Trump claims deadly 2017 rally of white nationalists ‘was a little peanut’ compared to anti-Israel campus protests

Donald Trump claims the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was “nothing” compared to ongoing anti-Israel campus protests, the latest instance in which he has downplayed a racist incident that was one of the most criticized moments of his presidency. Speaking in a Manhattan courtroom hallway at the day’s end of his criminal hush money trial, Trump blames US President Joe Biden for student protesters who have set up encampments as they call for a ceasefire in the war Israel launched after Hamas’s October 7 terror onslaught. Biden has...