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inanna

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Sat Aug 12, 2017, 07:01 PM Aug 2017

Trump -- once again -- fails to condemn the alt-right, white supremacists

Updated 6:40 PM ET, Sat August 12, 2017

Bridgewater, New Jersey (CNN)President Donald Trump, a man known for his bluntness, was anything but on Saturday, failing to name the white supremacists or alt-right groups at the center of violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Instead, the man whose vicious attacks against Hillary Clinton, John McCain, federal judges, fellow Republican leaders and journalists helped define him both in and out of the White House simply blamed "many sides."

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Fellow Republicans slammed Trump's lack of directness and attempt to inject moral equivalence into the situation of chaos and terror.

"We should call evil by its name," tweeted Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, the most senior Republican in the Senate. "My brother didn't give his life fighting Hitler for Nazi ideas to go unchallenged here at home."


http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/12/politics/trump-fails-to-condemn-the-alt-right-white-supremacists/index.html
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Trump -- once again -- fails to condemn the alt-right, white supremacists (Original Post) inanna Aug 2017 OP
So true, that's because Donald Trump is one of them YCHDT Aug 2017 #1
He's building his own Mini-Me army! leftstreet Aug 2017 #2
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