memeorandum: Trump babbles in the face of tragedy (Michael Gerson/Washington Post)

12:45 PM ET, August 13, 2017

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Claudia Koerner / BuzzFeed:

Here's What We Know About The Man Accused Of Killing A Woman At A White Supremacist Rally — A 20-year-old man was arrested on Saturday after police said he plowed his car into a group of protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia. … Nine pedestrians were injured in the crash, and a 32-year-old woman was killed.

Discussion: Business Insider, The Atlantic and The Federalist

David Caplan / ABC News:

Mother of Charlottesville suspect: ‘I just knew he was going to a rally ... I thought it had something to do with Trump’ — The mother of the man who allegedly plowed into a group of people protesting a white nationalist rally Saturday in Virginia said she knew her son was attending a rally …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

Toledo Blade:

Charlottesville rocked by white nationalist protests; Total of dead reaches 3 — CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A car with a Lucas County license plate plowed into a crowd of people peacefully protesting a white nationalist rally Saturday in a Virginia college town, killing one person …

Discussion: Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, FOX6Now.com, Slate and NPR

New York Times:

Trump Is Criticized for Not Calling Out White Supremacists — BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — President Trump is rarely reluctant to express his opinion, but he is often seized by caution when addressing the violence and vitriol of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and alt-right activists, some of whom are his supporters.

Chuck Johnston / CNN:

Charlottesville car crash suspect ID'd as 20-year-old Ohio man — (CNN)The suspect being held in a Virginia jail in connection with a deadly crash near a scheduled rally of white nationalists has been identified as James Alex Fields Jr., 20, of Maumee, Ohio, according to Superintendent Martin Kumer …

Discussion: COED, twitchy.com, WTVR-TV, RedState and Mediaite

Eli Watkins / CNN:

Charlottesville mayor on Trump: ‘Look at the campaign he ran’ — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Washington (CNN)Charlottesville Democratic mayor Michael Signer said Sunday that President Donald Trump had emboldened organized racists who caused the racially charged violence in his city over the weekend.

Media Matters for America:

Fox & Friends Sunday defends white supremacist Charlottesville protesters: “There's a reason those people were out there” — PETE HEGSETH (CO-HOST): I think the president nailed it. He condemned in the strongest possible terms hatred and bigotry on all sides as opposed to immediately picking a side out the gate.

Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Charlottesville mayor: We're not seeing leadership from the White House

Discussion: Politico

Dallas Morning News: Amid the violence in Virginia, President Trump failed in a test of leadership

Washington Post:
One dead and 19 injured as car strikes crowds along route of white nationalist rally in Charlottesville

Tampa Bay Times:
Marco Rubio: Donald Trump needs to clearly denounce white supremacists in Charlottesville

Discussion: The Atlantic and Denver Post

David Caplan / ABC News:
What we know about the violent clashes and car-ramming in Charlottesville

Discussion: MichelleMalkin.com, Raw Story, The Week, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Associated Press and New York Magazine

Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
Three dead, dozens hurt after Virginia white nationalist rally is dispersed; Trump blames ‘many sides’

Discussion: Raw Story

Michael Edison Hayden / ABC News:
White nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia sparks violent clashes, turns deadly

Discussion: Vox, Associated Press, Mediaite, IJR, twitchy.com, RedState, Raw Story, The Gateway Pundit, Sputnik International, Politicus USA and Fox News

Associated Press:
The Latest: Chopper crash linked to white nationalist rally

Discussion: IJR, USA Today, Gizmodo, Washington Post, CBS News, The Root and CNN

Michael Edison Hayden / ABC News:
Man charged with murder for allegedly plowing into crowd in Charlottesville following white nationalist rally

Discussion: Daily Progress, Shareblue, The Gateway Pundit, ThinkProgress, Fox News, Raw Story, New York Post, New York's PIX11, TheBlaze, Balloon Juice, Sputnik International, CNBC, The Daily Signal, Conservative News Today, twitchy.com, The Federalist and Talking Points Memo

Nancy Cook / Politico:
Trump fails to condemn white supremacists in statement on Charlottesville violence

Discussion: Axios, Dallas Morning News, The Hill, israpundit.org, Conservative News Today, The Atlantic, twitchy.com, TheBlaze, Vox, RedState, NBC News, IJR, Business Insider, ABC News, Washington Post, Raw Story, Mediaite and Mashable

Fox News:
Injuries reported after car plows into protesters during clashes at ‘Unite the Right’ rally

Joshua Eaton / ThinkProgress:
Violence erupts at Klan-like rally through the University of Virginia campus

Discussion: UVA Today, Shareblue and Hullabaloo

Meghan Keneally / ABC News:

Scaramucci criticizes Trump's reaction to Charlottesville violence — Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci had harsh words for President Donald Trump's reaction to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, this weekend. — Scaramucci spoke to ABC News Chief Anchor …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, The Daily Caller, Political Wire and The Week

Dakshayani Shankar / ABC News:
Any attack to incite fear ‘is terrorism’: Trump's national security adviser on Charlottesville

Discussion: Politico

Frank Bruni / New York Times:

I'm a White Man. Hear Me Out. — I'm a white man, so you should listen to absolutely nothing I say, at least on matters of social justice. I have no standing. No way to relate. My color and gender nullify me, and it gets worse: I grew up in the suburbs. Dad made six figures.

Discussion: JustOneMinute and Simple Justice

Michael Gerson / Washington Post:

Trump babbles in the face of tragedy — President Trump speaks about events in Charlottesville on Saturday in Bedminster, N.J. (Jim Watson/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images) — One of the difficult but primary duties of the modern presidency is to speak for the nation in times of tragedy.

Discussion: Fox News, Vox, Raw Story, Washingtonian and The Daily Caller

Associated Press:

American tourist gives Nazi salute in Germany, is beaten up — https://apnews.com/7038efa32f324d8ea9fa 2ff7eadf8f20 — Link copied! — BERLIN (AP) — Police say a drunken American man was punched by a passer-by as he gave the stiff-armed Nazi salute multiple times in downtown Dresden.

Discussion: The Root

Nicole Hensley / New York Daily News:

Paralegal killed during protest of Charlottesville white supremacist rally: ‘She died doing what was right’ — Counter-protesters and medics rushed to help the lone victim who died during a peaceful Charlottesville protest disrupted by a madman with a sports car on Saturday.

Discussion: The Guardian, WTVR-TV, New York's PIX11, The Root, Common Dreams and alicublog

Bernie Becker / Politico:

Think Obamacare repeal was hard? Wait for tax reform — Congressional Republicans need to think again if they're hoping tax reform will offer them an easy victory after their bungled Obamacare repeal effort. — Rewriting the tax code will be just as difficult as health care — maybe even more so.