CNN's Dana Bash Confronts Doug Burgum On White Nationalists
Burgum said Patriot Front’s views were unacceptable but defended their right to speak, as Bash pressed him to condemn the group’s July 4 march.
- On Saturday, July 4, dozens of members of the White supremacist group Patriot Front marched in Washington, with members spotted near Union Station and the Eastern Market metro stop.
- Thomas Rousseau founded the secretive organization in 2017 following the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where counterprotester Heather Heyer was killed.
- During an interview on CNN's "State of the Union," host Dana Bash pressed Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to condemn the group's actions and values.
- Burgum replied, "What they stand for is nothing that I could possibly agree with," while defending free speech principles that allow offensive speech in the United States.
- Applauding the country's 250th anniversary, the Interior secretary referenced Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, stating "we know from our very founding that this is something that divided our nation.
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Burgum on white nationalist march: 'Nothing I could agree with'
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum condemned the ideology of the white nationalist group Patriot Front but stopped short of saying President Donald Trump should publicly denounce the organization, instead emphasizing that the First Amendment protects even offensive speech. “I think certainly what they stand for is nothing I could possibly agree with,” Burgum said on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday. “But one of the foundational principles of the Unit…
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