DEBATES/POLICE/RACISM: [Reporter: “Mr. President, can you explain what you meant last night when you said that the Proud Boys should ‘stand back and stand by’?”]
“I don’t know who the Proud Boys are. I mean, you’ll have to give me a definition, because I really don’t know who they are. I can only say they have to stand down, let law enforcement do their work. Law enforcement will do the work more and more. As people see how bad this radical, liberal, Democrat movement is and how weak — the law enforcement is going to come back stronger and stronger.
But again, I don’t know who Proud Boys are. But whoever they are, they have to stand down. Let law enforcement do their work.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump Before Marine One Departure,” whitehouse.gov, Sep. 30, 2020