Thead: Please.

Everyone congratulating Trump for having said Proud Boys should stand down and let law enforcement do its work:

He also claimed he didn't know who they are.

This fits with a pattern he developed in 2016. 1/4
See:

2/4

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/donald-trump-hate-groups-neo-nazi-white-supremacist-racism/
Remember, next time he rails on "Antifa" or "anarchists" or "thugs" or "looters" or dispatches DOJ to threaten "anarchist jurisdictions," this is all part of the pattern: 3/4
Asked to denounce a specific group, he claims not to know them.

Makes a vague gesture at maybe-sorta-denouncing.

Proceeds to use the same racist inciting language they have believed all along he is signaling to them. 4/4
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