Sen. Graham says Trump remarks divide Americans

His comments are wrong, and they must be condemned in the strongest terms.

Heather Heyer was killed after she was struck by a vehicle driven into a crowd of people who were protesting a white nationalist rally in Virginia.

The experts made an urgent renewed call to the US authorities to step up its work to tackle the issue.

Local and state officials have renewed pushes to remove Confederate imagery from public property since the violence and death of a woman in Charlottesville, Virginia, during a white nationalist rally over the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue. “Everyone in leadership must speak out”.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) did what other Republicans have refused to do. “It has no place in America”. “Your words are dividing Americans, not healing them”, Graham said. Cory Booker (D-NJ).

Trump has faced bipartisan criticism for his back-and-forth comments on Charlottesville, both decrying white supremacist groups and then on Tuesday backtracking by placing blame on liberal groups in addition to white nationalists.

By saying “on many sides” Trump “not only fuels a misleading account of what actually happened but shamefully puts the counter-protestors on the same moral level as those carrying Nazi flags and chanting vile racist rants”, Booker said.

But the president addressed the issue again on Tuesday and re-ignited the firestorm. There was a group on this side, you can call them the left … that came violently attacking the other group.

In another major sign of discontent within the Republican Party, Trump abruptly abolished two of his White House business councils Wednesday as corporate chiefs began resigning in protest of his racial statements. “Believe me. Not all of those people were white supremacists by any stretch”. So was U.S. Sen.

Trump has a fairly empty schedule for Thursday, so there will likely be many more attacks to come.

Share prices on the USA stock market came under pressure as the demise of the Trump business panels added to investor worries about the future of the White House’s agenda.

Trump said there were “some very bad people” among the protesters.

Meanwhile, Gallup reported that Mr Trump’s approval rating was now at 34 per cent, a new low for his presidency.

“It is incumbent upon leaders, in particular, to stand unequivocally and consistently against such hatred and division”, he added. “I think the president attempted to communicate those same feelings yesterday in his own way”.

“Neo-Nazism and white supremacy are reprehensible belief systems that are steeped in hate and adorned with evil actions throughout history”.