BlazeTV's Glenn Beck defends a white nationalist Charlottesville demonstrator
Beck: “This happened in 2017, and he's just been charged with a felony for marching in a demonstration with a torch. He's just been charged with a felony, just now”
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Citation From the May 18, 2023, edition of BlazeTV's The Glenn Beck Show
GLENN BECK (HOST): We're going to show you tonight 170 -- I asked my researchers, show me just the violations, the criminal violations that we have absolute proof of, that Hunter Biden -- and I thought how, you know, many crimes do you think we have proof of? How many crimes?
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170. 170, and none of them, no one has taken action.
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You'll be happy to know that finally, finally the Vermont guy that everybody's been talking about, that had a torch at the Charlottesville rally -- go back in your memory. I mean, I know it just happened and it's still on everybody's mind. It was the second worst thing that's ever happened to America since the Civil War. But the Charlottesville -- this guy wasn't charged with beating anybody or anything, he just had a torch. And apparently --
STEVE BURGUIERE (CO-HOST): Open flame.
BECK: An open flame. Well, apparently in Virginia it --
BURGUIERE: I hope that's part of the crime --
BECK: It is a crime because, you know, Klan. They kinda like, hey, nobody carrying around anything on fire.
BURGUIERE: Okay. I mean, it's a good safety tip --
BECK: It's a good safety tip, but it's also with the Klan, you can kind of understand.
BURGUIERE: Sure.
BECK: Anyway, this happened in 2017, and he's just been charged with a felony for marching in a demonstration with a torch. He's just been charged with a felony, just now.
BURGUIERE: What -- what year? Is this a recorded show?
BECK: No.
BURGUIERE: Okay.
BECK: No. It's currently 2023.
BURGUIERE: Okay.
BECK: It happened in 2017, they just busted him and charged him with a felony. By the way, 170 crimes? No, nothing. But that damn torch?