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WATCH: Breitbart News Challenges Beto O’Rourke on Charlottesville ‘Very Fine People’ Hoax
by Joel B. Pollak

CHARLESTON, South Carolins — Breitbart News asked former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX), Democratic presidential hopeful, about his remark Monday evening at the College of Charleston in which he repeated the “very fine people” hoax about President Donald Trump’s reaction to the riots in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.

During the event, part of the College of Charleston’s “Bully Pulpit” series, O’Rourke claimed that President Trump is responsible for acts of white supremacist violence in the United States. He misquoted Trump several times, claiming, for example, that the president had referred to immigrants as an “infestation” and “animals” (he was referring to gangs, specifically the El Salvadoran gang MS-13, which rapes, murders, and mutilates its victims).

O’Rourke claimed that Trump’s rhetoric was “giving permission for exactly what took place in El Paso on August 3rd” (i.e. the mass shooting that killed 22 people). He added: “And lest you think this is an isolated strain of his hatred — this is the same man who called Klansmen, and neo-Nazis, and white supremacists ‘very fine people’ days after they were marching in the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting: ‘Jews, you will not replace us!'”

O’Rourke also said that the U.S. needed a president who would “heal” rather than “inflame” national tensions.

In a press conference afterwards, Breitbart News asked O’Rourke why he continued to misquote the president: ...

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https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/08/26/watch-breitbart-news-challenges-beto-orourke-on-charlottesville-very-fine-people-hoax/

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