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The US President Donald Trump retweeted a video showing one of his supporters loudly shouting “white power” during a pro-Trump rally at a retirement complex in Florida.
The footage showed supporters and opponents of the president hurling abuse and swearing at one another. Trump has denied accusations that he is seeking to capitalise on racial tensions. His spokesman says he did not hear the “white power” comment.
In the tweet, which was later deleted, the president thanked “the great people of The Villages” – referring to the retirement community north-west of Orlando where the rally took place. “The Radical Left Do Nothing Democrats will Fall in the Fall. Corrupt Joe is shot. See you soon!!!,” he wrote.
The video included in the tweet showed a Trump supporter in a golf cart raising a clenched fist and shouting “white power”. He appeared to be responding to a protester calling him a racist and using profanities. Other anti-Trump protesters shouted “Nazi” and other accusations at the rally-goers.
Tim Scott, the only black Republican in the US Senate, said that the video was “offensive” and called on the president to remove his tweet.
“There’s no question that he should not have retweeted it and he should just take it down,” Scott said. White House spokesman Judd Deere said the president “did not hear the one statement made on the video” but saw “tremendous enthusiasm from his many supporters”.
The US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Alex Azar, said that “neither the president, his administration nor I would do anything to be supportive of white supremacy”.
