Charlottesville trump
Donald
Trump has once again defended far-right
protesters at the Charlottesville
trump rally, saying they were not all neo-Nazis and
white supremacists and laying the blame for the violence equally on what he
called the “alt-left”.
The remarks – made during a rowdy
press conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York – were Trump’s latest
switch in stance since Saturday, when the civil rights activist Heather
Heyer died after a white nationalist allegedly drove his car into a crowd
in the Virginian city.
The US president was fiercely
criticised for failing to condemn white supremacists in his initial response to
Charlottesville trump,
when he blamed the violence “on many sides”. On Monday, after a chorus of
disapproval, he gave an apparently reluctant statement denouncing racism
as evil.
The president
insisted to the assembled press that he knew more about the events in Charlottesville trump because he “had watched this very closely, much more closely
than you people watched it”. He also fired back at media criticism of his
initial response to the violence in Charlottesville trump on Saturday, when he condemned “hatred, bigotry and violence
on many sides” rather than explicitly calling out neo-Nazis and white
supremacists. In addition to his comments about Charlottesville trump, the president also weighed in on White House intrigue and
seemed to throw into doubt the future of his top aide,
Steve Bannon.
Senator Marco Rubio of Florida
also criticized Trump’s remarks. The former presidential candidate tweeted: “The
organizers of events which inspired & led to #charlottesville trump terrorist attack are
100% to blame for a number of reasons.”
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