Trump Gives White Supremacists an Unequivocal Boost
Trump Gives White Supremacists an Unequivocal Boost
By GLENN THRUSH and MAGGIE HABERMAN -- The New York Times
WASHINGTON President Trump buoyed the white nationalist movement on Tuesday as no president has done in generations equating activists protesting racism with the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who rampaged in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend.
Never has he gone as far in defending their actions as he did during a wild, street-corner shouting match of a news conference in the gilded lobby of Trump Tower, angrily asserting that so-called alt-left activists were just as responsible for the bloody confrontation as marchers brandishing swastikas, Confederate battle flags, anti-Semitic banners and Trump/Pence signs.
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By GLENN THRUSH and MAGGIE HABERMAN -- The New York Times
WASHINGTON President Trump buoyed the white nationalist movement on Tuesday as no president has done in generations equating activists protesting racism with the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who rampaged in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend.
Never has he gone as far in defending their actions as he did during a wild, street-corner shouting match of a news conference in the gilded lobby of Trump Tower, angrily asserting that so-called alt-left activists were just as responsible for the bloody confrontation as marchers brandishing swastikas, Confederate battle flags, anti-Semitic banners and Trump/Pence signs.
READ MORE: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/tru...
