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''THAT WAS INSANE.''Jake Tapper amazed by Trump’s press conference in Trump Tower on Charlottesville
- Published_at:2017-08-15
- Category:People & Blogs
- Channel:Politics Video Channel
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- description: Jake Tapper on Tuesday reacted in shock to Donald Trump’s incredible press conference, wherein the president insisted “both sides” were to blame for the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. “Good afternoon, and welcome to ‘The Lead,’” Tapper began. “Wow, that was something else.” “President Trump, amid the backlash over his conflicting tweets and statements, going off in extraordinary fashion,” Tapper explained, noting a press conference billed about infrastructure quickly turned into “the president strongly defending his initial response to the Charlottesville violence.” “[Trump’s] staff spent days insisting that he was condemning the Ku Klux Klan and Nazis and white supremacists and not equating them with the counter-protesters, some of whom obviously were also violent. He was focusing on the Nazis and the racists who had come into this progressive college town and marched and chanted saying anti-Semitic things and racist things.” Tapper noted Trump’s comments today essentially negated his “strong condemnation” of white supremacy. “Here we have President Trump revealing that
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