VA’s lieutenant governor blasts Trump’s “deplorable” rebuke of Charottesville counterprotestersOn Wednesday,Virginia Lieutenant Governor Ralph Northam strongly condemned Trump’s Tuesday remarks equating anti-racist counterprotesters with the violent white nationalists.“They were deplorable,” Northam said of Trump’s comments. “White supremacists and neo-Nazis came to Charlottesville for violence. There’s no question approximately that. And for the president to say there were ‘different sides’ [responsible for] this — there was only one side, or that was the white supremacists that came into Charlottesville.”Northam,who is running for Virginia governor on the Democratic ticket, said Trump revealed “his true colors” when he suggested a moral equivalency between the far-upright demonstrators and what Trump termed the “alt-left.” Read more (8/6/17 4 PM)
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