PRESIDENT Donald Trump shared a video on Sunday of one of his apparent supporters shouting "white power" — and called those in the clip "great people."
The video shows pro- and anti-Trump protesters in The Villages — a large community for those 55 years and older in Sumter, Florida — clashing with one another over politics.
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The White House said on Sunday after Trump deleted the video from his Twitter feed that the president didn't hear the man shout "white power" before sharing the video.
In the two-minute-long edited clip, pro-Trump demonstrators are seen riding in a golf cart procession, and locals holding anti-Trump signs are seen standing nearby.
Shouting and chanting ensue between the two groups before a pro-Trump supporter driving a golf cart shouts, roughly eight seconds into the video: "White power!"
"There you go, white power," an anti-Trump protester says, seemingly in disbelief, before saying to a fellow demonstrator: "You hear that?"
As the video continues, anti-Trump protesters are seen shouting at the Trump supporters: "F**k Trump."
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"Nasty language," one woman on a golf cart says. "Listen to your president if you want nasty language, you idiot!" the protester, holding a sign that describes Trump as a "bigot and racist," shouts.
A man seen wearing a "Veterans for Trump" shirt is then seen getting out of a golf cart as the anti-Trump protesters loudly curse and ask where a police officer is — before then apparently calling the man a "racist Nazi pig."
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The same woman repeatedly calls the Trump supporters "racist Nazi pigs."
Trump tweeted of the video: "Thank you to the great people of The Villages. The Radical Left Do Nothing Democrats will Fall in the Fall. Corrupt Joe is shot. See you soon!!!"
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said on CNN on Sunday morning after anchor Jake Tapper played the video on air: "I've not seen that video or that tweet, but obviously neither the President, his administration nor I would do anything to be supportive of white supremacy or anything that would support discrimination of any kind."
Tapper asked Azar if Trump's retweet of the video was a mistake, to which he declined to comment further, but did say: "But obviously the president and I and his whole administration would stand against any acts of white supremacy."
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Separately on CNN, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, the only Black Republican senator, said Trump "should not have retweeted the video."
"He should just take it down," Scott said. "It is indefensible."
He went on to say the entire video, which was filled with people shouting profanity, "was offensive."
"Certainly the comment about the white power was offensive. There's no question, we could play politics with it or we can't, I'm not going to."
In recent weeks, Trump's tweets have come under fire by Twitter, prompting him to threaten the social media giant with new regulation or even shutting it down.
In May, Trump tweeted that expanding mail-in voting “would be a free for all on cheating, forgery and the theft of Ballots."
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Under the tweets, there is now a link reading “Get the facts about mail-in ballots” that guides users to a Twitter “moments” page with fact checks and news stories about Trump’s unsubstantiated claims.
Twitter had earlier flagged a tweet from Trump and another from the White House's official account that warned protesters in Minnesota following the death of George Floyd that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”
Twitter also flagged an edited video Trump shared in June about a "racist baby" with a CNN chyron on it.
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