Noted white supremacist and current President of the United States Donald Trump said something colossally and freshly stupid today. In other news, it's a day ending in 'Y', and yes, wouldn't we all like to know why why why.
The NYT reports that Trump today repeated his claim that both sides shared blame for the Charlottesville violence: The left has "pretty bad dudes" also, he said, stupidly.
Mark Landler, writing for the Times today:
Mr. Trump was characterizing his side of a conversation on Wednesday with Senator Tim Scott, Republican of South Carolina, during which Mr. Scott, the Senate's only black Republican, said he confronted the president on his claim that "both sides" were responsible for the violence that followed a torchlight protest against the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee.
"Especially in light of the advent of Antifa, if you look at what's going on there, you know, you have some pretty bad dudes on the other side also," Mr. Trump said, referring to the anti-fascist group that clashed with neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
Mr. Trump has offered constantly shifting statements about Charlottesville, alternately condemning the hate groups and declaring a moral equivalence between them and the counter-protesters. On Thursday, speaking to reporters on Air Force One, Mr. Trump reverted to the unapologetic stance he took in a news conference last month at Trump Tower.
"Now because of what's happened since then, with Antifa, you look at really what's happened since Charlottesville — a lot of people are saying — in fact, a lot of people have actually written, 'Gee, Trump might have point," Mr. Trump said. "I said, 'You've got some very bad people on the other side, which is true.'"
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