Savannah Guthrie of the Today Show got the first shot at an interview with Nick Sandmann, the Covington Catholic high school teenager, who stood his ground and faced leftist agitator, and Native American, Nathan Phillips, while he repeatedly banged a drum within inches of his face.

Initially, when the story first came out on Twitter, Sandmann was accused of being part of a crowd of #MAGA hat wearing teens who surrounded Nathan Phillips and his group at an “Indigenous Peoples March” in D.C. on Sunday, threatening them. Leftists on Twitter were saying things like the boys were “threatening” Phillips, and that they were chanting “Build the Wall.” Celebrities like Debra Messing attempted to tie them to an accused rapist who allegedly once attended their high school. Actor Ron Perlman threatened they would live a life of regret, and former comedian, Kathy Griffin begged people to “dox” (expose their identities, including their home addresses, place of work, school, etc.) the teenage boys. Within hours, the name of the boy’s high school was plastered all over social media, as well as the name of Nick Sandmann, the boy who unwillingly found himself at the center of the controversy. Within no time at all, the boys and their families were receiving death threats.

Arlen Parsa was one of the first people on Twitter to brag about securing the name of Nick Sandmann, or “the main student,” as he refers to them in his tweet. Parsa behaves as though doxing a group of young Catholic boys is some sort of blood sport, telling the left, “Hop on” his thread, “because I’m going to walk you through some deep but important stuff.” His Twitter feed continued to drop pieces about the boys, teasing that he knows where Sandmann’s mother works.

Here is just one example of a death threat against the Covington Catholic students.

CA D.J.,  “Uncle Shoes” called on his followers to “Lock the kids in the school and burn that bitch to the ground.”

Yesterday, Covington Catholic High School was closed out of concern for the number of serious threats leveled at the boys who in the end, were victims of racial, religious and political targeting by hate preachers who identify as the “Black Hebrew Israelites” and Nathan Phillips.

Today, the Today Show host, Savannah Guthrie did everything in her power to make Nick Sandmann take responsibility for the bullying he received by the fake Vietnam veteran, Nathan Phillips. When Sandmann attempted to explain that he was standing still so the conflict would die down. Guthrie attempted to make Sandmann look like he was at fault for not doing a better job of handling the conflict with the full-grown man, “Why didn’t you walk away?” Sandmann told her that he wished he would have walked away. Sandmann told her, “I didn’t want to be disrespectful to Mr. Phillips, and walk away if he was trying to talk to me.” Guthrie asked him, “What do you think that looks like?” Sandmann, who was perfectly composed, answered her perfectly, “I see it as a smile, saying that this is the best you’re going to get out of me. You won’t get any further reaction of aggression, and I’m willing to stand here, as long as you want to hit this drum in my face.” Guthrie then accused the young boy of being “aggressive” for standing there”, telling him, “you both stood your ground, and it was like a stare-down.”  Nick Sandmann, refusing to take responsibility for being bullied by a full-grown man, had the perfect reply, saying, “Mr. Phillips had his right to come up to me. I had the right to stand there.” Nick then reminded the leftist hack morning show host that their school was slandered by the Black hate preachers, Black Hebrew Israelites.

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Last night, we posted a video from the Today Show teaser, where host Savannah Guthrie tries to shame Sandmann into apologizing for standing and smiling while he was being intimidated and bullied by a full-grown man.

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Ironically, Alan Parsa, the Twitter user who did everything in his power to “out” these kids to a pack of leftist hyenas, is now complaining that Savannah Guthrie’s interview was too soft on Nick Sandmann.

On Sunday night, Nick Sandmann released a powerful letter (see below) explaining what really happened on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial while the kids waited for their buses to pick them up and take them home. After reading his statement, many individuals apologized for believing a lie and for joining the pack of leftist hyenas to attack these young boys on social media.

Here is Nick Sandmann’s statement about what really happened its entirety:

I am providing this factual account of what happened on Friday afternoon at the Lincoln Memorial to correct misinformation and outright lies being spread about my family and me.

I am the student in the video who was confronted by the Native American protestor. I arrived at the Lincoln Memorial at 4:30 p.m. I was told to be there by 5:30 p.m., when our busses were due to leave Washington for the trip back to Kentucky. We had been attending the March for Life rally, and then had split up into small groups to do sightseeing.

When we arrived, we noticed four African American protestors who were also on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. I am not sure what they were protesting, and I did not interact with them. I did hear them direct derogatory insults at our school group.

The protestors said hateful things. They called us “racists,” “bigots,” “white crackers,” “faggots,” and “incest kids.” They also taunted an African American student from my school by telling him that we would “harvest his organs.” I have no idea what that insult means, but it was startling to hear.

