Trump: “Charlottesville was a little peanut” compared to pro-Palestinian protests happening now on college campuses.
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Donald Trump on Thursday called the 2017 white supremacist march in Charlottesville “a little peanut” compared to the current college protests around the country over the war in Gaza.
Speaking to news reporters after the latest day of witness testimony in his New York hush money criminal trial, the former president derided his likely 2024 opponent, President Joe Biden. Biden and some Democrats have attacked Republicans for criticizing alleged antisemitism at the college protests but not calling it out at the Charlottesville rally, which Trump infamously downplayed as having “very fine people on both sides.”
“We're having protests all over. He was talking about Charlottesville — Charlottesville was a little peanut, and it was nothing compared and the hate wasn't the kind of hate that you have here. This is tremendous hate,” Trump said. “We have a man that can't talk about it because he doesn't understand it. He doesn't understand what's going on with our country.”
A woman, Heather Heyer, was killed in Charlottesville when a man drove his car into her and other counterprotesters who were condemning the white nationalist rally. While some injuries have been reported at the college protests over the war in Gaza, no one has died.
