Sentences with phrase «condemn white nationalists»
Kenneth C. Frazier, chief executive of Merck, the pharmaceuticals company, on Monday resigned from President Trump's American Manufacturing Council after the president failed to directly condemn the white nationalist protesters at the center of violent protests in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend.
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That move has prompted fierce rebukes from Republicans and Democrats, who have condemned Trump and the white nationalists who praised his Tuesday remarks.
He said that while neo-Nazis and white nationalists «should be condemned totally,» Trump said protesters in the other group «also had trouble - makers.
After white nationalists clashed with protesters in Charlottesville this weekend, Trump did not initially condemn white supremacists or racists by name, prompting sharp criticism from all sides.
On Saturday afternoon, President Trump met criticism for condemning the «egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides» without singling out white nationalists or neo-Nazis.
Trump addressed the white nationalist rally sparking tension in Charlottesville only after his wife, Melania, condemned the violence and a barrage of criticism regarding his silence on the matter.
After he was widely criticized for only knocking violence from «many sides» at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., Trump delivered a statement explicitly condemning the «KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.»
Only hours after finally condemning racists, Trump last night retweeted a post by an infamous alt - right provocateur with ties to white nationalist Richard Spencer.
America's Anti-Defamation League, which campaigns to fight anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, condemned the appointment, describing the alt - right movement supported by Breitbart News as «a loose - knit group of white nationalists, unabashed anti-Semites and racists».
President Donald Trump signed a resolution condemning white supremacists and hate groups, hours after reviving his assertion that there were «bad dudes» among those opposing a white nationalist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, last month.