A head of government and a head of state should be able to straightforwardly condemn a murderous white supremacist terrorist attack without mealy-mouthing about "both sides" being to blame.
Noah Bierman reports on How the current American President handles it in 'Alt-left' charged at 'alt-right,' Trump says, again placing blame for Charlottesville violence 'on both sides' Los Angeles Times 08/15/2017.
Joe Biden, who supports democracy, tweeted this after Saturday's terrorist attack:
No Both Sides Do It on white racist terrorism from Joe Biden.
Sarah Posner also has some thoughts on the alt-right:
2. I interviewed Steve Bannon at the Republican National Convention. He told me that Breitbart is "the platform for the alt-right." Link:
— Sarah Posner (@sarahposner) August 15, 2017
— Sarah Posner (@sarahposner) August 15, 2017
5. Today Trump pretended to not really know what the alt-right is. Completely unconvincingly, of course, but that's his M.O.
— Sarah Posner (@sarahposner) August 15, 2017
7. white supremacists and neo-Nazis in it, always try to explain it. Here, though, the point is that Trump hired as his chief strategist
— Sarah Posner (@sarahposner) August 15, 2017
9. is complete and utter BS. Utter BS.
— Sarah Posner (@sarahposner) August 15, 2017
11. He can pretend all he wants that he he has no idea what we're all talking about, these terrible people, and who me? They endorsed me?
— Sarah Posner (@sarahposner) August 15, 2017
12. But when we were putting together this piece (https://t.co/B2LHtHsCtn) we compiled a list of all these extremists who had endorsed him.
— Sarah Posner (@sarahposner) August 15, 2017
14. to the Trump campaign for comment. We asked whether he wanted to distance himself from or repudiate these endorsements. The response?
— Sarah Posner (@sarahposner) August 15, 2017
16. And it's not like the Trump campaign didn't get back to me in response to other requests. They did. Just not that one. Made multiple X.
— Sarah Posner (@sarahposner) August 15, 2017
17. So they knew. And they chose to say nothing, and he chose to hedge, make begrudging "I disavows" at subsequent events, such as the
— Sarah Posner (@sarahposner) August 15, 2017
19. The heil siegs of course made headlines. But I also met Holocaust deniers there. After I wrote about that, Daily Stormer put me on its
— Sarah Posner (@sarahposner) August 15, 2017
21. Anyway, Trump's behavior over the past three days is in character. And in today's press conference he was completely unshackled by
— Sarah Posner (@sarahposner) August 15, 2017
22. anyone -- Kelly, Ivanka, whomever is allegedly the voice of reason -- and we saw what Trump really thinks. No ducking that now. /fin
— Sarah Posner (@sarahposner) August 15, 2017
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