I know very little
President Donald Trump explains it all for you, NBC Town Hall, Miami, October 15, 2020
SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: You were asked point blank to denounce white supremacy. In the moment, you didn’t. You asked some follow up questions. “Who, specifically?” A couple of days later, on a different show-
TRUMP: Oh, you always do this.
GUTHRIE: … you denounced white supremacy.
TRUMP: No, you always do this.
GUTHRIEL My question to you is-
TRUMP: You’ve done this to me, and everybody-
GUTHRIE:… why does it seem like-
TRUMP: I denounce white supremacy. Okay?
GUTHRIE: You did, two days later.
TRUMP: I’ve denounced white supremacy for years, but you always do it. You always start off with the question. You didn’t ask Joe Biden, whether or not he denounces Antifa. I watched him on the same basic show with Lester Holt, and he was asking questions like Biden was a child.
GUTHRIE: Well, so this is a little bit of a dodge.
TRUMP: So, are you ready? Are you… Wait. Are you listening? I denounce white supremacy.
GUTHRIE: Okay.
TRUMP: What’s your next question?
GUTHRIE: Do you feel, it feels sometimes you’re hesitant to do so, like you wait a beat.
TRUMP: Hesitant? Here we go again. Every time… In fact, my people came, “I’m sure they’ll ask you the white supremacy question.” I denounce white supremacy.
GUTHRIE: Okay.
TRUMP: And frankly, you want to know something? I denounce Antifa, and I denounce these people on the left that are burning down our cities, that are run by Democrats who don’t know what they’re doing-
GUTHRIE: All right, while we’re denouncing, let me ask you about QAnon. It is this theory that Democrats are a satanic pedophile ring and that you are the savior, of that. Now can you just, once and for all, state that that is completely not true, and-
TRUMP: So, I know [crosstalk]-
GUTHRIE: … disavow QAnon-
TRUMP: Yeah.
GUTHRIE: … in its entirety?
TRUMP: I know nothing about QAnon.
GUTHRIE: I just told you.
TRUMP: I know very little. You told me, but what you tell me, doesn’t necessarily make it fact. I hate to say that. I know nothing about it. I do know they are very much against pedophilia. They fight it very hard. But I know nothing about it. If you’d like me to-
GUTHRIE: They believe that it is a Satanic cult run by the deep state.
TRUMP: … study the subject. I’ll tell you what I do know about. I know about Antifa, and I know about the radical left, and I know how violent they are and how vicious they are. And I know how they are burning down cities run by Democrats, not run by Republicans.
GUTHRIE: Republican Senator Ben Sasse said, quote, “QAnon is nuts and real leaders call conspiracy theories, conspiracy theories.”
TRUMP: He may be right.
GUTHRIE: Why not just say, it’s crazy and not true?
TRUMP: Can I be honest? He may be right. I just don’t know about QAnon.
GUTHRIE: You do know.
TRUMP: I don’t know. No, I don’t know. I don’t know. You tell me all about it.
GUTHRIE: Let me ask you another thing.
TRUMP: Let’s waste the whole show. You start off with white supremacy. I denounce it. You start off with something else. Let’s go. Keep asking me these questions. But let me just-
GUTHRIE: Okay, I do have one more in this vein.
TRUMP: … let me just tell you. What I do hear about it, is they are very strongly against pedophilia. And I agree with that. I mean, I do agree with that-
GUTHRIE: Okay.
TRUMP: … and I agree with it very strongly.
GUTHRIE: But there’s not a Satanic pedophile cult being run by-
TRUMP: I have no idea. I know nothing about them.
GUTHRIE: You don’t know that? Okay.
TRUMP: No, I don’t know that.
GUTHRIE: You, just this week-
TRUMP: And neither do you know that.
GUTHRIE: Okay. Just this week, you retweeted-
TRUMP: Why aren’t you asking me about Antifa? Why aren’t you asking me about the radical left?
GUTHRIE: Because you just, because you’re volunteering it.
TRUMP: Why aren’t you asking Joe Biden questions about, why doesn’t he condemn Antifa? Why does he say it doesn’t exist?
GUTHRIE: Because you’re here, before me.
TRUMP: Antifa, no, excuse me. That’s so cute. Antifa exists. They’re vicious, they’re violent. They kill people, and they’re burning down our cities. And they happen to be radical left.
GUTHRIE: Just this week, you retweeted to your 87 million followers, a conspiracy theory that Joe Biden orchestrated to have SEAL Team Six, the Navy SEAL Team Six, killed to cover up the fake death of Bin Laden. Now, why would you send a lie like that to your followers?
TRUMP: I know nothing about it, can I [crosstalk]-
GUTHRIE: You retweeted it.
TRUMP: That was a retweet. That was an opinion of somebody-
GUTHRIE: But-
TRUMP: …. and that was a retweet. I’ll put it out there. People can decide for themselves. I don’t take a position.
GUTHRIE: I don’t get that, you’re the President. You’re not like someone’s crazy uncle who can just-
TRUMP: No, no. No, no.
GUTHRIE: … retweet whatever.
TRUMP: That was a retweet. And I do a lot of retweets. And frankly, because the media is so fake, and so corrupt, if I didn’t have social media… I don’t call it Twitter, I call it social media. I wouldn’t be able to get the word out. And the word is-
GUTHRIE: Well, the word is false.
TRUMP: … and you know what the word is? The word is very simple. We’re building our country, stronger and better than it’s ever been before.
GUTHRIE: Let’s stop-
TRUMP: And that’s what’s happening. And everybody knows it.
GUTHRIE: Okay, we’ve got a bunch of questions for you.
TRUMP: You know what else the word is? We’re winning in a lot of states.
GUTHRIE: Okay.
TRUMP: We’re winning in a lot of States. You’re going to see that.