Trump Tweets On Charlottesville Rally: ‘No Place For This Kind Of Violence’

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President Trump tweeted there is “no place for this kind of violence” amid reports of violent clashes at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville.

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency after hundreds of people chanted, threw punches, hurled water bottles and unleashed chemical sprays on each other at the rally. Right-wing blogger Jason Kessler organized the Saturday rally to protest Charlottesville’s decision to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from Emancipation Park.

First Lady Melania Trump also tweeted just minutes before the President’s initial response.

Ironically, Trump’s history of calling for violence is well-known, despite his claims to the contrary.

Trump is currently at his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, where he is spending a 17-day working vacation.

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  1. Trump’s tweet about the Neo-NAZI hate march today condemns violence. Okay. Fine.

    Trump, however, doesn’t condemn the Neo-NAZI scum marching in Virginia (a/k/a his base). This is no coincidence.

  2. Rather vacuous statement, even for Trump. Melania is vacuous regardless.

  3. Avatar for 1gg 1gg says:

    Not the tune he was singing during the campaign.

  4. Right-wing blogger Jason Kessler organized the Saturday rally to protest Charlottesville’s decision to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from Emancipation Park.

    Because this is what those statues have always been about. Take them down and melt every one of them.

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