Trump Criticizes Media, Graham in Defense of His Charlottesville Response

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Trump Criticizes Media, Graham in Defense of His Charlottesville Response
August 17, 2017 7:17 AM

    VOA News

U.S. President Donald Trump criticized the media and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham in tweets Thursday, saying they have misrepresented his comments following the deadly violence that erupted last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Trump on Saturday initially blamed the violence on "many sides," but then on Monday condemned neo-Nazis, white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan for their role in the unrest. By Tuesday he reverted to his initial assessment of the violence that killed 32-year-old Heather Heyer and wounded 19 others when a Nazi sympathizer drove a car into a crowd of counter-protesters.

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