Herschel Walker: I’ve seen Trump denounce white supremacy ‘many times,’ and he’s ‘not a racist’

Walker added that the debate moderator’s insistence that Trump denounce white supremacy was a “strange thing to ask” because he has “seen him denounce that many times.”

Walker continued: “I can tell you right now: Donald Trump is not a racist, and I think that’s what people need to know. And judge him on the things that he’s done, not what people tell you he’s done.”

The president responded to Walker’s appearance on Dobbs’s show by tweeting out a clip of the interview with the message, “Thank you @HerschelWalker!”

Trump was widely criticized over Tuesday’s debate for not denouncing white supremacy strongly enough when moderator Chris Wallace asked him if he would tell the groups to “stand down.”

“Sure, I’m willing to do that,” Trump told Wallace. “But I would say almost everything I see is from the left-wing, not the right-wing. I am willing to do anything. I want to see peace.”

Trump has denounced white supremacists and Nazis several times, including in 2017 following the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which left one person dead. He said at the time that “neo-Nazis and white nationalists … should be condemned totally.”