June 22, 2021 - Triggered - Donald Trump Jr
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| Okay, guys. So this is an interesting story. | |
| Watch this video and listen to the questions. | |
| This is a reporter questioning Rhode Island Senator Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse about his wife and their families having been members of an all-white, all-white private beach club for decades. | |
| His response is pretty amazing, and I wonder if Republicans would get the same treatment. | |
| Give it a watch. Let me know your thoughts, and I'll be back with some commentary. | |
| Okay. A little close. | |
| Okay, back in 2017, you had expressed concerns about the membership of the all-white Baileys Beach Club, said that you hoped it would become more diverse. | |
| Now, your family's been members, your wife is one of the largest shareholders. | |
| Has there been any traction in that? | |
| Are there any minority members of the club now? | |
| I think the people who are running the place are still working on that, and I'm sorry it hasn't happened yet. | |
| Do you have concerns in 2021? | |
| I mean, obviously, it's been four years. | |
| You had remarks on the floor following the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, saying, you know, hoping to root out systemic racism in the country. | |
| Your thoughts on an elite, all-white, wealthy club again in this day and age. | |
| You know, should these clubs continue to exist? | |
| It's a long tradition in Rhode Island, and there are many of them. | |
| And I think we just need to work our way through the issues. | |
| Thank you. Okay, so it's a long tradition in Rhode Island to be racist and to be segregationist. | |
| We just need to work through the issues. | |
| He's known about the issues since 2017. | |
| Like, it's not a new issue. | |
| He's been aware of it. | |
| And I assume he's still there. | |
| I mean, has Sheldon Whitehouse resigned from his racist and segregationist beach club yet? | |
| If not, why not? | |
| Have the media even asked him that question? | |
| Have the media called the club to see how those kinds of policies could stand in 2021? | |
| Are there protests out in front of the club? | |
| Where's the outrage? | |
| Where's the outrage? | |
| You see some Democrats responding to some of the tweets I've seen about it like, well, there may not be wealthy enough people of minority status in Rhode Island. | |
| B.S. There's plenty. | |
| It's just a segregationist club. | |
| Let's stop pretending it. | |
| But again, there's no outrage. | |
| Imagine this was a Republican. | |
| Imagine it was what they believed to be a Republican institution. | |
| They'd be boycotting. | |
| They'd be naming names. | |
| They'd give you a list of the membership. | |
| Right? They should just rename it Sheldon White Club. | |
| Because that's what it is. | |
| Okay? These things exist. | |
| They shouldn't, but they still do. | |
| But when it's a Democrat, it's rules for them and rules for us. | |
| And there's a double standard to all of this. | |
| He was asked about it originally in 2017. | |
| And four years later, he's still working on it, guys. | |
| He's really putting in an effort. | |
| He hasn't resigned from a club that has segregationist policies or racist policies. | |
| He's still a member because he likes the beach. | |
| Why? You think a Republican could get away with not leaving that club? | |
| Why hasn't Sheldon Whitehouse resigned from his white club? | |
| I want to know. | |
| And I think you should too. | |
| Maybe we should write him. | |
| Because the whole long-standing tradition Yeah, that's the problem, isn't it? | |
| Isn't that the long-standard tradition we've heard is a problem with anything else that's even remotely similar? | |
| Certainly if it involves a conservative or isn't protecting a Democrat senator? | |
| I understand these kinds of plays has history, but that's a ridiculous response. | |
| You're a sitting senator. | |
| Your whole party does nothing but race bait and play that card day in and day out. | |
| And you're to tell me that, well, you know, we're going to keep pushing membership to do something about it. | |
| I'm going to still attend, of course, because I'm not going to give it up. | |
| But it's a problem and we've got to do something about it. | |
| I don't want to hear any more about this nonsense from the Democrats that have such a double standard. | |
| It's liberal privilege at its finest. | |
| I wish I would have known about this example when I was writing the book. | |
| But again, if Sheldon Whitehouse was a Republican, this would be a major story. | |
| They wouldn't be covering it up, okay? | |
| Bailey's Beach Club... | |
| Would be the front page of every place. | |
| There'd be activists, protesters in front of the place for months. | |
| They'd be taking pictures and naming names of all the members as they go in and out of their white-only rich person club. | |
| Okay? I mean, my father did the opposite with Mar-a-Lago when he opened it up to everyone because those kinds of places existed in Palm Beach. | |
| Okay? He did the opposite. | |
| Like, way before it was ever woke or popular to do so because it was the right thing to do. | |
| That's what my dad did. | |
| Yet, they'll tar and feather him. | |
| Imagine the shoes were reversed and this was Donald Trump. | |
| They'd go nuts. | |
| But because it's Sheldon Whitehouse, he'll get a pass and nothing will happen. | |
| Welcome to the Democrat Party, right? | |
| They'll use these kinds of situations to their advantage, and when it happens to them, what happened? | |
| I don't know. I don't know. | |
| Oh, I didn't realize there was a problem. | |
| Well, we'll go back to looking at that for another four years. | |
| Enough, Sheldon. Man up. | |
| Do the right thing, Sheldon. | |
| I have a feeling you won't, because you're not capable of that. |
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