TPM - "White Nationalists Are Lovin Trumps Delayed Condemnation Of Hate Groups"

[NRaleighLiberal]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/white-nationalists-praise-trump-charlottesville-response-condemned-counter-protesters

By ALLEGRA KIRKLAND Published AUGUST 14, 2017 2:11 PM

The two-day delay between the outbreak of violence at white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia and President Donald Trump’s short remarks Monday calling out the “KKK, neo-Nazis, [and] white supremacists” by name was sharply criticized by his critics and allies alike.

The far-right extremists supportive of the “Unite The Right” rally, held Saturday to protest the planned removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, took notice, too.

In delaying an explicit condemnation of hate groups and initially criticizing “many sides” involved in the conflict, white nationalists said, the President provided political cover and allowed counter-protesters to share blame for the violence, which turned deadly when a man who’d espoused white supremacist views drove his car into the crowd, killing one woman and injuring at least 19 others.

“As he pointed out, there was violence and malice on both sides, and to pretend somehow that there was only violence on one side or hostility on one side, that’s just wrong,” Jared Taylor, head of white nationalist publication American Renaissance, told TPM. “Joe Biden said there’s only one side. Well, wait a minute, if the counter-demonstrators would not have showed up, there would have been no violence at all. It takes two to do this.”



Lots more to read at the link - snip. Long and worth it.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Trump has invited more killing of patriots.