President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani Thursday branded Black Lives Matter as a "domestic terrorist group" and demanded to know why it hasn't received that classification.
“Do you know who knows that best? African Americans," Giuliani told Fox News' "Fox and Friends." "I’ve actually had them tell me, 'Why aren’t they classified as a terrorist group?' Just because they are Black, nobody can say it?"
He also compared Black Lives Matter to Antifa, saying that “both of [them] are domestic terrorist groups without any doubt.”
Giuliani's comments came while he was telling the program that his "greatest fear" is for Joe Biden to win the presidential election.
"This election is very consequential," Giuliani said. "It is the most important election, I think, of at least my lifetime and I have been alive a long time. Whoever wins, this country is going in two dramatically [different] directions. It is either going to remain a free enterprise country or become some kind of socialist country — [what] Black Lives Matter wants, Antifa, [Sen. Bernie] Sanders. Biden has agreed with it, and he is too weak to oppose it. He can't oppose anything. He looks like he can't make a decision."
And with the ongoing racial protests, being supported by the left, "this is no longer America," Giuliani said. "This is some other country. They are literally trying to overthrow our way of life. We can't have that happen with a phony election. The American people want that, they darn well better vote for it. I don't think they will."
In further comments about Black Lives Matter, Giuliani said that two of the people instrumental in its formation were "big shots in the Weather Underground" who are "convicted terrorists."
"These are killers and people who hate white people," he claimed of the movement. "They are people who hate white men in particular and they want to do away with a mother/father family. They don't think fathers are necessary. This is what we are talking about."
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