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Combative and insistent, President Donald Trump declared anew Tuesday "there is blame on both sides" for the deadly violence last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, appearing to once again equate the actions of white supremacist groups and those protesting them. The president's comments effectively wiped away the more conventional statement he delivered at the White House a day earlier when he branded members of the KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists who take part in violence as "criminals and thugs."
Congressman Tom Garrett, a Republican who represents the 5th District, said he had "no idea who he was or what he stood for" when he posed for a photo months ago with Jason Kessler, organizer of Saturday's Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.
White nationalists held a rally and killed at least one counter-protester in Charlottesville, Virginia, August 12, as reported by the Washington Post and AP in this Boston Globe article . Read this article carefully and you will see how America's liberal-establishment wing of the ruling class bear enormous responsibility for helping white nationalist organizations recruit working-class whites.
A key member of President Donald Trump's National Diversity Council called on White House chief strategist Steve Bannon to resign following the president's belated response to violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. On Tuesday, Javier Palomarez, the president and CEO of the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, called Trump's response to Charlottesville "shallow, belated and feckless," saying that it made sense why a number of high-profile CEOs let Trump's manufacturing council following the statement.
A fourth business leader resigned Tuesday from President Donald Trump's White House jobs council in the latest sign that corporate America's romance with Trump is faltering following his equivocal original response to violence by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia. The parade of departing leaders now includes the chief executives for Merck, Under Armour and Intel and now the president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing.
The Nazi flags and salutes in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend were a tough sight for anyone who had anything to do with the bloodiest war in human history. "I signed up to fight Nazis 73 years ago and I'll do it again if I have to," tweeted World War II veteran and former Michigan Rep. John Dingell.
Emboldened and proclaiming victory after a bloody weekend in Virginia, white nationalists are planning more demonstrations to promote their agenda after the violence that left a woman dead and dozens injured. The University of Florida said white provocateur Richard Spencer, whose appearances sometimes stoke unrest, is seeking permission to speak there next month.
President Donald Trump is back in the New York skyscraper that bears his name as the furor over his reaction to race-fueled clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend shows few signs of dying down. Protesters on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue tried to spoil Trump's homecoming Monday night with signs bearing messages like "stop the hate, stop the lies" and chanting "shame, shame, shame" and "not my president!" After two days of public equivocation and internal White House debate, the president condemned white supremacist groups by name on Monday, declaring "racism is evil".
President Donald Trump expressed condolences for the death of Heather Heyer, who was killed by a moving car in Charlottesville Saturday. He also mourned the deaths of two state troopers.
President Donald Trump speaks as Kenneth Frazier, chairman and CEO of Merck, looks on during a listening session with manufacturing CEOs on Feb. 23 in the State Dining Room of the White House.
Ohio officials have granted a woman's request to have President Donald Trump's mysterious tweeted typo, "covfefe," on her license plate. Ohio officials have granted a woman's request to have President Donald Trump's mysterious tweeted typo, "covfefe," on her license plate.
The group marched through the Fan District to the Lee Monument to Jackson Ward. The march was held a day after a white supremacist... President Donald Trump said Monday that "racism is evil" as he condemned the KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists as "criminals and thugs."
Bowing to pressure from right and left, President Donald Trump condemned white supremacist groups by name on Monday, declaring "racism is evil" after two days of public equivocation and internal White House debate over the deadly race-fueled clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia. In a hastily arranged statement at the White House, Trump branded members of the KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists who take part in violence as "criminals and thugs."
During violent protests, when it was made clear to Americans who the "enemy" is, President Trump's 2020 reelection campaign released a new TV ad " Let President Trump Do His Job ," targeting a different enemy: the mainstream press and Democrats. Despite the terrorist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, when President Trump refused to call out the violent white supremacists, KKK and neo-Nazis, the tone deaf ad was still released.
Emboldened and proclaiming victory after a bloody weekend in Virginia, white nationalists are planning more demonstrations to promote their agenda following the violence that left a woman dead and dozens injured. The University of Florida said white provocateur Richard Spencer, whose appearances sometimes stoke unrest, is seeking permission to speak there next month.
The incident in Charlottesville started as a rally against the city's plans to remove a Confederate statue. The Department of Justice opened a federal civil rights investigation into the weekend's violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
In his carefully worded statement Monday, Trump condemned members of the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and white supremacists as “repugnant.” He vowed that his administration would crack down on those who perpetrate “racist violence.” He called for national unity. It was the type of statement Americans have come to expect from their presidents after racially charged incidents, like the deadly violence that erupted Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia.
President Trump is returning to Washington today as both Democrats and Republicans push him to take a stronger stand against white nationalist violence. President Trump waves as he walks from Marine One to board Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., on his way back to Washington on Monday morning, Aug. 14, 2017.
As President Donald Trump remained out of sight, pressure mounted from both sides of the aisle for him to explicitly condemn white supremacists and hate groups involved in deadly, race-fueled clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia. Trump, who has been at his New Jersey golf club on a working vacation, was set to make a one-day return to Washington on Monday to sign an executive action on China's trade practices.
Trump hasn't personally denounced Nazism since a white nationalist rally devolved into chaos and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, this weekend. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday that a deadly vehicular attack against a crowd of protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend qualified as "domestic terrorism" - and that President Donald Trump did an adequate job of condemning it.