GOP Rep. Defends Trump For Blaming ‘Both Sides’ In Charlottesville

UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 12: Rep.-elect Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., arrives outside of the Capitol Hill Hotel during check-in for incoming freshmen members of Congress, November 12, 2014. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)... UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 12: Rep.-elect Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., arrives outside of the Capitol Hill Hotel during check-in for incoming freshmen members of Congress, November 12, 2014. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) (CQ Roll Call via AP Images) MORE LESS
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After President Donald Trump on Tuesday placed some blame on the “alt-left” for the violence in Charlottesville over the weekend, effectively undoing his previous statement condemning white nationalists, at least one Republican member of Congress jumped to the President’s defense.

In a Tuesday Facebook post, Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) said that Trump was right to call out liberals and said that the so-called antifa, short for anti-fascists, were as violent as those on the “alt right” that were protesting the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue.

“Antifa bused in criminals with bats and pepper spray for the purpose of committing acts of violence targeting anyone who was part of the protest against Charlottesville bringing down the statue of Robert E. Lee, whether associated with the KKK or Nazism or neither,” Zeldin wrote. “In the words of New York Times reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg, the ‘hard left’ was just at violent at the protest as the ‘alt right’.”

Zeldin did condemn “anyone associating themselves with the KKK and Nazism” and argued that Trump also “repeatedly” condemned those groups. He also said that the “hard left” and the “alt right” are “not equal,” but he again defended Trump for placing blame on both sides.

“I would add though that it is not right to suggest that President Trump is wrong for acknowledging the fact that criminals on both sides showed up for the purpose of being violent. That particular observation is completely true,” Zeldin argued.

“There is an element of our country that has pledged to resist, oppose, and obstruct this President entirely on absolutely everything and anything and to this population the President cannot say or do absolutely anything at all that they won’t criticize as long as he is in the office he was elected to serve in last November,” he added.

 

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  1. There should be a special section in hell reserved for Donald Trump and anyone in the GOP who supports him in his utterly immoral and indecent racism.

    And, alas, that will probably need to be a very large section.

  2. I see someone got the memo from the WH. Remember - if you watch Trump’s back, he’ll do whatever he damn well pleases, included endorsing your opponent.

  3. “There is an element of our country that has pledged to resist, oppose, and obstruct this President entirely…"

    You’re damn right, you Nazi wannabe piece of shit! We hear his words, we see what he’s doing to destroy this nation and her people and we want no part of it.

    How is it that so many of these Tramp supporters look like they’d be perfectly comfortable in an SS uniform?

  4. I’m not surprised that this morally bankrupt Nazi Republican gives his Führer pass after pass and I hope that the voters in his New York district throw his sorry ass out of office next November.

  5. “Antifa bused in criminals with bats and pepper spray for the purpose of committing acts of violence targeting anyone who was part of the protest against Charlottesville bringing down the statue of Robert E. Lee, whether associated with the KKK or Nazism or neither,” Zeldin wrote.

    Always with the busses, these lefties! They bus criminals in for violent act commission, they bus undocumented immigrants in for Hillary voting, they bus them here, they bus them there, it’s awful. There’s only one solution: BAN BUSSES. That’ll learn 'em.

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