Monday, August 14, 2017

Charlottesville mayor largely blames Trump for white supremacist violence

Charlottesville mayor largely blames Trump for white supremacist violence:
"The mayor of Charlottesville, Va., says President Trump bears responsibility for the violence that erupted during a white supremacist rally there Saturday.
Image result for trump's fault“Look at the campaign he ran,” Charlottesville Mayor Michael Signer said in an interview with CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.
“I mean, look at the intentional courting, both on the one hand of all these white supremacists, white nationalists — a group like that — anti-Semitic groups, and then look on the other hand the repeated failure to step up, condemn, denounce, silence, you know, put to bed all those different efforts, just like we saw yesterday. I mean, this is not hard.”
“I’m not going to make any bones about it,” Signer told the Virginian-Pilot.
“I place the blame for a lot of what you’re seeing in American today right at the doorstep of the White House and the people around the president...”"

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