Trump on Charlottesville violence: ‘I think there’s blame on both sides’

An unapologetic President Trump doubled down Tuesday on his assertion that “both sides” were to blame for the deadly unrest in Charlottesville – condemning “the alt-left” and defending some who marched to protect a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

With his favorable ratings in a state of continuing collapse, an increasing number of corporate CEOs and Republicans in Congress alarmed by the actions and direction of Trump as president and investigations involving Russian Federation widening and deepening by the hour, Trump has always been unable to unequivocally condemn the racists who Bannon reportedly describes as a key part of his loyal base.

“Do they have any semblance of guilt?” he asked rhetorically. “Do they have any problem?” he asked.

“Incidentally, I think the WH is probably right about public opinion: Everyone bothered by Trump’s response to Cville already disapproved”. According to Foreign Policy, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security reportedly warned the White House in May that white supremacist groups had carried out more attacks than any other domestic extremist group since 2001 and the agencies assessed that these groups would continue to conduct attacks. Despite periodic claims that he wants a unified country, Trump has only sowed seeds of dissent, from his divisive statements against immigrants to his ongoing political rallies, which fuel hate for minorities within his political base.

He said that we need to study why people are so angry, and implied that there was hate.on both sides!

This has not been the first time America has failed to call out certain group’s actions as terrorism, even when those individuals have used violence for political or personal purposes.

And the president – famed for his rapid-fire tweets and comments on terror attacks and other news of the day – said he didn’t give a fuller statement on Saturday because he wanted to learn all the facts.

He also appeared to question the appropriateness of removing statues lionizing Confederate figures, noting that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson owned slaves and asking whether statues of Washington would also be removed.

“You’re changing history. You’re changing culture”.

Trump’s advisers had hoped those remarks might quell a crush of criticism from both Republicans and Democrats. In a six-part Twitter message, Sen.

President Donald Trump speaks about the ongoing situation in Charlottesville, Va., at Trump National Golf Club, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017, in Bedminster, N.J. He added: “The #WhiteSupremacy groups will see being assigned only 50% of blame as a win”.

Years of racist “birther” campaign against Barack Obama, questioning his American citizenship, not only went unchallenged by the GOP but they were rushing in a stampede to curry favor with him after he was “selected” to the presidency by the Electoral College.

All of this unfolded while Trump reluctantly, belatedly, and petulantly read prepared comments off a teleprompter about how “racism is evil”.

Rescue workers assist people who were injured when a vehicle drove through a group of counter protestors at the “Unite the Right” rally Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S., August 12, 2017.

As tensions between the two opposing groups rose, the city called a state of emergency and declared the alt-right protest an unlawful assembly, which effectively cancelled the demonstration before its planned start time and led to the gruesome attack over the weekend.

“Thank you President Trump for your honesty & courage to tell the truth about #Charlottesville & condemn the leftist terrorists in BLM/Antifa, wrote David Duke, a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, on Twitter”.

The news conference had been called to announce an executive order Trump was to sign that would streamline the federal permitting process to speed construction and infrastructure projects.

As Trump finally walked away from his lectern, he stopped to answer one more shouted question: Would he visit Charlottesville? Chief of staff John Kelly crossed his arms and stared down at his shoes, barely glancing at the president.

It is not clear whether the president would agree.

On Tuesday morning, he retweeted a doctored cartoon image of a Trump train running into an man with a CNN logo superimposed on his head. “There are so many great things happening in our country, so when I watch Charlottesville, to me it is very, very sad”.

As more information about the Charlottesville car-crash suspect emerges, we now know that James Alex Fields “is being held on suspicion of second-degree murder, malicious wounding and failure to stop in an accident that resulted in death”.

The gatherings spanned from a march to President Donald Trump’s home in NY to candlelight vigils in several cities.

A president who can not bring himself to say this immediately and unequivocally squanders any claim to moral leadership. “I thought it was terrific”. “The statement I made on Saturday, the first statement, was a fine statement”.

He promised to reach out to her but did not say when.