The White house explained trump’s words about the perpetrators of the clashes in Charlottesville
The US President said that what happened is blame on both sides — as members of far-right groups and their opponents, who are too “violent”.
WASHINGTON, August 16. /TASS/. The white house on Tuesday evening circulated among Republicans in the U.S. Congress abstracts, in which supporters of President Donald trump would, if necessary, to clarify his statements about who is responsible for the unrest in Charlottesville (Virginia). The text was in possession of the magazine the Atlantic.
Trump, answering questions of journalists, said earlier that the incident is blame on both sides — as members of far-right groups and their opponents, who are too “violent”.
The President was absolutely right — both sides are using violence in Charlottesville, had acted inappropriately, and responsibility. The President without any ambiguity denounced groups that preach hatred, and that last weekend was driven by fanaticism and racism. He called them by name yesterday, but for the media it will never be enough.The white house
The White house noted that the head of state called for “unity and calm”.
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On Saturday in Charlottesville, violent clashes of supporters of right-wing ideas, including members of racist and neo-Nazi groups and their opponents on the basis of the decision of the local authorities to dismantle the monument to the commander of the Confederate army in the Civil war, General Robert E. Lee. A few hours later espousing neo-Nazi views 20-year-old Alex fields, Jr., according to video from the scene at high speed the car swept down a street and drove into a crowd of activists opposed to the demonstrations held there by the far right.
Trump on Tuesday refused to assign responsibility for the riots in Charlottesville just for the radicals. “There is a group on the one hand, which is bad, and there is a group on the other hand, which also showed cruelty. And no one wants to talk about it, but I will tell you right now. There was a group on the other hand, which came without permission and they were very, very cruel,” said the President, answering questions of journalists in the Trump Tower skyscraper in new York.