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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Oh but wait...there's more!
One of the oldest tricks in the RAT playbook is to blame the opposition for that which you yourself are doing. Then if you get caught you can say, "well everybody does it".
They have been playing the race card on the Republicans for decades even while they were still suppressing blacks including "The Great Society". Now they seem to be afraid that the voters (or maybe just black voters) will learn the truth.
If anyone has a reason for "white guilt"....it's the RATs.
Real history has been purged from the democRAT schools, except for "black history" indoctrination. They implemented affirmative action, black on black crime goes unreported, and America's second black President could do no wrong. etc etc etc
As you likely know, the Republicans have their annual Lincoln Day Dinners, and it used to be that the RATs had their Jefferson/Jackson Dinners, but now they have finally jettisoned the two former slave-owner figureheads.
I'm sure they bristle at being reminded of their darling "Conscience of the Senate"...the late Great Grand Dragon of the KKK, the "honorable" Robert Byrd.
I don't know if this is the actual motivating factor, but I am guessing that; with the voter fraud investigations, the mass exodus of wetback voters, and Trump directly addressing the blacks "what have you got to lose" and the ever diminishing RAT numbers in Congress and state legislatures...to keep from going extinct, they have to pull out all the stops....and that is what we are seeing here.
"Russia, Russia, Russia" is faltering, they can't really defend the DC gravy train, terrorism, Hillary, Obamacare, and illegal aliens, so all they can do is declare Trump and his supporters to be White Nationalist Racists.
They'll do anything to hang onto power, even if that entails generating a real deadly riot, with actual violent left wing radicals, and Fake "right-wing" racists.
Well said.
“, and America’s second black President could do no wrong. etc etc etc”
I see what you did there!
Well done!
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