Trump lashes out again in latest defense of Charlottesville remarks
President Trump has repeatedly lashed out at those who criticized his statements about the Charlottesville violence and left key parts of his past statements when he spoke about it again at a rally in Phoenix on Tuesday, saying there were “very fine” people on both sides of the rally.
The Phoenix rally was the fourth time Trump spoke publicly about the violence. At different points, previously, he said there were “very fine” people on both sides of the Charlottesville violence, denounced “the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans, ” and then later doubled down saying that there was violence “on many sides.”
Here is a rundown of what the president has said since the Aug. 12 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where violence broke out between white nationalists and counterprotesters.
