“Go ahead, sir,” Wallace said.
“I would say almost everything I see is from the left wing, not from the right wing,” Trump said.
Seconds later, when Trump asked Wallace for the name of a specific group, Biden said, “Proud Boys.”
Trump responded, “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by. But I’ll tell you what, somebody’s got to do something about Antifa.”
Proud Boys interpreted Trump’s comments as a show of support for the group.
Tuberville, the former Auburn University football coach who has been endorsed by the president, said he believed that Trump answered Wallace’s question, affirming that he did not support white supremacist groups.
“Sure I would,” Tuberville said in speaking against white supremacist groups himself. “I heard Chris Wallace ask him, ‘Would you condemn them?’ and he said, ‘Sure.’ And then he kept going. To me, sure means yeah. That’s how I would take it.”
As for the Proud Boys, Tuberville said he had no knowledge of the group before the debate. He also said he opposed violent protests.
“I’ve never heard of Proud Boys,” Tuberville said. “What about them? You’re going to have radical right and radical left. You’ve got antifa. We need to quit burning our cities and looting. Hey, I’m all for peaceful protest. But we don’t need people out there being shot, people challenging the police. We need law and order. Once you lose law and order on your streets, we lose all our freedoms. We haven’t had that much. Up north, what you see on TV, it’s anarchy. I don’t know much about those groups.”
In speaking to about 40 people at Hotel Red Bay, Tuberville made only a passing comment about the debate. He focused his comments on his desire to “give back” to the people of Alabama as the motivation for his first foray into politics.
“(Trump) went up there with a business mentality and a love of this country and started saying, ‘We’re going to do it this way’ and they’ve been fighting him ever since,” Tuberville said. “All you had to do was look last night during the debate. A lot of times, he was having to fight the moderator. The guy’s bringing stats out on him. Hey, wait a minute, just let them go.”
Before his speech, Tuberville went through the small room and gave a fist-bump to all in attendance before posing with everyone who wanted a picture afterward.
“I’m for guns, our Second Amendment,” Tuberville said in wrapping up his speech. “I’m against abortion. I’m for religious freedom. Don’t tell me where to go and when I can’t go to church. We’ve got to get God back in our schools, folks.”
He also voiced support for Amy Coney Barrett, who Trump last week nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court.
“I’m for conservative, Christian judges. We’ve got one we’re fixing to put in, who has been nominated and we’re going to confirm this lady hopefully by the election. We’ve got to get her in. And we’re going to re-elect Donald J. Trump. We’re going to get him back in office.”
This story originally appeared on the AL.com website here
