Donald Trump held a bizarre press conference Tuesday in which he defended the Alt-Right Nazis who stormed the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia while giving Nazi salutes. The hate-rally resulted in one of Trump’s deplorables losing his sh*t when he decided to use his car as a weapon to mow down peaceful anti-racist protesters, resulting in the murder of Heather Hyer, 32, and injuring 19 others. The presser went so off the rails that David Duke took to Twitter to thank Trump for sticking up for white supremacists.
Even Republicans are not giving Trump a pass after he blamed ‘both sides’ for the appalling violence.
“We must be clear,” Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) wrote on Twitter. “White supremacy is repulsive. This bigotry is counter to all this country stands for. There can be no moral ambiguity.”
We must be clear. White supremacy is repulsive. This bigotry is counter to all this country stands for. There can be no moral ambiguity.
— Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) August 15, 2017
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) went on a tweetstorm following Trump’s remarks.
The organizers of events which inspired & led to #charlottesvilleterroristattack are 100% to blame for a number of reasons. 1/6
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) August 15, 2017
They are adherents of an evil ideology which argues certain people are inferior because of race, ethnicity or nation of origin. 2/6
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) August 15, 2017
When entire movement built on anger & hatred towards people different than you,it justifies & ultimately leads to violence against them 3/6
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) August 15, 2017
These groups today use SAME symbols & same arguments of #Nazi & #KKK, groups responsible for some of worst crimes against humanity ever 4/6
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) August 15, 2017
Mr. President,you can’t allow #WhiteSupremacists to share only part of blame.They support idea which cost nation & world so much pain 5/6
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) August 15, 2017
The #WhiteSupremacy groups will see being assigned only 50% of blame as a win.We can not allow this old evil to be resurrected 6/6
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) August 15, 2017
Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas), who has a black father and white mother, said, “I don’t think anybody should be looking at getting props from a Grand Dragon of the KKK as any kind of sign of success.”
“Apologize,” the Texas Republican said. “Racism, bigotry, anti-Semitism of any form is unacceptable.”
The problem here is that Trump never apologizes for anything.
Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), the No. 3 Republican in the House, took to Twitter to denounce white supremacy.
“I was clear about this bigotry & violence over the weekend and I’ll repeat it today: We must defeat white supremacy and all forms of hatred,” he tweeted.
I was clear about this bigotry & violence over the weekend and I’ll repeat it today: We must defeat white supremacy and all forms of hatred. https://t.co/iOaVvE8txs
— Rep. Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) August 15, 2017
“I don’t understand what’s so hard about this,” Rep. Steve Stivers (Ohio) tweeted. “White supremacists and Neo-Nazis are evil and shouldn’t be defended.”
I don’t understand what’s so hard about this. White supremacists and Neo-Nazis are evil and shouldn’t be defended.
— Steve Stivers (@RepSteveStivers) August 15, 2017
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) tweeted, “Blaming “both sides” for #Charlottesville?! No. Back to relativism when dealing with KKK, Nazi sympathizers, white supremacists? Just no.”
Blaming “both sides” for #Charlottesville?! No. Back to relativism when dealing with KKK, Nazi sympathizers, white supremacists? Just no.
— Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (@RosLehtinen) August 15, 2017
Trump’s newest poll numbers show a declining approval number from his own base. The former reality show star’s approval rating has sunk to its lowest level yet and that survey was taken from some respondents before he made his initial controversial remarks about the violence in Charlottesville.
Republicans shouldn’t be shocked over Trump’s comments today, after all, he tried to delegitimize our country’s first black President by claiming Barack Obama is really a scary Muslim from Kenya who usurped the White House.
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