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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSlate "Trump Says Some Very Fine People Participated in Charlottesville White Supremacist Rally"
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/08/15/trump_defends_charlottesville_marchers_in_press_conference.htmlby Jim Newell
Donald Trump's Tuesday press conference about his infrastructure plans quickly deteriorated into a defense of his initial response to the violent Charlottesville, Virginia, march, as well as of some of the marchers.
When Trump first started taking questions at Trump Tower this afternoon, he argued that his Saturday statement was vague in assigning blame because, "Unlike you, and unlike the media, before I make a statement, I like to know the facts." Once he knew the facts, he said, of course he was willing to condemn the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacists.
When reporters began to ask about whether the alt-right was behind the Charlottesville bloodshed, though, Trump unleashed a torrent of both-sides whataboutism and crankery.
"What about the alt-left that came charging at theas you say, the alt-right? Do they have any semblance of guilt?" he asked.
And then the president of the United States began to defend some of the marchers, which gave way to a slippery slope argument about what happens if you begin removing statues of Robert E. Lee:
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Slate "Trump Says Some Very Fine People Participated in Charlottesville White Supremacist Rally" (Original Post)
NRaleighLiberal
Aug 2017
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)1. OK, so now we ALL know that a fascist nazi is the prez
and still not a WORD from gop
Baitball Blogger
(46,758 posts)2. Can we all agree now that Trump is a racist?
He didn't leave any room for doubt today.
Gothmog
(145,558 posts)3. Trump's base of nazis loved his comments
Johnny2X2X
(19,114 posts)4. Said they were treated unfairly
He said the press was mean to the good people marching with the KKK and Nazis. WTF???!!!