Should Statues Of Slave Owner George Washington Be Torn Down, Too?

If you look, they were people protesting very quietly the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee. The rally of white nationalists, met by counter-protests, quickly became violent, prompting the governor to declare a "state of emergency".

"I think there is blame on both sides", Trump said.

On Tuesday, the President said that "before I make a statement, I like to know the facts".

"When the President won't stand with you for more than 12 hours against Nazis, this cuts deep", said CNN commentator Van Jones. "And that is - you can call this terrorism, you can call it murder, you can call it whatever you want". "The driver of the auto is a murderer". You're changing culture. And you had people, and I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally. "This is a great honor for me today", Trump said then.

"I wish he would do a no-holds barred presser like that once a month, it was EPIC & history in the making".

He also doubled down on his remark that both sides of the fight deserve blame.

He said that just as there were innocent citizens voicing their opinion for the removal of the city's Robert E. Lee statue, there were also innocent demonstrators there to speak out against its removal. I noticed that Stonewall Jackson's coming down.

Fox News host Matha MacCallum responded, "You could make an argument for Thomas Jefferson or George Washington. You have to ask yourself, where does it stop?" he said, later noting that both the first and third American presidents had owned slaves.

"George Washington as a slave owner", he continued.

Social media erupted after President Trump's remarks Tuesday about the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Confederate statues.

OK? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly.

"I guarantee you, they are going to go to Washington, and they are going to demand that the Washington Monument be torn down". Yes we know that but Donald Trump just made it fashionable again! Now he is engaged in false moral equivalency to such an extent that he is receiving praise from David Duke and white supremacists around the country, and he is acting like a cable-TV shouting head instead of offering words of courage and comfort to a saddened country.

"Blaming "both sides" for #Charlottesville?!" But he also said that he believed that some of the people who showed up for the protest were "fine people". But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists.

But in front of reporters at Trump Tower in NY, the President seemingly spontaneously said there were "bad" people on both sides in Charlottesville, reopening the controversy and raising new questions as to how his administration will be viewed over race relations. A man drove a auto into a group of counter-protesters Saturday, killing one and injuring more than a dozen others. What about the fact they came charging with clubs in hands, swinging clubs? "Nobody wants to say that". But I'll say it right now. "You had a group on one side and the other and they came at each other with clubs and it was vicious and frightful".