Slate "Trump Says Some Very Fine People Participated in Charlottesville White Supremacist Rally"

[NRaleighLiberal]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/08/15/trump_defends_charlottesville_marchers_in_press_conference.html

by Jim Newell

Donald Trump's Tuesday press conference about his infrastructure plans quickly deteriorated into a defense of his initial response to the violent Charlottesville, Virginia, march, as well as of some of the marchers.

When Trump first started taking questions at Trump Tower this afternoon, he argued that his Saturday statement was vague in assigning blame because, "Unlike you, and unlike the media, before I make a statement, I like to know the facts." Once he knew the facts, he said, of course he was willing to condemn the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacists.

When reporters began to ask about whether the alt-right was behind the Charlottesville bloodshed, though, Trump unleashed a torrent of both-sides whataboutism and crankery.

"What about the alt-left that came charging at the—as you say, the alt-right? Do they have any semblance of guilt?" he asked.

And then the president of the United States began to defend some of the marchers, which gave way to a slippery slope argument about what happens if you begin removing statues of Robert E. Lee:


snip - read it all at the above link

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. OK, so now we ALL know that a fascist nazi is the prez

and still not a WORD from gop

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Can we all agree now that Trump is a racist?

He didn't leave any room for doubt today.

[Gothmog]

3. Trump's base of nazis loved his comments

[Johnny2X2X]

4. Said they were treated unfairly

He said the press was mean to the good people marching with the KKK and Nazis. WTF???!!!