Rise Above Movement member Ben Daley (center) attacks a woman at the "Unite the Right" rally on Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia. Another RAM member, Michael Miselis, is in the baseball cap.
At least four white supremacists who were at the August 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, have admitted that they attended the rally only to incite violence that would lead to riots, according to the Department of Justice.
Four members of a now-defunct California-based white supremacist group called Rise Above Movement have pleaded guilty to federal rioting charges in connection with the rally that sparked violence in the city on Aug. 11 and 12, 2017.
Two RAM members — Benjamin Drake Daley, 26, and Michael Paul Miselis, 30 — pleaded guilty on Friday to one count of conspiracy to riot in Charlottesville and in other political rallies in California. Two other RAM members, Cole White, 24, and Thomas Gillen, 25, have previously pleaded guilty to the same charge.
These white supremacists “trained to engage in violent confrontations and attended the Unite the Right Rally with the expectation of provoking physical conflict with counter-protestors that would lead to riots,” the FBI said on Friday.
President Trump has twice defended those who marched in Charlottesville with tiki torches and chanted “Blood and soil!” and “Jews will not replace us!” and later engaged in violent confrontations during the Unite the Right rally, leading to the death of a counterprotester, Heather Heyer, at the hands of a neo-Nazi.
kanman291 on May 4th, 2019 at 04:21 UTC »
So every time the Charlottesville riot come up, inevitably Trumps comments, about good people on both sides, make their way into it, where he is defending the protesters by saying he was talking about the people protesting the removal of the statue who weren’t neo-nazis. My question is who were these people? Who attended the unite the right rally that wasn’t a white supremacist or neo-nazi, or a counter-protester? I mean these guys are pretty representative of the attendees by all looks.
pinkjunglegym on May 4th, 2019 at 00:42 UTC »
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-ad-libbed-sides-remark-response-charlottesville-violence/story?id=49208397
Trump was giving prepared remarks. The "fine people on both sides" he added in himself, reflecting his true reluctance to condemn them.
Your_Toxo_is_showing on May 4th, 2019 at 00:28 UTC »
If it takes you 48 hours to backtrack a statement supporting people screaming, "Jews will not replace us," you're a shitty person.