Eric Cantor lashes Donald Trump for 'assigning equal blame' in Charlottesville

Former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told the Washington Examiner he was disappointed with the weekend’s events in Charlottesville, Va., as well as President Trump’s move Tuesday to equate the actions of white supremacists there with demonstrators who held counter-protests.

“There needs to be outspoken rejection of neo-Nazis, of white supremacists, and KKK, and there should be absolutely no equivocation,” said Cantor, of Richmond, who served in the Virginia House of Delegates before being elected to Congress. He rose to House majority leader, making him the highest ranking elected Jewish politician in America until he was defeated in his Republican primary in 2014.