Scott Jennings, a Republican strategist, left a former Clinton administration official, Maria Cardona, doing the old stumble-mumble on Sunday after he questioned her claim that former President Donald Trump was the inspiration for the 2017 Charlottesville, Virginia protest that quickly took a violent turn, leaving one person dead and 19 others injured. The incident came as a result of leftist counter-protesters attempting to break up a rally that was put together in order to protest against the removal of statues that were created to honor prominent Confederate individuals back during the summer of 2017.
Cardona said that Trump “spurred on and inspired” the protest, along with the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol building, which has been used as an anti-Trump talking point ever since it happened, though it doesn’t seem to have changed the minds of any conservatives about whether or not they can support the 45th president in his latest bid for the White House.
Nor should it.
“Let‘s remember Charlottesville. Let‘s remember January 6th. All of those events ended in tragedy and all of those events were spurred on and inspired by the words that came out of the former president‘s mouth,” Cardona claimed, prompting Jennings to ask, “How did he inspire Charlottesville?”
“He went out there and said both sides are good people —” Cardona stated before Jennings interjected, saying, “That was after the riot. You said he caused the riot.”
According to a report from The Daily Caller, after the riot took place, Trump spoke about the incident, saying, “Excuse me, they didn’t put themselves down as neo-Nazis, and you had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. You had people in that group — excuse me, excuse me, I saw the same pictures as you did — you had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name,” Trump said during an exchange with reporters. “George Washington was a slave owner. Was George Washington a slave owner? So will George Washington now lose his status, are we gonna take down — excuse me — are we gonna take down statues of George Washington? How about Thomas Jefferson? What do you think of Thomas Jefferson? You like him? Okay good. Are we gonna take down the statue? Cause he was a major slaveowner. Now are we gonna take down his statue? So you know what? It’s fine. You’re changing history, you’re changing culture, and you had people — and 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? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly.”
The next moment in the segment, Cardona noticed the look on Jennings face, calling him out for appearing “skeptical.”
“Yes, I’m skeptical that he caused Charlottesville,” Jennings replied. “You know it‘s true. Yes, I do think that he did cause Charlottesville, because those people —” Cardona stated, before Jennings went on to ask her, “Who is causing the rallies on campuses?”
Since the Oct. 7, 202, attack by the radical Islamic terrorist group Hamas that killed over 1,200 people in Israel, demonstrations at multiple universities and colleges have occurred in which anti-Israel protesters occupied buildings, chanted a slogan that has connotations of wiping out Israel and blocked Jewish students from parts of campus.
“Those people that were marching —” Cardona went on to say, before Jennings asked a second time, “Who’s causing the rallies on the streets of New York?”
“Let me finish. Let me finish,” Cardona lashed out. “Those people that were marching were marching in support of one person. They were marching in support of Donald Trump.”
He really got under her skin, didn’t he? That tends to happen when you present facts to liberals who are deluded enough to actually believe their own bogus talking points.
You just got to love it.