Took him 48 hours, and he looked uncomfortable saying it, probably because he knew he was attacking the heart of his base.
When the CEO of Merck announced this morning that he was resigning from the Manufacturing Advisory Council over this, it only took Trump about 4 minutes to lash out at him on Twitter. Yet it took him 48 hours to finally call out the extremists by name.
He criticized Obama and Clinton for refusing to say '"radical Islamic terrorism", yet he refuses to acknowledge the existence of or say the words "domestic terrorism". Seb Gorka, one of his advisors who is linked to the neo-Nazi movement, said that the mosque firebombing last week was probably a false flag attack by leftists; Trump hasn't said a word about it, even though it was another act of domestic terrorism.
Trump also wanted to change the name and focus of a US program for violent ideologies so that it focuses only on Islamic terrorists and stops looking at domestic terrorism:
http://tinyurl.com/y9hwz766
It appears he doesn't believe that domestic terrorism exists, probably because the solid core of his base - not all of his base by any means, just those at the heart of it - are KKK, alt-right, and white supremacists; groups that are prone to acts of domestic terrorism. This is clear from the things Davis Duke said about Trump on Saturday - remarks that Trump has not disavowed yet.
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