Trump's white supremacist disavowal-Days after the white supremacist movement, known as the "alt-right," gathered in Washington to celebrate Trump's victory, the President-elect said he wants nothing to do with them.
"I don't want to energize
the group, and I disavow the group," he told the Times. "It's not a
group I want to energize, and if they are energized, I want to look into
it and find out why."
Also notable
is what Trump didn't do: He didn't condemn the white supremacist groups
like the National Policy Institute, which led the weekend gathering, by
name -- something that's noticed every time Trump personally takes the
time to slam the cast of "Hamilton" or wade into other feuds on his
Twitter account.
Trump
also took flak recently after he tapped his campaign CEO Steve Bannon
to be one of his top two advisers in the White House. Bannon, the former
executive chairman of Breitbart News, touted the website as "the
platform for the alt-right." Bannon rejected the anti-Semitic and racist
elements of the alt-right in an interview with the Wall Street Journal
this week and declared himself an "economic nationalist."
Trump
defended Bannon in his New York Times meeting, saying that he's known
him for "a long time" and that the allegations of anti-Semitism and
connections to the alt-right are "not him."
"If I thought he was racist, or 'alt-right' ... I wouldn't even think about hiring him," Trump said Tuesday.
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