Headline Roundup • August 16th, 2017
Trump Blames Both Sides for VA Violence
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Fox News Digital
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.

The Hill
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.

New York Times (News)
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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