House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi criticized President Trump’s latest reaction to the violent demonstration in Charlottesville, in which he said there was “blame on both sides.”
Pelosi said the incident could only be attributed to “white nationalist violence.”
“The president’s press conference today made plain that the statement he gave on Saturday is what he really believes,” Pelosi said. “The president’s continued talk of blame ‘on many sides’ ignores the abhorrent evil of white supremacism, and continues a disturbing pattern of complacency around acts of hate from this president, his administration and his campaign for the presidency.”
Trump said Tuesday that there were several groups of people involved in the clashes, which began as an alt-right demonstration against the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue and attracted counter-protesters on the Left.
“You had a group on one side that was bad and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent,” Trump said.
Pelosi suggested in her statement there was no room for blaming others.
A 32-year-old counter-demonstrator died after an alt-right participant plowed his car into a crowd.
“There is only one side to be on when a white supremacist mob brutalizes and murders in America,” Pelosi said. “The American people deserve a president who understands that.”
