There are many negative but honest headlines you could write about Tuesday night’s semi-coherent shouting match between Donald Trump and Joe Biden and Biden’s de facto spokesman Chris Wallace. But the media has settled on a headline ripped straight from their own fever dreams. “From Debate Stage, Trump Declines To Denounce White Supremacy,” declares NPR. “Trump Refuses to Denounce White Supremacy in Chaotic Debate,” according to the New York Times. “Trump Doesn’t Denounce White Supremacists And Militias During Debate,” ABC News insists. Politico puts it this way: “Trump’s jarring white supremacist moment launches an online furor.” Even Fox and Friends got in on the dog pile.
But none of this is actually true. One need only watch the relevant clip from the debate to see that President Trump did indeed denounce white supremacists. Here is a transcript:
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