Trump claims vindication on Charlottesville ‘Antifa’ comments

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President Trump claimed Thursday that people have warmed to his argument last month about “bad dudes” populating both sides of a white supremacist rally and the demonstrators who showed up in Charlottesville, Va. in early August to counter-protest them.

His comments in the days after the Charlottesville rally turned violent, resulting in the death of an anti-fascist protester, received widespread condemnation from both sides of the aisle due to the equivalence he seemed to draw between the neo-Nazi marchers and those who opposed them.

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