Charlottesville
On the night of Aug. 11, 2017, Neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klansmen and other white supremacists marched through the University of Virginia campus bearing torches and terrorizing students with chants of “Blood and soil” and “Jews will not replace us.”
“This represents a turning point for the people of this country,” then–KKK leader David Duke declared at the time. “We’re going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump because he said he’s going to take our country back.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denounced the removal of hundreds of Confederate statues across the United States. Kennedy Jr. criticized the removal of Confederate monuments as “destroying history,” adding there were “heroes in the Confederacy who didn’t have slaves.” However, he admitted to idolizing Robert E. Lee, a racist general in the rebel army who owned slaves. Trump has made similar comments in support of the monuments to traitors and insurrectionists who fought the Union.
Confederate statues and monuments were erected at the height of the Jim Crow era to gaslight Southerners on the Lost Cause myth that secession was not about slavery but rather a noble defense of Southern values of states’ rights.
In this photo, the statue of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest is put up along Interstate 65 in Nashville, Tenn., in 1998. Forrest was also the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
Tim Scott, the Senate’s only Black Republican, claimed that Trump’s conviction would help Republicans win over Black men who “are so fed up with this two-tiered justice system.”
For $299 a pair, a Trump-licensed company is selling sneakers with a photo depicting the assassination attempt — complete with blood on his cheek and his hand raised in a fist.
While in the White House, Trump suggested that disabled people “should just die,” and in the 1970s, he used the N-word, his nephew Fred C. Trump III claims in his memoir.
Crime has declined since Mr. Biden’s inauguration. The violent crime rate is now at its lowest point in more than four decades, and property crime is also at its lowest level in many decades.