White House counselor Kellyanne Conway defended President Trump on Sunday over renewed criticism of his comments following the 2017 violence in Charlottesville, Va. – arguing that the president had “condemned white nationalism” and that his words following the incident has been distorted for political gain.
Trump was slammed by both sides of the aisle for his remarks in the summer of 2017 that there were “very fine people on both sides” during the white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, where participants had chanted phrases like “Jews will not replace us.”
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