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Headline Roundup August 16th, 2017

Trump Blames Both Sides for VA Violence

Summary from the AllSides News Team

Trump laid blame on the “alt-left” as well as white supremacists and neo-Nazis for the unrest that erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend.

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Trump's 'both sides' comments spark new tensions with Hill Republicans
Trump's 'both sides' comments spark new tensions with Hill Republicans

Fox News Digital

News

President Trump's renewed claim that "both sides" share blame for the deadly violence at last weekend's Virginia rally organized by white supremacists has stoked new tensions with congressional Republicans.

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Trump reignites race firestorm
Trump reignites race firestorm

The Hill

News

President Trump supercharged a firestorm over race and violence on Tuesday with a news conference in the lobby of his Manhattan skyscraper that was controversial and chaotic even by his unusual standards.

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OPINION: Mr. Trump Makes a Spectacle of Himself
OPINION: Mr. Trump Makes a Spectacle of Himself

New York Times (News)

Opinion

Here is one thing we are reminded of over and over about President Trump: The man simply cannot help himself — especially when cornered. Given one more chance to forcefully condemn the neo-Nazis and white supremacists whose rally in Charlottesville, Va., ended in violence and a counterprotester’s death, Mr. Trump angrily insisted, as he had suggested on Saturday, that both sides were equally to blame — a false equivalency that not just his critics but also an increasing number of his supporters have urged him to abandon.

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