A video has emerged in which former vice president Biden called a neo-Confederate group as “full of many fine people.” Yet no Democrats has called Biden a racist, a Nazi or a white supremacist.
Then-Sen. Biden made the comments about the United Daughters of the Confederacy, a group that has been called “The KKK’s more feminine, genteel sister organization.”
Joe Biden called the United Daughters Of The Confederacy "an organization made up of many fine people who continue to display the Confederate flag." pic.twitter.com/uWRNUCU4sO
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) December 8, 2019
Democrats have consistently lied about President Trump’s remarks about the people in Charlottesville, with the Democrats and the media saying that Trump called neo Nazis “very fine people.” But did he really? Of course he didn’t. He specifically exempted racists and Nazis from his praise.
Here is what President Trump actually said:
“Excuse me, they didn’t put themselves down as neo-Nazis, and you had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group – excuse me, excuse me, I saw the same pictures you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.”
“I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists because they should be condemned totally.”
While there is no evidence that Biden holds any racist views and it is unclear how he currently feels about the UDC, the resurfaced video underscores how the political tactics of progressive Democrats can prove problematic for the party’s front-runner.
Critics of the former vice president were also quick to accuse Biden of hypocrisy since he launched his own campaign attacking President Trump for his controversial “very fine people on both sides” comments during the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
