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"The View" was unanimous Friday morning in slamming Donald Trump's new comments equating the Antifa movement with white supremacists in Charlottesville.
Aboard Air Force One on Thursday, the president doubled down on his previous comments saying "both sides" shared the blame for the violence in North Carolina. "I think especially in light of the advent of Antifa, if you look at what's going on there, you know, you have some pretty bad dudes on the other side also," he said. "A lot of people are actually written, gee, Trump might have a point. I said, you got some very bad people on the other side also, which is true."
"Which is actually not true," Whoopi Goldberg clapped back at the top of the show. "This is one of those talking points that if you say it enough, it becomes real. I have to say, when you're the guy who's running everything, you need to sign the thing that says we don't believe in fascism, we don't think that's good. We don't think neo-nazism is good. We don't support that. You don't qualify that and start brining in other things."
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"It should be in and of itself. White supremacism is awful in and of itself and there should be no moral equivalency," Paula Faris added.
"His base are these people marching in Charlottesville," Joy Behar added. "That's his base, he has to make them happy. He's not making anybody happy, even Ann Coulter's turning on him."
When Faris said the anti-fascist movement is "predicated on violence," Goldberg interrupted and said she didn't "remember violent demonstrations before the gentleman who's in now got in."
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View StorySunny Hostin said she had never heard of the movement before recent events as well. "I do not think you can compare this Antifa movement with the KKK," she added, with Faris agreeing.
"The KKK has been terrorizing my community for centuries. This false equivalency is ridiculous," Hostin continued. "If Donald Trump wants to say anything about racism, he has to first talk about his being complicit in that. He ran a campaign based on racial resentment and fear. His campaign was for angry white people. Anything that he says for me, he needs to admit that he is the reason why we are seeing this racial divide in this country."
"My fear is this term Antifa, they're trying to use it to scare people so that they don't stand up against hate," she added. "When is it wrong to stand up against hate? It is never ever wrong."
