memeorandum: These are your people, President Trump (Colbert I. King/Washington Post)

2:05 PM ET, August 13, 2017

Top Items:

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

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.

Discussion: ThinkProgress

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: Hit & Run, The Guardian, Mashable, WTVR-TV, The Root, Common Dreams, New York's PIX11 and alicublog

Washington Post:

Syria's Assad has become an unexpected icon of the far right in America … BEIRUT — Among the postings on what might have been the Facebook page of James Alex Fields Jr., the driver of the car that killed a counterprotester at the right-wing demonstrations in Charlottesville, Va. on Saturday …

Chris Cillizza / CNN:

Donald Trump's incredibly unpresidential statement on Charlottesville — (CNN)A group of white supremacists — screaming racial, ethnic and misogynistic epithets — rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday. One person was killed and 19 others were injured when a car sped into a group of counter-protesters.

Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Republican senator: White nationalists can't be part of GOP base

Discussion: RedState, Shareblue, Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine, israpundit.org, Sputnik International, The Gateway Pundit and AOL

Eli Watkins / CNN:
Charlottesville mayor on Trump: ‘Look at the campaign he ran’

Discussion: Mashable

New York Times:
Trump Is Criticized for Not Calling Out White Supremacists

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
He's One of Them — As we get underway today, a few thoughts on yesterday.

Discussion: ThinkProgress

Madeline Conway / Politico:
Charlottesville mayor: There is a ‘direct line’ between Trump campaign and white supremacist rally

Discussion: The Week

BuzzFeed:
Live Updates: The Charlottesville Mayor Blames Trump's Rhetoric For White Supremacist March Violence

Discussion: COED, The Week and twitchy.com

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

Madeline Conway / Politico:
Sessions opens federal probe on Charlottesville

Discussion: The Root

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

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

Discussion: The Atlantic, Telegraph, Dallas Morning News, Denver Post and ThinkProgress

WCPO:

Charlottesville car attack suspect James Fields Jr. was ‘infatuated’ with Nazis, ex-teacher says — Fields recently moved from Northern Kentucky — UNION, Ky. — The man police said rammed his car into a crowd of people protesting a white nationalist rally was “very infatuated with the Nazis …

Discussion: Washington Post and The Daily Caller

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, CNN, NPR, FOX6Now.com, Associated Press, Slate, Weekly Standard and Gizmodo

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’

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

New York Times:
What We Know About James Alex Fields, Driver Charged in Charlottesville Killing

Discussion: Axios

Chuck Johnston / CNN:
Charlottesville car crash suspect ID'd as 20-year-old Ohio man

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

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

Phil Helsel / NBC News:
Federal Probe Into Charlottesville; Sessions Says ‘Justice Will Prevail’

Discussion: Axios, Associated Press, Power Line, NBC News, The Week and TheBlaze

Joe Ruiz / NPR.org:
Ohio Man Charged With Murder In Virginia Car Attack Following White Nationalist Rally

Discussion: Althouse, The Guardian, NPR, CNN and Washington Free Beacon

Meghan Breen / KTVN-TV:

UNR Student Talks After Marching in Charlottesville White Nationalist Rally — Thousands gathered to protest in the streets Charlottesville, Virginia Saturday, among them was 20 year-old Reno resident Peter Cvjetanovic. — Cvjetanovic is an undergraduate at the university studying history and political science.

Discussion: Raw Story and The Root

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: Talking Points Memo, ThinkProgress, New York Times, The Daily Caller, Political Wire and The Week

Madeline Conway / Politico:
Scaramucci criticizes Trump's Charlottesville response and blames Bannon

Discussion: ABC News, Business Insider and Axios

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

Discussion: Politico and The Week

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: Vox, Raw Story, AOL and The Daily Caller

Colbert I. King / Washington Post:
These are your people, President Trump

Discussion: Fox News, The Root, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, The FADER, Daily Mail, Washingtonian, Hit & Run and Lawyers, Guns & Money

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

Patricia Mazzei / miamiherald:

Powerful Venezuelan lawmaker may have issued death order against Rubio — One of Venezuela's most powerful leaders may have put out an order to kill Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a fervent critic of the South American country's government, according to intelligence obtained by the U.S. last month.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

David French / National Review:

The Alt-Right's Chickens Come Home to Roost — It is not the responsibility of the president of the United States to make specific statements every time a gang of KKK cretins marches up and down a town square. I fear that we'll never be rid of such people, and in normal times our political leaders …

Discussion: Outside the Beltway

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: Simple Justice and JustOneMinute