Trump again eases up on white supremacists

Donald Trump is back to blaming "both sides" for the violence in Charlottesville last weekend.

OMG! It's one step forward and two steps back for Donald Trump. Can anything get more weirder?

After today (Aug. 15), we realize that his statement on Monday was just a phony baloney act to calm down those Republicans criticizing his non-statements about Charlottesville on Saturday. On Monday, he belatedly denounced, specifically, the white nationalists, neo-Nazis, KKK and those who refuse to admit the Confederacy lost the Civil War.

In an off-the-rails press conference, Trump off-the-cuff, revealed that he didn't really mean what he said on Monday. He said, “Not all of those people were neo-Nazis, believe me,” he said. “Not all of those people were white supremacists by any stretch.”

Trump’s remarks — which put the largely peaceful counter-protesters in Charlottesville on a par with the white supremacists they assembled there to protest — are a return to his widely criticized remarks from the weekend.

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Trump went on to defend the “Unite the Right” rally’s decision to protest the removal of a monument to Confederate general Robert E. Lee, suggesting that this was a slippery slope to toppling statues of founding fathers and slave owners George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

Did Donald Trump ever take an American history class?

In a press conference, Trump equated George Washington and Thomas Jefferson with two Confederate generals. He asserted that most of the people in Charlottesville to protest the taking down of a statue of Confederate Gen. Lee. "This week its Robert E. Lee, I wonder, I notice  Stonewall Jackson coming down. I wonder, is it George Washington. Is it Thomas Jefferson the following week?" 

Really? The former two were trying to create "a more perfect Union" while Lee and Jackson were trying to destroy our country.

An unidentified Asian man was seen marching with the white
supremacists in Charlottesville, VA.

Standing awkwardly behind Trump throughout the presser was Sec. of Transportation Elaine Chao, the daughter of immigrants and wife of Senate GOP leader Sen. Mitch McConnell. McConnell has been one of Trump's targets since the Trumpcare bill failed to pass the Senate.

(EDITOR'S NOTE: Earlier versions of this post incorrectly named Elaine Chao's cabinet position.)

Though he was roundly criticized for his impromptu press conference which reportedly caught his staff by surprise, at least two people in America were pleased with what Trump said.

“Thank you President Trump for your honesty & courage to tell the truth,” tweeted David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan leader. Richard B. Spencer, a white nationalist leader who coined the term alt-right was equally thankful in his tweet, “Trump’s statement was fair and down to earth.”

Rep. Bobby Scott, a Filipino/American congressman for Virginia, tweeted today (Aug. 15), "I am extremely disappointed to see @realDonaldTrump miss another opportunity to help the country heal after the events in #Charlottesville"

After researching the Charlottesville media coverage, on second thought, maybe Trump was right. Not everyone of the Unite the Right rally was a white nationalist. There was at least one Asian male seen marching with the neo-Nazis, KKK and white supremacists. 

Who is this guy? Anybody?

The video taped by an ACLU staffer caught the videographer by surprise. Later in the day, the Asian man was spotted again with the white nationalists confirming his affiliation with the demonstrators.

Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., one of Trump's consistent critics, (his Twitter account has been blocked by Trump and Ivanka) had this to tweet:

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