Graham: Trump's Return To Blaming Both Sides Was 'A Step Backward'
Source: Talking Points Memo
By ESME CRIBB Published AUGUST 16, 2017 11:38 AM
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Wednesday said President Donald Trumps return to equivocal rhetoric on the violence that erupted at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was a step backward.
Mr. President, I encourage you to try to bring us together as a nation after this horrific event in Charlottesville, Graham said in a statement. Your words are dividing Americans, not healing them.
Graham said Trumps remarks during an off-the-rails press conference on Tuesday suggested a moral equivalency between white supremacists and counter-protesters like Heather Heyer, who was killed when a car plowed into protesters.
Through his statements yesterday, President Trump took a step backward by again suggesting there is moral equivalency between the white supremacist neo-Nazis and KKK members who attended the Charlottesville rally and people like Ms. Heyer, Graham said. I, along with many others, do not endorse this moral equivalency.
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Squinch
(50,950 posts)PatSeg
(47,473 posts)has never been afraid to mention Trump by name.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)that "encouraging" this monster to "try to bring us together as a nation" is a waste of breath? He is incapable of it. Moreover, he doesn't want to do it, because it would anger all he has left: his Basket of Deplorables.
David__77
(23,418 posts)I appreciate it.
Gothmog
(145,288 posts)asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)Either lead, follow or get the hell out of the way of WE The People - we will not start the fight..but, be damned sure we will end it....trump and co ARE white supremacists - They ARE NOT American in any sense of the word..They ARE Un-American....
You lie with dogs..you get fleas...right now our congress and WH needs to be fumigated..there is NO two sides about it...
You want to spread hateful messages..you will be met with resistance....I refuse to listen to any normalization from the pundits - WTF - they don't even know HOW TO address this disgusting unimaginable evil in the WH - Persist, Resist!