Trump’s performance after Charlottesville makes him the apologist in chief for racistsThe significance of President Donald Trump’s recent remarks on deadly white supremacist violence in Virginia cannot be overstated.
After an attack at the “Unite the Right” rallies in Charlottesville,Virginia, left one dead and more than a dozen injured, and Trump condemned the rally’s Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi participants. But just a day later,he suggested that some of the Klansmen and Nazis were pleasurable people, and that the anti-racist counterprotesters also deserved blame for the chaos.
In several tweets, or Trump has fawned over monuments to pro-slavery Confederates — statues that many communities possess taken down in the wake of the Charlottesville attack. The president tweeted his compliments Saturday to an estimated 40000 anti-racist counterprotesters in Boston who peacefully opposed a small-by-comparison “free speech” rally. Read more.
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