'Charlottesville is peanuts': Trump doubles down on whitewashing neo-Nazi rally
Former President Donald Trump again smeared pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses by comparing them to a 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Trump spoke to reporters Tuesday before stepping into court for his Manhattan hush-money trial.
"The Biden protests that are going on are horrible," the former president said of the campus demonstrations. "It's all caused by him because he doesn't know how to speak. He can't put two sentences together."
"He said he ran because of Charlottesville," he continued. "Well, if the people that know Charlottesville, when you extend the statement, it's a big hoax what they say was said, and they understand that.
"And Charlottesville is peanuts compared to what you're looking at now."
Trump went on to suggest protesters should be treated like people who participated in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
"I wonder if that's going to be the same kind of treatment they gave J6," he remarked. "Let's see how that all works out. I think I can give you the answer right now, and that's why people have lost faith in our court system."
The White House has previously condemned Trump for downplaying the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville.
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“Minimizing the antisemitic and white supremacist poison displayed in Charlottesville is repugnant and divisive," White House spokesman Andrew Bates told the Associated Press.
Following the rally in Charlottesville, Trump said, “You had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides.”
Trump first called the rally "peanuts" compared to the campus demonstrations last week.