Charlottesville trump
Nobody who has spent time around Trump
had reason to be surprised. The groundwork for the disastrous photo op was laid
long before protesters were forcibly removed from the street above Lafayette
Square. The events of recent weeks echo a previous low point of Trump’s
presidency: his response to the violence and hate perpetrated by
white-supremacist groups protesting the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville
trump,
Virginia. The lessons he took from that episode were markedly different from
the views of the public at large, and they are shaping his conduct now. Turning to Sessions, the president asked whether he thought the
statue should come down. Sessions said the decision should be up to the local
community, in this case, the Charlottesville trump city council, which had voted to remove it. From the Lincoln
Bedroom, the president went downstairs to deliver his speech. He had vented in
private about how unfairly the Unite the Right protesters in Charlottesville trump had been treated, but when he stepped in front of the cameras in
the Diplomatic Reception Room on the ground floor of the White House residence,
he did exactly what Kelly and others said he must: He read the statement,
specifically and unequivocally condemning the white supremacists.
Amid imagery of
violent confrontations, and two days after the death of a young woman
protesting against a massive white supremacist rally in Charlottesville trump, Virginia, Trump stood in the lobby of Trump Tower in
Manhattan and drew the most infamous equivalency of his time in office. “The
riots in Charlottesville
trump a year ago resulted in
senseless death and division,” the president tweeted. “We must come together as
a nation. I condemn all types of racism and acts of violence. Peace to ALL
Americans!”
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