Charlottesville backlash keeps eating through Trump’s coalition
The president’s response to Charlottesville kept drawing fire on August 17, with Republicans, military veterans, civil-rights advocates, and business figures still pressing him for a cleaner condemnation of white supremacists and neo-Nazis. What should have been a crisis-contained statement had become a days-long political bleed, with the White House stuck defending the president’s “both sides” language and trying to calm a backlash that would not stay quiet.
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Charlottesville backlash keeps eating through Trump’s coalition
The president’s response to Charlottesville kept drawing fire on August 17, with Republicans, military veterans, civil-rights advocates, and business figures still pressing him for a cleaner condemnation of white supremacists and neo-Nazis. What should have been a crisis-contained statement had become a days-long political bleed, with the White House stuck defending the president’s “both sides” language and trying to calm a backlash that would not stay quiet.
The president’s response to Charlottesville kept drawing fire on August 17, with Republicans, military veterans, civil-rights advocates, and business figures still pressing him for a cleaner condemnation of white supremacists and neo-Nazis. What should have been a crisis-contained statement had become a days-long political bleed, with the White House stuck defending the president’s “both sides” language and trying t…
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