The following article by Kristine Phillips was posted on the Washington Post website August 13, 2017:
President Trump condemned “hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides” in addressing the riots in Charlottesville on Saturday, when hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members who planned to stage a rally clashed with counterprotesters.
“The hate and division must stop. And must stop right now,” Trump said, reading a prepared statement at his resort in Bedminster, N.J. “We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. On many sides.”
He did not say which “sides” he was referring to, or whose hatred and bigotry he was condemning. He did not call out white nationalists or white supremacists, even after a car plowed into counterprotesters, killing one and injuring 19.
Trump’s comments, while praised by the well-known neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website, were met with widespread rebuke, even from members of his own party. Some were quick to point out that when triggered, Trump usually reacts swiftly and specifically, typically on Twitter. But not Saturday, when one of the sides that perpetrated violence did so while invoking his name, and when he didn’t tweet until several hours into the riot.
By Sunday morning, Trump’s eldest daughter, Ivanka, tweeted a reaction with a level of specificity that was absent in her father’s statement:
Several Republican lawmakers have either called out Trump or issued statements singling out white nationalists and white supremacists.
Here are some of them: