Home
Search:
1146 feeds
357 categories
0 articles (<24 hours)
35 registered users

Use the Mobile version
Mobile

Follow our Twitter feed

View our Linkpartners
Links

Username:
Password:

Register | Retrieve

Culture


RSS FeedsDonald Trump defends far-right extremists in astonishing tirade, again blames both sides for Charlottesville violence
(The Star Fashion & Style)

 
 

16 august 2017 03:31:33

 
Donald Trump defends far-right extremists in astonishing tirade, again blames both sides for Charlottesville violence
(The Star Fashion & Style)
 


WASHINGTON—He had said the words everyone told him he needed to say. He had denounced white supremacists.The white supremacists kept smiling. They said Donald Trump was clearly insincere about the words he had read from a script.The racists were right.In an impromptu tirade so astonishing that it left his chief of staff staring at the floor of Trump Tower, the president revealed Tuesday that he did not actually believe white supremacists were solely responsible for the Saturday violence at their rally in Charlottesville, Va. Some of the violence, Trump claimed, was initiated by bat-wielding leftist “troublemakers.” Some of the participants in the rally, he insisted, were “very fine people.” And the nominal reason for the event, he suggested, was just: defending “history” and “culture” from people who want to take down statues of Confederate icons.Trump’s words were nearly indistinguishable from those of the white supremacists themselves. The rant left former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke ecstatic, Democrats and Republicans slack-jawed and sickened.Here was the president passionately defending an extremist event during which an alleged admirer of Adolf Hitler was accused of murdering a peaceful protester and injuring 19 others. Here was the president using weaker words to describe the people bearing swastikas than the people who showed up to oppose them.Read more:The complete transcript of Donald Trump’s stunning Tuesday remarks on racist violence in CharlottesvilleIs this the beginning of the end for Canada’s Rebel Media?: Tim HarperTrump often has vivid words for victims. Not for the woman killed in Charlottesville: Analysis“You had a group on one side and you had a group on the other, and they came at each other with clubs and it was vicious and it was horrible. And it was a horrible thing to watch. But there is another side. There was a group on this side, you can call ...


 
22 viewsCategory: Culture > Fashion
 
See Kaia Gerber and Gabriel-Kane Day-Lewis` Hudson Jeans Fall `17 Campaign
(E! Online Fashion News)
Is this the beginning of the end for Canadas Rebel Media?: Tim Harper
(The Star Fashion & Style)
 
 
blog comments powered by Disqus


Copyright © 2008 - 2024 Indigonet Services B.V.. Contact: Tim Hulsen. Read here our privacy notice.
Other websites of Indigonet Services B.V.: Nieuws Vacatures Science Tweets Nachrichten