Pamela Geller
Underzog
Posted on 08/15/2017 2:18:41 PM PDT by Hadean
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump told reporters Tuesday that the counter-protesters demonstrating against white nationalism were also to blame for the violence at race-fueled riots in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend.
“There are two sides to a story. I thought what took place was a horrible moment for the country, but there are two sides to a story,” the president said at Trump Tower in Manhattan.
He also said the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville was "very important" to the people who participated in the march, and asked whether opponents of such monuments were also prepared to take down statues to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson because they, too, owned slaves.
"I wonder is it George Washington next?" he asked.
His remarks double down on his remarks Saturday, threatening to undo any goodwill the president received by denouncing the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis during a statement at the White House on Monday. The president was criticized for what many, including politicians on both sides of the aisle, saw as an initially tepid response in which he said “many sides” were to blame for the violence that killed one woman and injured 19 other people.
Trump defended the 48 hour delay Tuesday, saying he “wanted to know the facts” before condemning the white nationalists. He then equated the white supremacists on the right to the “alt-left.”
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Yes, and the theater is provided by the MSM/Democrat complex. They are giving the Antifa a megaphone that grossly exaggerates their numbers.
Trump’s words today cut through that beautifully. And the MSM/Democrat response lays bare their corruption.
Thanks to Trump today, a lot more Americans are seeing through this BS.
And the MSM/Democrats have no clue!
What Department of Justice?/s
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Does allahpundit hate Trump or loves antifa or both? He is raging on Trump over this.
Puts the left in an interesting place. Will they defend antifa or will they concede that they are extremists?
The shock of the election rendered them blithering nuts.
They were living within a delusion; and got smacked by reality.
The President is trying to keep on message despite the hysteria and the pandering by Newt Gingrich and Senators Cruz and Rubio. Pres. Trump NEEDS Steve Bannon to keep the steel in his spine!
Trump, 100% Correct...right on the money. Culprits are: Democrat, Virginia, Governor, Terry McAullife, the Mayor of Charlottesville, and the Assistant Mayor of Charlottesvile, all Democrats. The truth shall surface!!!
Pamela Geller
He called Friday Night good. WTF? A torch rally where people chant Nazi slogans is an anathema in America. Trump had his moment to attack the LEft, and destroyed his message by shilling for the Alt-Rigth Nazis who support him.
Well let us know where we can meet you. I can’t tell you how happy I am to know that we can stand shoulder to shoulder and let these Antifa folks know that these are OUR streets. We can let those Antifa thugs know that we are not intimidated by bags of urine and feces, we won’t back down in the face of fire extinguishers filled with acid. We freepers will bury them with cobblestones and bricks before they get near us. We are so numerous they will need a D9 bulldozer to get out from under the mountain of rubble we will bury them under.
Be sure to let the libertarians know that we Constitutional Conservatives are so numerous and so filled with rage we don’t need any of their dope smoking morons in our ranks. And we don’t hate Jews and blacks we welcome them. But if you have ever been on welfare, we don’t want you. Oh, and if you are an economic conservative but think abortion is a sin, stay the hell away from us. Because every one with a brain knows you have to be a Christian to be a Constitutional conservative. But never fear, there are so many brave freepers that are willing to fearlessly take on these ruthless thugs we don’t need help.
And this is gonna make things so much easier when the smoke clears because everyone will know that we accomplished all this on our own and they can all just go to hell. We don’t need their help, thank you very much!
Too late, I stole from someone else, who wanted it repeated.
Thats the name liberals created so they can lump all right aka- conservative thinking folks into the same group as the “ultra right” white nationalists and white supremacists. All of us damn white conservatives are to blame for everything. We are all sprung from the same evil loin.
Havent you heard of the uproar from the Nazis and white folk across Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, North and South Dakota? Some of the stuff that evil white conservatives from Wyoming and Montana are doing is just down right appalling !
“I have still yet to see anyone dressed as the klan”
Exactly. No evidence of any neonazis either.
For the media, they were neonazis simply because they were protesting the removal of the statue.
Dont worry, Timpangos is gonna meet up with us and all the other freepers and we are gonna simply CRUSH Antifa. There are so many of us and we aren’t gonna take it any more. Oh, and don’t worry, there won’t be any White Nationalists there because we are letting them no that we are so strong, so numerous, and so pissed off we don’t need their kind. And be sure to bring all your friends. They don’t have to be freepers. They can be Black or Jews. This strategy is gonna swell our ranks by millions because there are so many Constitutional COnservative Blacks and Jews out there that we are gonna unnumbered those Antifa thugs by 200 to one. But make sure your friends don’t smoke pot becasue we don’t need our ranks clustered up with no damn pot heads.
I don’t think he was hard enough on the MSM whiners and screeching female reporters and girly men reporters (they sounded gay). He needs to be crisper with the rebuttals.
or “alt-wrong”, as I prefer to call the Left.
Try that one, Trump, and watch the heads explode.
Great speech. Don’t give them an inch.
I believe Heinecke had permits for McGuffey and Justice Park, but NOT Emancipation Park.
Yeah, there are a lot of those racist bastard Nazis out there in Wyoming, from what I hear. And especially Montana. But we don’t need their kind. Timpangos is getting together the mighty freeper army and we are gonna bust some damn skulls. When we freepers get done with them they will wish they never left momma’s basement. We aren’t afraid to get acid thrown in our face. We aren’t afraid that we may get hit with bags of feces. Because we are gonna bury those SOBs in rubble before they can even know what hit them. And bring all your friends. But make sure they are Constitutional COnservatives because we don’t want any of those stinking Libertarian dope heads anywhere near us. You can bring black friends but make sure they have never been on welfare.
He then equated the white supremacists on the right to the “alt-left.”
You know, I can remember a time when even liberals equated Communism with Nazism.
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