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Charlottesville victim's Mother rebukes Trump
BBC News ^ | 18th August 2017 | BBC News

Posted on 08/18/2017 8:46:59 AM PDT by Ennis85

The mother of a woman killed in violent clashes at a white supremacist rally has said she has "no interest" in speaking with President Donald Trump. Susan Bro said she refuses to speak to Mr Trump after hearing him equate demonstrators, like her daughter, with white supremacists. Her daughter, Heather Heyer, was killed on Saturday after a car ploughed through a crowd of counter-protesters. She said she did not "want to be used for political agendas". Mrs Bro told ABC New's Good Morning America television programme she missed a call from the White House, which appeared to have been made during her daughter's public memorial on Wednesday. She added that she received three more "frantic messages" from Mr Trump's press team later in the day but was too exhausted from the funeral to talk. It was when she saw a news clip of Mr Trump again blaming both sides for the violence that she changed her mind about speaking to the president.

"It's not that I saw somebody else's tweets about him, I saw an actual clip of him at a press conference equating the protesters... with the [Ku Klux Klan] and the white supremacists," she said on Friday. "You can't wash this one away by shaking my hand and saying, 'I'm sorry.' I'm not forgiving that." A day earlier Mrs Bro told MSNBC she had received death threats after speaking out about her daughter's death and the president's comments.

Mr Trump drew outrage this week after reversing his condemnation of Saturday's far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which was supported by white supremacists and neo-Nazis protesting against the removal of a statue of Robert E Lee, a general who had fought for the pro-slavery Confederacy during the US Civil War.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: charlottesville; heather; heatherheyer; kkk; trump
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1 posted on 08/18/2017 8:47:00 AM PDT by Ennis85
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this old cow acts as though President Trump murdered her stupid daughter...


2 posted on 08/18/2017 8:48:13 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Ennis85

Don’t raise terrorists.


3 posted on 08/18/2017 8:48:19 AM PDT by The Toll
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So, the mother of a leftist protester who was killed is rebuking trump.

Dog bites man...


4 posted on 08/18/2017 8:48:52 AM PDT by robroys woman
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Screw you *itch.


5 posted on 08/18/2017 8:49:23 AM PDT by ZULU (DITCH MITCH!!! DUMP RYAN!! DROP DEAD MCCAIN!! KIM FATTY the THIRD = Kim Jung Un)
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I would have to know more about her daughter in order to have an opinion on her. The left has gotten to this mother.


6 posted on 08/18/2017 8:49:25 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Ennis85
Susan Bro said she refuses to speak to Mr Trump after hearing him equate demonstrators..

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Look what Cernovich found. Alleged victim who raised $150,000 by claiming he was attacked.

7 posted on 08/18/2017 8:49:30 AM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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He’s was equating them with Antifa and BLM

Is your anger so deep you can’t think? Remember those five Dallas cops?


8 posted on 08/18/2017 8:49:42 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Search "Vice Mayor Wes Bellamy tweets" and pass those links on to all you know)
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To: Tennessee Nana

This happens a lot when you have a tragic death like this. The mother has to turn her daughter into a martyr because she can’t accept that she was just run over on the street with a mob of unruly demonstrators who shouldn’t have even been there in the first place.


9 posted on 08/18/2017 8:50:18 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

The problem is the sheeple who only get their perspective from the MSM think the Antifa are the second coming of Sophie Scholl and “The White Rose.”


10 posted on 08/18/2017 8:50:43 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Wasn't she happy just a few days ago because Trump had called her or something to offer his condolences?

I bet this lady is now on Valerie Jarrett's speed dial.

11 posted on 08/18/2017 8:51:04 AM PDT by Slyfox (Are you tired of winning yet?)
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From katy tur(d) interview:

Heather Heyer was murdered in Charlottesville, Virginia when a white nationalist terrorist drove through a crowd of counter protesters on Saturday. Her mother Susan Bro, who has vowed to carry on her daughter’s mission, appeared on MSNBC Live on Thursday to have an interview with host Katy Tur. If you thought the interview would be about Heather or how her mother planned to continue you’d be wrong.

Out of the seven questions, Tur asked in the aired portion of their taped interview, five of them were about the President.

Tur’s first question was indeed about Heyer, but that was all. “I’d love if you could tell us a little bit more about your daughter. What moment are you going to hold on to,” she inquired. But from there, she went right into five straight questions about Trump:

He also told reporters that he would be reaching out to you. Have you had a chance to speak with the President?

Bro explained that ever since her daughter’s untimely death, her schedule had been really full. “When we got home from the funeral and reception I was completely drained, and we had family gathered around. I had my phone turned off,” she said, noting she had three phone calls from him. “And so it feels awful, but I just haven’t had time to talk to the President, but yes, he has reached out.”


12 posted on 08/18/2017 8:51:52 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Tennessee Nana
Susan Bro said she refuses to speak to Mr Trump after hearing him equate demonstrators...

Democrat Governor Terry McAuliffe refused to condemn leftist & Antifa violence.

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"Live from Twitter."

13 posted on 08/18/2017 8:52:04 AM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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Hell, but she’s not mad at the local govt that told the police to do NOTHING? Hmmmmm

Even the ACLU can’t defend this kind of flagrant evil.


14 posted on 08/18/2017 8:52:06 AM PDT by Professional
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I was shocked to learn the my state — solidly “blue” New Jersey — lists AntiFa as a “domestic terrorist organization.”


15 posted on 08/18/2017 8:52:19 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: Ennis85

Also hearing some outrage about Trump calling her mother during her daughter’s funeral.

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/898513095089205250


16 posted on 08/18/2017 8:52:39 AM PDT by Ennis85
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I saw an actual clip of him at a press conference equating the protesters... with the [Ku Klux Klan] and the white supremacists,”

All proud Liberal Progressive Democrats, always have been and always will be.


17 posted on 08/18/2017 8:52:56 AM PDT by eyeamok (Idle hands are the Devil's workshop)
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Sounds like the Left reached her first...


18 posted on 08/18/2017 8:53:11 AM PDT by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: Alberta's Child

this ijit is the twin sister to Trayvon martin’s mother...

not around for the kid until the death gives them a way to make money and 15 minutes of unearned fame..

personally I want to slap her...

the daughter was an “Antifa activist”


19 posted on 08/18/2017 8:53:21 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Slyfox

Probably Soros payroll


20 posted on 08/18/2017 8:53:38 AM PDT by Hang'emAll (If guns kill people, do pencils misspell words?)
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