Trump Goes After Graham and Flake on Twitter

Published August 17, 2017 4:15pm ET



President Donald Trump’s response to the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville has drawn repeated criticism from Republican lawmakers. On Thursday, the president fired back.

Republican members of Congress have denounced Trump’s remarks twice: first on Saturday, when he did not pointedly denounce the KKK, neo-Nazis, and other far-right groups behind the rally, and again on Tuesday, when Trump blamed both white supremacists and counterprotesters for the violence, a remark widely denounced as false equivalence.

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