Trump defends Charlottesville comments, claims he responded "perfectly"

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-defends-charlottesville-comments-by-praising-a-confederate-general/2019/04/26/80ba1d24-682b-11e9-a1b6-b29b90efa879_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.81734dc3204d

President Trump on Friday defended his comments after the 2017 “Unite the Right” protests in which an avowed neo-Nazi killed a woman and injured dozens of others in Charlottesville,
arguing that his focus was on the protesters defending the monument of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Trump, pressed on whether he stood by his comments that there were “very fine people on both sides,” told reporters, “If you look at what I said, you will see that that question was
answered perfectly. And I was talking about people that went because they felt very strongly about the monument to Robert E. Lee, a great general.”

Former vice president Joe Biden resurrected Trump’s response to the deadly rally by self-professed white supremacists in a video to launch his presidential campaign on Thursday. In it,
Biden said Trump’s remarks “shocked the conscience of this nation.”

Some Trump supporters have become Charlottesville truthers, arguing that Trump’s comments were taken out of context. They maintain, as Trump does, that he was not calling self-
proclaimed neo-Nazis and white supremacists “very fine people,” and in fact, he said they should be condemned.

[milk47]

This is a distraction. Don't be fooled.

[Borealis]

That former White House staffer Omarosa said Trump keeps a stack of things to say to distract from the news, but she's a liar and grafter as well

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The monuments were made to romanticize the confederates by and for the southerners after the civil war.

They really should be removed and people should educate themselves on the atrocities of post civil war by the southerners. There should be no good foot note of the southerners during and after the civil war, but here we are where the men that fought to keep slavery in America are romanticized as brothers in arms on the wrong side.

Regarding his comments, it did not do anything to curtail the rise in white supremacy in the area, but rather strengthened it. His irresponsibility in his words here just continue to strengthen people who want to interpret his words in a way they want and keep provoking white supremacy as a positive ideology for America.

This will most likely result in an increase in domestic terrorism and indifference between Republicans and Democrats.

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Given that he was probably making these statements at the NRA conference (which he was at today) In the context, absolutely his comments were right because he's always right when he's in his court, everywhere else he's full of shit though.

[Hail Satan]

Man incapable of being modest continues to gloat about how great he is, more news on this as it develops.