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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCNN: Donald Trump's presidency is headed to a very dark place
(CNN) - Donald Trump's insistence Tuesday that "both sides" were responsible for the violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, has turned what was a fumbling presidency into what now appears to be one on the verge of total collapse.
"You had a group on one side that was bad, and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent, and nobody wants to say that, but I'll say it right now," Trump told reporters at a press availability Tuesday in New York City.
That stance was a reversal from comments Trump made 24 hours earlier, condemning the white supremacists and neo-Nazis who had gathered in Charlottesville to protest the removal of a confederate statue. It was, however, broadly in line with what Trump said Saturday even as the protests were raging -- arguing that there was plenty of blame "on many sides" for the violence.
Trump's comments on Tuesday provoked massive, across-the-board outrage with virtually every Republican elected official in the country expressing their disagreement and disapproval with Trump's sentiments, although, notably, most did not call out the President by name.
"You had a group on one side that was bad, and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent, and nobody wants to say that, but I'll say it right now," Trump told reporters at a press availability Tuesday in New York City.
That stance was a reversal from comments Trump made 24 hours earlier, condemning the white supremacists and neo-Nazis who had gathered in Charlottesville to protest the removal of a confederate statue. It was, however, broadly in line with what Trump said Saturday even as the protests were raging -- arguing that there was plenty of blame "on many sides" for the violence.
Trump's comments on Tuesday provoked massive, across-the-board outrage with virtually every Republican elected official in the country expressing their disagreement and disapproval with Trump's sentiments, although, notably, most did not call out the President by name.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/16/politics/donald-trump-crisis/index.html
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CNN: Donald Trump's presidency is headed to a very dark place (Original Post)
spanone
Aug 2017
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dalton99a
(81,515 posts)1. Just like Putin intended
A duly elected crazy racist asshole in the Oval Office
SHRED
(28,136 posts)2. It's already there
SHRED
(28,136 posts)3. This whole notion of "verge of total collapse"
Its been going on for over 200 days.
spanone
(135,844 posts)4. i'm glad it's being reported.