Trump again laid the blame for the collision in Charlottesville on both sides
WASHINGTON, 15 Aug — RIA Novosti. The US President Donald trump said Tuesday that lays the blame for the collision in Charlottesville between the ultra-right and their opponents on “both sides”, thus repeating your first reaction to these events.
As noted by trump, “there is one group on one side and the other on the other, between them there was a collision, it was awful to see it.”
As a result of incidents in Charlottesville (Virginia) August 12, killed one person and injured another 34. Also in the crash of a police helicopter, killing two police officers in Virginia.
Earlier, trump expressed his condolences in connection with death of three people. He condemned the violence but said it is “from many sides”, for which he was criticized by many political opponents and the media. Later, the President specifically condemned the “Ku Klux Klan”, neo-Nazis and the like.
Supporters of the far-right protested against plans of the authorities to remove a monument to the Confederate General during the Civil war, Robert Edward Lee from “Park release” (formerly “Park It”). The first clashes between protesters and their opponents, and the arrests began on 11 August, when hundreds of ultra-right held a torchlight procession through the city. Just in the city, according to various estimates, the profits from a few hundred to a few thousand right-wing, including members of neo-Nazi organizations and “Ku Klux Klan”.