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Trump Loudly Insists Both Sides to Blame For Virginia Violence

August 16, 2017

Via: Fortune
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U.S. President Donald Trump loudly insisted on Tuesday that both left- and right-wing groups used force in the aftermath of a white supremacist rally and that all of the facts were not yet in about street clashes in Charlottesville, Va.

Trump , taking questions from reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, reverted to his initial comments on Saturday blaming “many sides” for the violence, but on Monday had explicitly condemned the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups.

“They came at each other with clubs … it was a horrible thing to watch,” Trump told reporters at what was supposed to be an announcement and news conference on his administration’s infrastructure policy. He said left-wing protesters “came violently attacking the other group.”

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