Trump criticized by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle for latest Charlottesville remarks

WASHINGTON- Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle took to Twitter Tuesday to express their disapproval of President Donald Trump’s suggestion that anti-racist counter-protestors and the white nationalists they confronted-are equally responsible for the violence that ensued last weekend in Charlottesville, Va.

Trump told reporters Tuesday: “You had a group on one side that was bad, and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent, and nobody wants to say that, but I’ll say it right now.”

Trump’s suggestion of a moral equivalency between white nationalists and anti-racist counter-protestors came just one day after he had denounced racist hate groups by name.

That denunciation was preceded by two days of intense criticism from civil rights groups as well as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who either said or suggested that Trump’s initial condemnation of Saturday’s event was insufficient.

Trump’s Saturday remarks appeared similar to what he had said on Tuesday:

“We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence, on many sides. On many sides.”

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