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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Thanks for enlightening me.
I’m not a ‘signed-up’ anything and have never been, politically, religiously, or in any other way.
And I resent anyone putting their own arrogant preconceptions on my orientation.
Too late. The “alt Right” and “white nationalists” have already been tried, convicted and sentenced to death in the court of public opinion and Trump has been successfully aligned with them.
These aren’t “alt” Left, they ARE the Left. They are found in Academia, Media, and the State Department. They hate this nation and are supporters of despotism and Communism.
They are militant and dream of stringing up CEOs from lampposts. Ted Rall and others have expressed that fantasy they hope to become reality some day in their lifetime.
Intentional misdirection, obfuscation, and keeping their enemies labelled with whatever the unthinking will regard as horrendous, despicable and especially DEPLORABLE is business as usual for the liberals.
I don't know unfortunately...it's a great photo and I'd love to know the story behind it too...
CNN is losing their marbles again as we speak. It’s about damn time leftist racism is called out. I’m glad CNN and the rest of them are blowing their gaskets. The racial animosity in this country is being perpetrated by these idiots.
We don’t have to buy into it; and most of the Nation is NOT buying-in.
Let them have their juvenile hissy-fits. Bide time.
I dunno. I was told I was a deplorable. What's supposed to be worse, alt right or deplorable?
Ah, I think I found it.....
http://bowieknifefightsfighters.blogspot.com/2010/11/bowie-knife-fighter-anthony-j-drexel.html
Someone once asked me: Do you care what other people think of you?
My response was that it depends entirely on what I think of Them.
Name calling has no power, if you know who you are; and then you can just ignore it.
He told ya.
He had to get all the facts. It was a big deal involving multiple groups. Ya can’t sort out everything in 1 day.
Btw, if ya find someone in D.C. with more honesty, sense and guts than Trump, run them for president.
Thanks for sharing that info...fascinating man that Biddle fellow...
A multi strand timeline would be helpful.
I’m glad she labeled half the country as, “Deplorable”.
She now owns it!
fascinating man that Biddle fellow...
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Was hoping to find a book on his biography, but a quick search yielded only the book he himself had written as instruction on combat.
A lot of that stuff, like dates, times can be obtained using metadata from within the images themselves.
Ctrl-Left fascists.
Paul Ryan rushed to Twitter to stab President Trump in the back following this.
The Idaho panhandle was a nexus a decade ago.
Not sure about now.
“Trump defends Racist protestors......”. CNN banner
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