alt-right has been crushed and what remains of it hates spencer. we ve interviewed him a couple times since he s been charlottesville for the lawsuit always in a different location because he was too scared to stay too close to town. do you understand piling on someone when facing a lawsuit i would despite the col characterization of piling. i want to ask you the most interesting thing, did you do it on purpose and do you feel bad? charlottesville? the whole movement itself. did you do it on purpose or did you not care? i didn t create the movement? you named it and became the face of it. i was trying to unite everything where it would be simply me and it would have been better if they had [ bleep ] bent the knee and shut the [ bleep ] up. wow. the whole 2016, 2017 experience was quite something, wasn t it?
come hang out in the alt-right and yeah, i just was too old. i was slumming. i don t know. did you think there would be any consequences to your slumming? to my slumming with those guys? to your word. lawfair? no. i feared there was going to be some kind of violence at a lot of those rallies. that was becoming present. i think i under estimated about a lot of people. i think a lot of people wanted to be me. one of the big things the alt-right was i want to be spencer. i want to be in the headlines. it created a tremendous amount of jealousy. so you knew you would attract attention if you went to this rally? to charlottesville? uh-huh. yeah. and i wanted attention. yeah. it was just kind of almost like a concert tour or something. spencer is here. this is our speaker for the night. this is why we re here, everybody. we own these streets!
we own these streets! we occupy these grounds! we won! i think i was pretty enthusiastic that night. i thought wow things are exciting. everything is comieing together and so on. charlottesville was the end of the pique of the right. this courthouse is the home of the federal civil trial. it s against all the major organizers of the 2017 unite the right rally in charlottesville. it s the biggest consequence most of these guys have faced and it s not a criminal trial, it s a civil one. innocence like no matter what the verdict is you have already won because richard spencer said it was financially crippling. they don t hold public rallies anymore. whatever they might be doing behind the scenes, they re not
tech savvy able to act anonymously but as like a why did you say that charlottesville is a success afterwards? because the most important thing is raising awareness about the issues. you didn t even get to give a single speech. it was cancelled before it began. right, part of the national conversation about the importance of maintaining historical monuments that did happen. everyone paid attention to it because someone got murdered. the community defended ourselves against thugs in a battle that was brought by this city that wanted a blood bath. so you had to testify in court today but you guys wore black uniforms in part because it concealed blood.
in charlottesville, virginia more than four years since white supremacists descended on the city, hard to forget the images from the weekend. white supremacists marching with torches chanting jews will not replace us. defendants here, some of them individuals, white nationalists, neo-nazis designated as hate groups. men who made themselves white power brands. richard spencer, matthew parrot and jason kessler spent a month in federal court for racially committed violence. they said they were exercising their right to free speech and self-defense. during the trial, some of the defendants sat down with me. so why did you say that