incentivizing red flag laws without universal background checks, they re kind of toothless. we re sort of status quo in terms of where this has been in the past. donald trump sounded very strong. there was a lot of public outcry. democrats and gun control groups asking to do something. we ll be at a stalemate. at the same time, lawmakers are asking how to make domestic terrorism an actual punishable crime. it s hard to believe it isn t but there are challenges. let s go through this. people would say if there were isis demonstrating on the streets of america today, we should arrest them. that should never happen. isis is a group that has murdered people for political purposes. go back to charlottesville. if you were to say a white supremacist group involved in acts of violence can t demonstrate on the street across america, people would say, that s a free speech issue. they have a right to speak.
he was the voice connecting donald trump s rhetoric to the violent massacre at walmart. and he was the first voice in the field of 2020 democratic candidates to just say out loud what i heard a lot of people say frankly in both parties that donald trump walks and talks and sounds and, therefore, must be a white supremacist. right. i think beto demonstrated very clearly that there is a substantive judgment among all americans that president trump is a toxic force in our body politics. remember the excitement around joe biden s announcement that he linked explicitly donald trump to charlottesville and people are like this powerful. folks are open to the truth. they want folks to say what donald trump is and beto is good at that of the but you can t just do that. you have to lay out substantive policies about what you re going to do, how you will in some ways
protest between neo-nazis and white supremacists and people protest their presence. one of president trump s political talents is his shamelessness. if someone accuses him of racism or calls him a racist, he will take the challenge back to them. he will say just enough on either side of the issue to claim, i didn t actually say they were very fine people. i also condemned white supremacists and white supremacy to charlottesville, which he did but it was under pressure. it was something immediately afterwards he was facing criticism and wasn t getting sufficiently fair media coverage or lauded, he then often retreats back to his more nativist gut impulses and those were the sorts of comments he
to political prominence on the birther line and tweets a few month ago he told members of the squad, all four minority congresswoman to come back from the countries they came from and three were born in the united states. even though he s always walked up to it, for a while he has been able to avoid this brand of racist or dreaded r word. now, because of some of his behavior and language has been so racist it will be a challenge to 2020. and what about what you ve written today about the president continuing to reveal his incredible vulnerability, obviously in his own view, response to charlottesville, something he feels so vulnerable about, he is today tweeting someone giving him that right wing cover, i didn t really mean good people on both sides when it s exactly what he meant when it was a protest and counter
says, in charlottesville, there were very fine people on both sides. he was also undermined by donald trump 3.0. there were three or four responses to charlottesville. i remember everyone distinctly, they all tended to happen around the 4:00 hour. there was the one that said both sides and chief of staff john kelly, a guy with his head in his hands. he undermines himself by revealing his true racist nature. i think you only have to look at donald trump s twitter feed, his statements not on a teleprompter and that tells you everything you need to know. when you have a majority of the american people now who believe that donald trump is a racist, that s where we are right now. he can t really walk that back. it s almost anything that he says, people, of course, are looking at that and they re leading reading into it.