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Trump has 'inside information' on who protested in Charlottesville: Falwell Jr.
ABC News ^ | August 20, 2017 | Nicki Zink

Posted on 08/20/2017 5:04:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Evangelical Christian leader Jerry Falwell Jr. defended President Donald Trump's comment that there were "very fine people on both sides" in the Charlottesville protests, saying the president "had information I didn't have" about who participated in the demonstration against removal of a Confederate statue in the Virginia city.

"He has inside information that I don't have," Falwell told ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz on "This Week" Sunday. "I don't know if there were historical purists [at the protests] who were trying to preserve some statues. I don't know."

The Liberty University president added of the president, "I think he saw videos of who was there. I think he was talking about what he had seen … He had information I didn’t have.”

Falwell was referring to Trump's remarks at a press conference Tuesday about the Charlottesville violence that left a 32-year-old woman dead.

"You have some very bad people in that group," he said of the "Unite the Right" gathering Aug. 12 in Charlottesville that included white nationalists, neo-Nazis and KKK members and which was met with counterprotests. "But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides," the president said.....

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TOPICS: Government; History; Politics; Religion
KEYWORDS: charlottesville; cvariots; falwell; falwelljr; statues; trump; trumpcvariots

1 posted on 08/20/2017 5:04:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Doesn’t matter what Trump had, the left will never be nice about anything. If Obama group actually set up the President in this Charlottesville Protest, then ‘whatever happened’ had a negative impact with media collaborating with Dems!


2 posted on 08/20/2017 5:12:31 PM PDT by Ambrosia (Research is key to truth, and look at history/past before developing opinions!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Democrats are bringing a motion to the floor to censure our President. Reports state that they have the votes in the Senate.


3 posted on 08/20/2017 5:21:16 PM PDT by TennTuxedo
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Polls have famously shown that 65% of Americans do not want confederate statues replaced - are we really supposed to believe that 65% of the people are racists - so way wouldn’t it be logical to believe that many of those at Charlottesville were decent, well-intentioned, reasonable “fine” people......


4 posted on 08/20/2017 5:32:12 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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Go Mr. President!!! 👍🏼👍🏽👍🏾🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
5 posted on 08/20/2017 5:37:32 PM PDT by 4Liberty ("Russia"? Communists have been infiltrating Hollywood & US academia for decades..........)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The majority of the people are against removing the statues. This include a majority of black people. I would that it is a safe bet that the vast majority of this group are fine people.


6 posted on 08/20/2017 5:38:44 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: TennTuxedo

Recall petitions for any Republican that votes for this crap. Disgusting. Obama was a criminal.


7 posted on 08/20/2017 5:39:46 PM PDT by dandiegirl (BO)
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Recall petitions for any Republican that votes for this crap. Disgusting. Obama was a criminal.


yup


8 posted on 08/20/2017 5:59:43 PM PDT by samtheman (As an oil exporter, why would the Russians prefer Trump to Hillary? (Get it or be stupid.))
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To: Intolerant in NJ

Info I had seen also said 44% of democrats don’t want the statues removed, I expect that upon realizing this is also a losing issue the media and dem leadership will drop it further enraging the extreme left wing to even greater outbursts

http://www.npr.org/2017/08/16/543957964/poll-majority-believe-trump-s-response-to-charlottesville-hasn-t-been-strong-eno


9 posted on 08/20/2017 6:08:21 PM PDT by edzo4 (Democrats playbook = promise everything, deliver nothing, blame someone else.)
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To: TennTuxedo
The Democrats are bringing a motion to the floor to censure our President. Reports state that they have the votes in the Senate.

That will be suicide for any republican or dem(in a moderate area). People are pissed and scared of what the dems have become.

10 posted on 08/20/2017 8:33:41 PM PDT by Lady Heron
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The Liberty University president added of the president, "I think he saw videos of who was there. I think he was talking about what he had seen … He had information I didn’t have.”

what?! a voice of sanity??! getoutahere, can't be lol

11 posted on 08/20/2017 8:46:32 PM PDT by blueplum ( ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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Trump has inside information on a lot of things.
People underestimate him at their peril.


12 posted on 08/20/2017 8:51:49 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: Lady Heron

Flake, McCain, Sasse, Corker, and Collins will vote for censure.


13 posted on 08/24/2017 6:22:03 PM PDT by damper99
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