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President Trump, however, disagreed.

"We're at a point where there needs to be radical changes take place at the White House itself. President Trump, he argued, decided "to stand up for. bigots and defend a domestic terrorist organization", he said on an ABC's Powerhouse Politics" podcast.

Corker's remarks are some of the strongest Republican backlash to Trump's suggestions that both sides bear blame in the Charlottesville, Virginia incident last week. The president has urged the Florida governor, a Republican, to run for the Senate.

Another Republican senator who has sometimes been critical of Trump, Susan Collins of ME, said Thursday, "The president should've spoken out far more strongly from the very beginning".

While most Democrats and Independents disagreed, 87 percent of Republicans backed the statement.

Trump lashed out on Thursday at Republican U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham and Jeff Flake, two leading critics, as well as the media, and said he not had drawn any moral comparisons between white supremacists and those who opposed them. What I'm saying is this - you had a group on one side, and you had a group on the other, and they came at each other with clubs and it was vicious and it was disgusting and it was a frightful thing to watch. "And that moral authority is compromised".

Trump and Scott have met previously.

"He also recently has not demonstrated that he understands the character of this nation".

"My daughter had a mission to make things fair and equitable for everyone, and I am going to continue that mission".

Earlier Thursday, Trump jumped back into the roiling controversy over his remarks blaming both sides for the violence as he decried the "foolish" removal of Confederate monuments and attacked two other Republican senators who criticized him.

"Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our handsome statues and monuments", the president wrote. "Robert E. Lee. Stonewall Jackson - who's next, Washington, Jefferson?"

Despite ongoing rebukes over his defence of white supremacists, USA president Donald Trump defiantly returned to his campaign's nativist themes on Thursday. He just can't forget his election trouncing. Lindsey Graham of SC and Jeff Flake of Arizona.

"Condemning neo-Nazis and white supremacists should be easy", the Indianapolis Democrat said. White House aides, for days, have said that Trump wanted to speak with the family but that they were working on the logistics of the call. "For the sake of our nation - as our president - please fix this". "History is watching us all". "I saw an actual clip of him at a press conference equating the protesters, like Ms Heyer, with the KKK and the white supremacists", an emotional Bro said in response to a question yesterday. He also accused what he called "alt-left" protesters of charging at the neo-Nazi groups with clubs.

The president appears to be incapable of embarrassment, even as he embarrasses our country. Trump has "a history and a habit of minimizing groups of people", he said.

As Day Six of the White House reaction to Charlottesville wore on, some Republicans were sharpening their criticism of Trump.

Trump called Flake, who has criticized him, "toxic" and all but endorsed Kelli Ward, who is challenging Flake in a primary.

In a statement, the mayor said he was seeking to magnify Heyer's voice, as her mother asked. "The White House would be well-served to embrace the character, the substance of someone like Senator Flake. You had some fine people".