CHICAGO — US President Joe Biden harks back to the 2017 white nationalist march in Charlottesville, Virginia, in his speech wrapping up the first night of the Democratic National Convention.
He recalls how the march’s participants donned “Nazi swastikas, chanting the same antisemitic bile that was heard in Germany in the early 1930s.”
“Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan — so involved with the president then in the White House that they saw him as an ally. They didn’t even bother to wear their hoods,” he says amid boos from the crowd.
He again says former president Donald Trump’s comment that there were “fine people” on both sides of the protest is what motivated him to run in the 2020 election, determined to prevent the GOP leader from remaining in office.
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