Tag: Charlottesville

CNN's Chris Cuomo spars with CNN political commentator Steve Cortes for equating neo-Nazis and Antifa, who clashed during the deadly Charlottesville protests in 2017. #CNN #News

CNN's Don Lemon critiques President Donald Trump for his responses to questions on white nationalism after various acts of extremist violence.

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." "Well, the irony is that he condemned white nationalism and neo-Nazis and the KKK during the Charlottesville incident," Conway said on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday. Conway added that Trump’s “very fine people” comment was in reference to “the debate over removing statues.” She added: "He was not talking about the weekend at all." While Trump was largely panned at the time for his comments, those words have come under renewed scrutiny after former Vice President Joe Biden launched his Democratic presidential campaign by condemning them. Biden blasted Trump's "moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it" and declared the election a "battle for the soul of this nation." Biden is positioning himself as the anti-Trump, an experienced elder statesman ready to restore stability to Washington. Conway’s defense on the president comes days after Trump himself tried to downplay the renewed controversy – arguing that he was referring to some who were protesting the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general. Trump praised Lee as "a great general, everybody knows that." The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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As counter-protesters outnumbered white nationalists who rallied Sunday in Washington on the one-year anniversary of Charlottesville, the president sent a tweet saying he condemns all forms of racism. The panel discusses. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About: MSNBC is the…

Vice News Tonight correspondent Elle Reeve investigates the state of the alt-right a year after Charlottesville, and she joins Morning Joe to discuss where several once-prominent members of the alt-right are in 2018. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About: MSNBC…

One year after the deadly white supremacist demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia, the state's former Democratic governor said President Donald Trump failed to live up to the moment.

After President Donald Trump condemned "all types of racism" on the one-year anniversary of violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, CNN's Victor Blackwell highlighted the President's history of divisive rhetoric.

Theo Wilson talks about going undercover online as a white supremacist ahead of the one-year anniversary of violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

After President Trump tweeted following protests during a pre-season NFL game, CNN's Chris Cuomo says Trump picked up right where he left off.