Trump's ambassador to Israel: Charlottesville response 'wasn't fine'
Source: The Hill
BY JORDAN FABIAN - 08/23/17 10:58 AM EDT
President Trump’s ambassador to Israel on Wednesday criticized the president's response to the deadly violence earlier this month at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va.
During an interview with an Israeli television reporter, Ambassador David Friedman said the president is “treated very unfairly in the media.” But when asked if Trump’s response was “fine,” Friedman replied it was not.
“I think the reaction wasn’t fine, but you know — I’d rather talk about Boeing today,” he told the reporter at an aerospace event, according to The Jerusalem Post.
The ambassador is one of the only Trump administration officials to publicly disapprove of the president’s response to Charlottesville, where one person was killed and 19 were injured after a car allegedly driven by a man with reported ties to white supremacists plowed into a crowd of counterprotesters.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/347628-trumps-ambassador-to-israel-charlottesville-response-wasnt-fine
