The former US president said the Charlottesville protests were "insignificant" compared to the Palestinian student protests.
Former US President Donald Trump claimed that the attack on Palestinian universities was more racist than the white nationalist protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.
Trump told reporters outside his impeachment hearing in New York on Thursday that the "Job Act" was "nothing" compared to racism among young people learning to protest the Gaza war.
Trump, we're protesting everything, it's over," he said as he left the Manhattan courtroom where he was being sued for paying money to former movie Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential election. "Charlottesville is a pea in a pod, it doesn't compare to that - and hate ain't no hate like that, no,
Trump's comments come after the Republican presidential candidate described the Charlottesville rally in a Social Truth report released Wednesday as "building on protests and anti-Israel attacks occurring all over our country."
The White House condemned Trump's remarks .
"Minimizing the venom of anti-Semitism and white supremacy on display in Charlottesville is disgusting and divisive," press director Andrew Bates said in a statement.
United States President Joe Biden, who is expected to face Trump in the November primaries, has repeatedly cited the Charlottesville protests as a key moment in his decision to take on Trump in 2020. At an event on August 11, 2017, white people protested the removal of a statue of the Confederate General. Robert E. Lee said, "You'll never change us!" and “The Jews will not replace us!”
A day later, the self-described innocent James Alex Fields Jr. He deliberately drove his car into a group of protesters near the racetrack, killing Heather Heyer through Heyer.
Trump's statement that "both sides are to blame" for the attack is one of the most controversial moments of his presidency.
There was no similar violent incident in the pro-Palestinian protest at many American universities, including George Washington University, Yale University, New York University (NYU), Columbia University and the University of Texas.
However, reports of harassment and threats against Jewish students were condemned by leaders such as Biden, House Speaker Mike Johnson, New York Governor Eric Adams and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Footage posted on social media over the weekend revealed protesters telling students to "go back to Poland" and saying that October 7 "will be your every day"; this refers to the Hamas attack on Israel that resulted in 1,139 deaths.
Chabad of Columbia University (a division of the International Orthodox Jewish Movement) also reported that protesters told Jewish students, “You have no culture,” “All you do is space,” and “Go back to Europe.”
On Sunday, a group of student activists on behalf of the protesters issued a statement declaring themselves "incredible people" and condemning "any form of hatred or development."