What was missing from his initial statement IMO was a condemnation of the specific hate groups, by name, involved in Charlottesville. The President doesn’t normally shy away from condemning or otherwise attacking people be it Chuck Schumer, Mitch McConnell, specific news outlets, Lisa Murkowski, etc. The lack of a by-name condemnation was conspicuously missing from Saturday’s statement and was not by accident IMO. I think the White House responded to the general reaction of it missing by apparently feeling the need to “clarify” his previous non-specific statement with a by-name condemnation. Yet another unforced error.
But was it an error or purposely?
Article from American Conservative:
I’ve been out running errands for most of today, and come back to see a horrifying glimpse of America, 2017:
A planned protest in Virginia by white nationalists was abandoned on Saturday after a spate of violence prompted the governor to declare a state of emergency and law enforcement officers to clear the area.
The demonstration, which both organizers and critics had said was the largest gathering of white nationalists in recent years, turned violent almost immediately and left at least one person dead and a number of people injured. “I am heartbroken that a life has been lost here,” Mayor Mike Signer, said on social media.
In comments from Bedminster, N.J., President Trump condemned the violence and called for the swift restoration of order. “We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides,” he said.
The turmoil began with a march Friday night and escalated Saturday morning as hundreds of white nationalists gathered. Waving Confederate flags, chanting Nazi-era slogans, wearing helmets and carrying shields, they converged on a statue of Robert E. Lee in the city’s Emancipation Park and began chanting phrases like “You will not replace us,” and “Jew will not replace us.”
Later, someone deliberately drove a muscle car into a group of people demonstrating against the white nationalists. One person is dead from that deliberate act of terrorism, one that copies what Muslim radicals in Europe have done.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/white-racial-terrorism/
