Trump administration is against White supremacy and wants an honest election

Report by : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA

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 US President Trump denounced White supremacy on 15 October 2020 (Thursday), while assuring that he will accept a peaceful transfer of power should Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden win on 3 November.

During a town hall event hosted by NBC News' Savannah Guthrie at 14 October night, Trump was asked to clarify his stance on White supremacists, after the TODAY show host  Chris Wallace said Trump's response during the first presidential debate in September was unclear.

"I denounce White supremacy, okay," Trump said. "I denounce White supremacy, I have, for years. I denounce White supremacy and you want to know something, I denounce Antifa."

During the first presidential debate when moderator Chris Wallace of "Fox News Sunday" asked the president if he was willing to denounce White supremacists, he responded: “Sure, I’m willing to do that, but I would say almost everything I see is from the left-wing, not the right-wing. I am willing to do anything. I want to see peace.”

Trump has been criticizing Antifa for exploding and fuming social unrest in the US through the "Black Lives Matter" movement. His administration has listed Antifa and other US leftist group KKK as terrorist organizations. 

In August 2019, there was a White House petition on listing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a terrorist organization in the US. The petition has garnered more than 100,000 online signatures and the application is a proposed draft yet to be approved and signed by Trump. Meanwhile, the US Customs and Immigration has rejected CCP members from entering or migrating to the US. Existing CCP members in the US are urged by independent Chinese media Epoch Times and NTDTV to give up CCP membership in order to continue living in the US by just signing the CCP Membership Withdrawal Certificate on Epoch Times web-site http://tuidang.epochtimes.com.

Meanwhile, during the first presidential debate, Biden interrupted Trump and said the White supremacists are "Proud Boys".

The Proud Boys have been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and have held multiple events in Portland, alongside other right-wing groups. The gatherings have sparked some violent clashes with left-wing counter-demonstrators.

Biden interrupted, calling Antifa “an idea, not an organization.”

Trump fired back saying, “Oh, you’ve got to be kidding.”

“When a bat hits you over the head, that's not an idea,” Trump said. “Antifa is bad.”

Meanwhile, Guthrie questioned the president on whether he would accept a peaceful transfer of power should Biden win the presidency on 3 November, saying his answers in the past have not been clear and referencing the president’s warnings of widespread voter fraud due to the scale of mail-in voting due to the current pandemic.

“When I see thousands of ballots dumped in dumpsters and when you see military ballots dumped in garbage cans,” Trump said.

“They spied on my campaign and they got caught and they tried to take down a duly elected sitting president, and you ask if I will accept a peaceful transfer of power?” Trump said. “The answer is yes, I will. But I want it to be an honest election, and so does everybody else.”

Sources : Fox News / NTDTV

Refs : https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-denounces-white-supremacy-says-he-will-accept-a-peaceful-transfer-of-power-but-wants-to-win; https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2020/10/09/a102959247.html