ever running again.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on the House floor before the vote on impeachment that Trump ’must go’ and that he is ’a clear and present danger,’ but remarks from her colleagues indicate they are concerned about what they view as a potential future threat.
’One of the other purposes of impeachment, in this case, is to make sure that President Trump is not able to run for federal office again, that he’s not able to seek the presidency,’ Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, told ABC’s ’This Week’ on Sunday.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., told CNN’s ’State of the Union’ that the Constitution ’talks about conviction, removal, and disqualification from holding further public office.’ Both Raskin and Castro are House impeachment managers.
Even Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who claimed that Trump needed to be removed immediately, acknowledged that there is another motive behind impeaching him.
’Every minute and every hour that he is in office represents a clear and present danger not just to the United States Congress but frankly to the country,’ Ocasio-Cortez told ABC, adding that ’we’re also talking about complete barring of the president, or rather of Donald Trump, from running for office ever again.’
The argument that Trump must be removed from office due to any current threat he poses to the country has clearly not been shared by all Democrats. House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., told CNN before the House voted on impeachment that the impeachment might not even be sent over to the Senate until months from now so that it would not distract from President-elect Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office.
’Let’s give President-elect Biden the 100 days he needs to get his agenda off and running,’ Clyburn said. ’And maybe we will send the articles some time after that.’Alexandria Ocasio Cortez On Trump
It remains to be seen whether enough Senate Republicans will vote to convict Trump, but it has been a foregone conclusion that an impeachment trial would not remove him from office early. Given Senate rules that call for a trial to begin at 1 p.m. the day after the House turns over articles of impeachment, and the Senate not being in session until Tuesday, the earliest time a trial would start would be an hour after Trump leaves office at noon on Wednesday.
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