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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Actually I’d hope so.
It may help that he only sleeps ~ 5hr/day. (who knows about napping? - never any leaks about that that I’ve seen.)
Perfect gif!!!!
Where are the pitchforks?
I have still yet to see anyone dressed as the klan , or the only thing I have seen is one young guy giving a salute.
exactly
They own the lion share of the blame as well as the city mayor.
Turn FOX off I did . One American News has none of their talking guests spouting B/S , and giving their editorial.
FOX the last few days has gone all CNN, MSNBC
You would think according tot he SPLC who sadly still have people who follow them there are millions of people in every state threatening those poor minorities.
Reserving judgement until what?
“Reserving judgement until what?”
Until I get more information. Why would I accept the unsupported word of proven liars?
Call them out by name, Mr. President: “antifa”, Only Black Live Matter, and assorted hate/thug/racist groups.
OK.
The media is complicit, many of them have committed sedition and if there is a place to take protest, the media outlets should be high on the list of places our people should show up to protest.
They need to be frightened, not terrorized, just a showing of numbers to make them think about what they do. The problem is kooks come out too and we are basically reluctant to toss our normalcy bias to actually take an action against them other than typing on my phone, the kooks are not. Some do it for a living.
I’ve never understood what ‘alt.right’ is supposed to be...
This is absolutely the truth. And even though a lot of them are getting paid, there STILL are not very many them.
This is all theater.
“So true. So the next time Antifa shows up in public I can expect to see you and about 90% of our fellow freezers there right? That way we can be sure there are no Nazis present. Right? So I can expect to see you there?”
In early May, I went to the rally at Lee Circle in Nee Orleans.
I had planned to stand opposed to taking down the statue of Gen. Lee.
On one side was some Antifa and a whole bunch of people advocating the removal of the statue.
On the other side, a whole bunch of people opposing the removal of the statue and some KKK and White Power.
I left as there was no way I would stand any where near that KKK and White Power garbage.
+1
Go, Trump! MAGA
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