The following article by Niall Stanage was posted on the Hill website August 11, 2018:
President Trump’s attitude to race is under the microscope at the first anniversary of fatal racist violence in Charlottesville, Va.
Trump’s reference to “some very fine people on both sides” after white supremacists converged on the Virginia city and a counterprotestor, 32-year-old Heather Heyer, was killed, sparked outrage and prompted even many Republicans to distance themselves from him.
The furor did nothing to water down Trump’s willingness to step into sensitive, racially charged areas, however, a fact underlined by the president’s tweets in the past week.