On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN Tonight,” radio host John Fredericks, who also served as co-chair of President Trump’s campaign in Virginia, criticized the president’s statement about Charlottesville and urged the president to state he doesn’t want the support of white supremacists.
Fredericks said, “Do, look, while many of us appreciated the president’s statements today, it was a day late, it was a dollar short, and it was woefully inadequate. What this president has to do, what President Trump has to do is he has to unequivocally, totally excommunicate these people from his — from the party, his movement, things he believes in. He should say, ‘I don’t want you. I don’t want your votes at all.'”
He further cited Barry Goldwater and William F. Buckley Jr. excommunicating the John Birch Society from the conservative movement before stating, “What President Trump has to do is tell these people they have no place. Look, these are domestic terrorists, Don. We’re not talking about removing statues. They were walking around the streets of Charlottesville with swastikas, with riot gear, with helmets. Who does this?”
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