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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The media should be fair and pay David Dukes.
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They probably do.
Yes, you can clearly see that from pictures taken around Lee Park.
There are lots of old school hippie types in Cville. They are the ones that were initially standing right up next to the curb on Market St.
What happens over time is the street fills up with more radical protesters. Many heavily muscled black guys, some of whom were carrying bats/clubs. When the park was forced to empty, the Unite the Right group had to walk through that crowd.
“That’s it. That’s the only thing they did wrong.”
Except one member of their group murdered a woman.
Your blood pressure will thank you if you stop watching those nitwits on FOX. Stopped watching FAUX News a number of years ago. The husband, though, has got me watching Tucker lately. I draw the line at Brett, Krauthammer, Wallace, etc.
This makes it sound like the baseline for viewing any situation is from the point of view of the media in the New York/Washington axis.
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Well, yeah, it is. You have problem weeth dis, comrade?
Good one. Do you have any idea of where that photo actually originated?
Yep.
Give ‘em, H*ll, Donald!
“Culpability”, I think President Trump was hunting around for the word culpability but he came up with semblance instead I wish someone up there would have fed it to him but Donald is all by himself in the ring swinging but he is swinging for the fences. He lambasted the obnoxious press with withering zinger after zinger. I can’t recall yet imagine a previous president with such unbridled confidence to so boldly challenge the media’s monopoly on the narrative.
We are still very close to a thousand years of boot on the neck totalitarian rule, yet have been blessed to have been given this chance to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.
Think,
Pray,
Act!
Mind if I steal that one?
“Except one member of their group murdered a woman.”
1. Do we know that he was a member of their group?
2. Films that I saw seemed to show that rioters were about to Reginald Denny him. The police said he was frightened, not malicious. Seems a little early to convict him of murder.
It's bad enough that the nation's political and other leadership is totally against US citizens. What I can't comprehend is all the useful idiots who follow them.
“Seems a little early to convict him of murder.”
Exactly.
That question will be left up to a Charlottesville jury.
Who were the Russian communist inquisitors at that press conference firing outrageous questions?
No camera shots caught face shots of those
Well said.
He truly is all alone up there. Pains my heart.
Prayers.
Well said.
He truly is all alone up there. Pains my heart.
Prayers.
Great line by President Trump -’alt left’ and why doesn’t the press examine them and condemn them. Mean’t as a rhetorical question of course because we know who the MSM supports and covers for.
“Except one member of their group murdered a woman.”
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Correct,ONE MEMBER of the group killed a woman(not murdered),but the group as a whole can’t be blamed for that.
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Trump talks about “pussy” in a private conversation with another Man and he is a Woman hating SOB.
President Clinton, (who also talked about “pussy” with his buddy Vernon Jordan BTW), while in the Oval Office Sodomizes an Intern half is age with a Cigar, has her perform Oral Sex on him multiple times, was accused of Rape when he was the AR Governor, abused many other Women and then commits Perjury when he is sued by one of his Victims is the Democrat Party Poster Boy, at least the White one.
Yep, moral equivalency at its finest.
Twitter is going ape over this. Hilarious to watch.
The Department of Justice called it an act of terrorism.
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