Because we were being loudly attacked and taunted in public, a student in our group asked one of our teacher chaperones for permission to begin our school spirit chants to counter the hateful things that were being shouted at our group. The chants are commonly used at sporting events. They are all positive in nature and sound like what you would hear at any high school. Our chaperone gave us permission to use our school chants. We would not have done that without obtaining permission from the adults in charge of our group.

At no time did I hear any student chant anything other than the school spirit chants. I did not witness or hear any students chant “build that wall” or anything hateful or racist at any time. Assertions to the contrary are simply false. Our chants were loud because we wanted to drown out the hateful comments that were being shouted at us by the protestors.

After a few minutes of chanting, the Native American protestors, who I hadn’t previously noticed, approached our group. The Native American protestors had drums and were accompanied by at least one person with a camera.

The protestor everyone has seen in the video began playing his drum as he waded into the crowd, which parted for him. I did not see anyone try to block his path. He locked eyes with me and approached me, coming within inches of my face. He played his drum the entire time he was in my face.

I never interacted with this protestor. I did not speak to him. I did not make any hand gestures or other aggressive moves. To be honest, I was startled and confused as to why he had approached me. We had already been yelled at by another group of protestors, and when the second group approached I was worried that a situation was getting out of control where adults were attempting to provoke teenagers.

I believed that by remaining motionless and calm, I was helping to diffuse the situation. I realized everyone had cameras and that perhaps a group of adults was trying to provoke a group of teenagers into a larger conflict. I said a silent prayer that the situation would not get out of hand.

During the period of the drumming, a member of the protestor’s entourage began yelling at a fellow student that we “stole our land” and that we should “go back to Europe.” I heard one of my fellow students begin to respond. I motioned to my classmate and tried to get him to stop engaging with the protestor, as I was still in the mindset that we needed to calm down tensions.

I never felt like I was blocking the Native American protestor. He did not make any attempt to go around me. It was clear to me that he had singled me out for a confrontation, although I am not sure why.

The engagement ended when one of our teachers told me the busses had arrived and it was time to go. I obeyed my teacher and simply walked to the busses. At that moment, I thought I had diffused the situation by remaining calm, and I was thankful nothing physical had occurred.

I never understood why either of the two groups of protestors were engaging with us, or exactly what they were protesting at the Lincoln Memorial. We were simply there to meet a bus, not become central players in a media spectacle. This is the first time in my life I’ve ever encountered any sort of public protest, let alone this kind of confrontation or demonstration.

I was not intentionally making faces at the protestor. I did smile at one point because I wanted him to know that I was not going to become angry, intimidated or be provoked into a larger confrontation. I am a faithful Christian and practicing Catholic, and I always try to live up to the ideals my faith teaches me – to remain respectful of others, and to take no action that would lead to conflict or violence.

I harbor no ill will for this person. I respect this person’s right to protest and engage in free speech activities, and I support his chanting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial any day of the week. I believe he should re-think his tactics of invading the personal space of others, but that is his choice to make.

I am being called every name in the book, including a racist, and I will not stand for this mob-like character assassination of my family’s name. My parents were not on the trip, and I strive to represent my family in a respectful way in all public settings.

I have received physical and death threats via social media, as well as hateful insults. One person threatened to harm me at school, and one person claims to live in my neighborhood. My parents are receiving death and professional threats because of the social media mob that has formed over this issue.

I love my school, my teachers and my classmates. I work hard to achieve good grades and to participate in several extracurricular activities. I am mortified that so many people have come to believe something that did not happen – that students from my school were chanting or acting in a racist fashion toward African Americans or Native Americans. I did not do that, do not have hateful feelings in my heart, and did not witness any of my classmates doing that.

I cannot speak for everyone, only for myself. But I can tell you my experience with Covington Catholic is that students are respectful of all races and cultures. We also support everyone’s right to free speech. I am not going to comment on the words or account of Mr. Phillips, as I don’t know him and would not presume to know what is in his heart or mind. Nor am I going to comment further on the other protestors, as I don’t know their hearts or minds, either.

I have read that Mr. Phillips is a veteran of the United States Marines. I thank him for his service and am grateful to anyone who puts on the uniform to defend our nation. If anyone has earned the right to speak freely, it is a U.S. Marine veteran.

I can only speak for myself and what I observed and felt at the time. But I would caution everyone passing judgement based on a few seconds of video to watch the longer video clips that are on the internet, as they show a much different story than is being portrayed by people with agendas.

I provided this account of events to the Diocese of Covington so they may know exactly what happened, and I stand ready and willing to cooperate with any investigation they are conducting.

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