After Three Days, Trump Condemns Nazi Salutes at Supporters’ Event

Of the far-right supporters who were emboldened by his divisive and racially charged presidential campaign, Mr Trump insisted, “It’s not a group I want to energise”. And if Trump wants to see what such men do to a presidency or a family, he should look no further than Blumenthal’s lingering, malignant effect on Clinton Incorporated.

At the Times, Trump said Breitbart “is just a publication” that “covers subjects on the right” and is “certainly a much more conservative paper, to put it mildly, than The New York Times.”.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate crimes, claims an increase in incidents since Trump’s election which they say has emboldened those who believe in racist ideology.

The Anti-Defamation League has denounced its members as white supremacists.

He derided Mexican immigrants and Syrian refugees, and he painted African-Americans as a monolithic group of impoverished people living in crime-ridden hellscapes.

His forthcoming administration continues to be associated with the alt-right movement due to Stephan Bannon, who was recently tapped to be Trump’s chief strategist.

Bannon was executive chairman of Breitbart News, a website seen as a voice of the alt-right.

A spokesman for the Trump-Pence transition team said on Monday that Trump “continued to denounce racism of any kind” and was elected to be “a leader for every American”.

They also objected to his visiting of the New York Times for an on-the-record meeting on Tuesday, at which Trump described the news organization as a “world jewel”.

Trump has distanced itself from the white nationalist movement.

“Rabbis in the community, in our congregations, have given sermons about this and about their concern, and about keeping our eyes open”, Castleman said, while adding that there may have been individual congregation members who have been upset, or who supported Trump because of his pro-Israel positions.

“They cover stories like you cover stories”, he said.

The agenda of the National Policy Institute’s Saturday meeting included a breakdown of the 2016 election and plans for the growth of the alt-right.

After footage from the conference surfaced yesterday, the Holocaust Museum issued a statement condemning the “hateful rhetoric” at the white nationalist conference, including the “direct and indirect” allusions to Nazism.

Eric Kaufmann, a professor of politics at Birkbeck University in London, told The New York Times that white nationalism is “the belief that national identity should be built around white ethnicity, and that white people should therefore maintain both a demographic majority and dominance of the nation’s culture and public life”.