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RalphCramden: Joe Biden was equally loath to say anything bad about "Antifa" as Trump was to say anything bad about the Proud Boys. If Antifa is an idea, it seems to be the idea of roaming the streets beating people up (like putting them in the hospital beating them up) and burning courthouses and police stations. Why would Joe Biden not want to say something about an "idea" that bad?
He has. In an interview with Pennsylvania NBC News affiliate WGAL, reporter Barbara Barr specifically asked Biden if he condemned antifa.
BARR: “Do you condemn Antifa?”
BIDEN: “Yes I do — violence no matter who it is.”
Following the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, Biden wrote: “Protesting such brutality is right and necessary. It’s an utterly American response. But burning down communities and needless destruction is not. Violence that endangers lives is not.”
Biden addressed the nationwide George Floyd protests again in June in Philadelphia, condemning violence, looting, and the destruction of property.
And again in July in Wilmington.
Also, as we've discussed here before, significant escalations of violence during peaceful protests in some cases were sparked by White Nationalists, hoping to turn peaceful protests violent and get the media to blame BLM or 'antifa'. Please see the Umbrella Man and Boogaloo Boi Ivan Harrison Hunter, a Texas rightwing extremist, who bragged about helping to set fire to a Minneapolis police station before shooting 13 rounds at the building.
As for Dementia Don, he told the Jan 6 rioters he loved them, calls them patriots, and promises to pardon them if America is stupid enough to reelect him.
