memeorandum: Police Stood By As Mayhem Mounted in Charlottesville (ProPublica)

12:35 AM ET, August 14, 2017

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White House Acts to Stem Fallout From Trump's First Charlottesville Remarks — BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — The White House, under siege over President Trump's equivocal response to this weekend's bloody white nationalist rallies in Charlottesville, Va., on Sunday condemned “white supremacists” for inciting the violence that led to one death.

ProPublica:

Police Stood By As Mayhem Mounted in Charlottesville — State police and National Guardsmen watched passively for hours as self-proclaimed Nazis engaged in street battles with counter-protesters. ProPublica reporter A.C. Thompson was on the scene and reports that the authorities turned …

Discussion: Washington Post, Business Insider, The Guardian and The Daily Caller

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 and Mediaite

Jeff Greenfield / Politico:

Why Trump Can't Say the Obvious — It's long past Passover, but the latest effusions from Donald Trump bring to mind the question that begins that ritual: “Why is this president different from all other presidents?” — Would any past president have not understood the need to read …

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog

Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:

McAuliffe Counters Critics of Police Response to Charlottesville Violence — CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Sunday strongly defended the police response to the violent demonstrations here on Saturday, saying that law enforcement authorities had done “great work” in “a very delicate situation.”

Discussion: Althouse, The Daily Caller and Business Insider

Andrew Anglin / Daily Stormer:

C H A R L O T T E S V I L L E — It is Sunday and the event is over. However, I'm going to leave this page up at the top for half the day. People are interested to see what went down. — You can also check this forum thread for attendees only for updates from people at the event (and post in it if you're there).

Discussion: HuffPost, Shareblue, The Atlantic, CBS Boston, Washington Post, Balloon Juice, mccain.senate.gov, Gizmodo, IJR, Business Insider, Al Jazeera English, GotNews, ABC News, Politicus USA, The Hill and RedState

WCPO:
Charlottesville car attack suspect James Fields Jr. was ‘infatuated’ with Nazis, ex-teacher says

Discussion: CNN, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, The Guardian, Associated Press, The Daily Signal and dailycallernewsfoundation.org

Washington Post:
Alleged driver of car that plowed into Charlottesville crowd was a Nazi sympathizer, former teacher says

Discussion: Daily Progress, ABC News, Associated Press, Conservative News Today, RedState, Media Matters for America, Politicus USA, Talking Points Memo, The Hill, New York Daily News, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, twitchy.com, The Atlantic, Mediaite, Little Green Footballs, KQED News, CBS News and IJR

Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
One group loved Trump's remarks about Charlottesville: White supremacists

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, FiveThirtyEight, Vox, Telegraph, Affinity Magazine, TheBlaze and Weekly Standard

Claudia Koerner / BuzzFeed:
Here's What We Know About The Man Accused Of Killing A Woman At A White Supremacist Rally

Discussion: The Federalist, Business Insider, The Atlantic, The Other McCain and Fox News

gofundme.com:
I Was Beaten By White Supremacists

Discussion: The Root and The FADER

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

Discussion: ThinkProgress

Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Donald Trump's incredibly unpresidential statement on Charlottesville

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

Discussion: Affinity Magazine, CBS Miami, Little Green Footballs, KQED News, AOL, Axios, NPR.org, CNN, FOX6Now.com, Toledo Blade, RedState and Washington Post, more at Mediagazer »

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

Discussion: Raw Story, The Hill, BuzzFeed and The Week

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

Discussion: Politico, israpundit.org, Washington Post, Sputnik International, New York Magazine, Talking Points Memo, RedState, AOL, twitchy.com, The Week, ABC News, The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite and New York Times

Robert King / Washington Examiner:
Mike Huckabee: If Trump ‘shot’ Charlottesville crash driver ‘between the eyes,’ he'd still be criticized

Discussion: The Hill

Washington Post: Syria's Assad has become an unexpected icon of the far right in America

Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
White supremacists cheer Trump's response to Charlottesville violence

Discussion: CBS News, ABC News, Power Line, Raw Story, CBS Miami, IJR, Hullabaloo, Conservative News Today, Shareblue, New York Post and Damian J. Penny

Jonathan Swan / Axios:

Anti-McMaster campaign is about to get uglier — The bare-knuckle campaign to remove National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster from the White House is about to get much uglier. — Outside forces opposed to McMaster are going to allege he has a drinking problem, according to sources outside …

Discussion: RedState, The Daily Caller, Politico, ABC News and Mediaite

CNN:

Trump advisers signal the knives are out for Bannon — Bridgewater, New Jersey (CNN)Two senior Trump advisers — one inside the White House and another who recently departed — signaled Sunday that the knives are out for Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump's controversial chief strategist.

Discussion: Political Wire

Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller:

EXCLUSIVE: Former Trump Adviser Says He Will ‘Blow’ McMaster, Drudge ‘The F**k Out’ If Bannon Is Ousted — Sam Nunberg, a former political adviser to Donald Trump, warned Sunday of dire consequences for National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and Matt Drudge if White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is pushed out of the West Wing.

Discussion: Power Line, RedState, AOL, Business Insider, Axios, Politico, ABC News, Washington Free Beacon and TheBlaze

ABC News:
Analysis: Why won't Donald Trump condemn white nationalism?

Discussion: Associated Press and Politico

David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
Scaramucci: Elements Within Washington and White House Are Trying to ‘Eject’ Trump

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The Gateway Pundit

CNN:

Father: Heather Heyer was a champion for others — (CNN)Mark Heyer said he didn't always agree with his daughter's viewpoints. — But he always admired that she stood up for what she believed in. — “She died trying to bring about that purpose,” he told CNN on Sunday …

Discussion: FOX6Now.com and The Week

Andy Campbell / HuffPost:
Mother Of Charlottesville Victim Heather Heyer: 'I'm Proud Of What She Did'

Discussion: The Week, The Gateway Pundit, Common Dreams, Media Matters for America and The Stranger …

Nicole Hensley / New York Daily News:
Paralegal killed during protest of Charlottesville white supremacist rally: ‘She died doing what was right’

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Southern Poverty Law Center, Mashable, The Root, WTVR-TV, New York's PIX11, Common Dreams, Hit & Run, The Guardian and alicublog

Christina Caron / New York Times:
Heather Heyer, Charlottesville Victim, Is Recalled as ‘a Strong Woman’

Discussion: The Guardian and Common Dreams

Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:

The Alt-Right's Rebranding Effort Has Failed — The alt-right movement has sought over the past two years to rebrand white nationalism, lifting it out of the obscure corners of the website Stormfront and elevating it into the mainstream political discussion. — In some ways the effort succeeded.

Discussion: Daily Kos

David Frum / The Atlantic:
Time for Republicans to Leap From the Boat

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Jacey Fortin / New York Times:
The Statue at the Center of Charlottesville's Storm

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Guardian and Power Line

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, Gizmodo, The Root and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Rod Dreher / The American Conservative:

The Curse Of Identity Politics — Charlottesville is the kind of America that identity politics is calling into being. It's time for straight talk about that. — On the Right, the story is fairly straightforward. Neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and their ilk have to be condemned in no uncertain terms, and marginalized.

Discussion: Instapundit

Jacob B. / twitchy.com:

SHAMEFUL: Markos Moulitsas spreads ‘dangerous lie’ about ‘NRA and American conservatives’ — Daily Kos founder and Vox co-founder Markos Moulitsas wasted no time in using the tragedy in Charlottesville, Va. to propagate a disgusting smear about conservatives and the NRA.

Discussion: IJR and Instapundit