Charlottesville trump

Speaker Paul D. Ryan called white supremacy “repulsive” and said “there can be no moral ambiguity.” Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Republican of Florida, tweeted: “Blaming ‘both sides’ for #Charlottesville trump?! No.” Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, said white nationalists in Charlottesville trump were “100% to blame” and wagged his finger at the president for suggesting otherwise. Mr. Trump said his initial statement was shaped by a lack of information about the events in Charlottesville trump, even though television statements had been broadcasting images of the violence throughout the morning. Mr. Trump said: “I thought it was terrific. Under the kind of stress that she is under and the heartache she is under, I thought putting out that statement to me was really something I won’t forget.”

He also unleashed his frustration at the news media on Tuesday, saying they were being “fake” because they did not acknowledge that his initial statement about the Charlottesville trump protest was “very nice.”

“Thank you President Trump for your honesty & courage to tell the truth about #Charlottesville trump,”  Mr. Duke said in a Twitter post.

But Mr. Trump also made it clear that even now — with the benefit of hindsight — he does not accept the overwhelming criticism that he should have reserved his condemnation for the white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups.