During a Monday morning interview on “Fox & Friends,” White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany defended Donald Trump’s decision to share a video depicting one of his supporters shouting “white power,” a well-known white supremacist slogan. The president retweeted the video from his Twitter account on Sunday and later deleted it amid widespread backlash online. On Sunday, the White House said Trump saw “tremendous enthusiasm from his many supporters” in the video and claimed he “did not hear” the slogan despite it being yelled loudly within the video’s first 10 seconds. The Twitter user wrote that the altercation took place in The Villages, a community for seniors in Florida. In his now-deleted retweet, Trump thanked the “great people of The Villages,” adding, “The Radical Left Do Nothing Democrats will Fall in the Fall.”

Source: Huffington Post June 29, 2020 19:07 UTC