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New York Times:
Trump Gives White Supremacists an Unequivocal Boost — WASHINGTON — President Trump buoyed the white nationalist movement on Tuesday as no president has done in generations — equating activists protesting racism with the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who rampaged in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend.
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
‘The President Was Entirely Correct’ — Every day, the White House communications office sends official talking points to Republican members of Congress. These communiqués help the GOP stay on the same page (and, in the Trump era, help the embattled president's allies come up with arguments in his defense).
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The Definitive Source:
How to describe extremists who rallied in Charlottesville — The events in Charlottesville are an opportunity to take another look at our terminology around “alt-right” and the way that we describe the various racist, neo-Nazi, white nationalist and white supremacist groups out there.
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ITV:
Theresa May attacks Donald Trump over refusal to condemn white supremacists — Theresa May has attacked Donald Trump for refusing to condemn neo-Nazis after violent protests in the US city of Charlottesville in which a woman was killed. — The Prime Minister said those in power …
Politico:
Full text: Trump's comments on white supremacists, ‘alt-left’ in Charlottesville — The following is a transcript of President Donald Trump's remarks at a news conference on infrastructure at Trump Tower on Aug. 15 and the Q&A with the media that followed. — PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Hello, everybody.
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Washington Post:
The nation can only weep — TUESDAY WAS a great day for David Duke …
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Liam Stack / New York Times:
Alt-Right, Alt-Left, Antifa: A Glossary of Extremist Language
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Trump's horrifying ‘take three’ on Charlottesville
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Donald Trump's failure in Charlottesville wasn't political — it was moral
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David French / National Review:
Donald Trump Just Gave the Press Conference of the Alt-Right's Dreams
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Reuters:
Trump yields to pressure, calls neo-Nazis and KKK criminals
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New York Times:
Mr. Trump Makes a Spectacle of Himself
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump has not yet reached out to Charlottesville victim's family
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Why Trump Can't Respond to Charlottesville
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New York Times:
A Combative Trump Criticizes ‘Alt-Left’ Groups in Charlottesville
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Rachel Stoltzfoos / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Hope Hicks To Be Named White House Comms Director — Hope Hicks will be named the new White House communications director, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. — President Trump has offered the job to Hicks and she has accepted the position, according to a White House insider.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
If a top Trump aide leaves, it could ‘start a run on the bank’ — White House aides say Trump lashed out because he felt that the barrage of media criticism for his Saturday remarks was unfair and wrong — that he was fighting back, campaign style. — A veteran of several Republican White Houses told us …
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Steve Bannon's Ideological Allies Inside the White House Are Souring on Him … Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump's besieged chief strategist, came into the White House in late January with a core group of right-wing allies and ideological fellow travelers, including senior policy adviser Stephen Miller …
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Raw Story
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump's Aides Tried to Conceal His Crazy, Racist Beliefs From the Country — Donald Trump's aides have been angry with him frequently — indeed, usually — since the beginning of his presidential campaign. But they have rarely registered their dismay as nakedly as they did Tuesday night …
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New York Times:
Hope Hicks Will Be Trump's Interim Communications Director
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Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Read the White House's Talking Points After Trump's Press Conference
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Russell Goldman / New York Times:
Baltimore Removes Confederate Statues in Overnight Operation — Statues dedicated to Confederate heroes were swiftly removed across Baltimore in the small hours of Wednesday morning, just days after violence broke out over the removal of a similar monument in neighboring Virginia.
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Baltimore Sun:
Confederate monuments taken down in Baltimore overnight — Confederate statues in Baltimore were removed from their bases overnight, as crews using heavy machinery loaded them onto flat bed trucks and hauled them away, an end to more than a year of indecision surrounding what to do with the memorials.
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Governor Roy Cooper:
North Carolina Monuments — Last weekend, I watched with horror as events in Charlottesville unfolded. Having served as North Carolina Attorney General for 16 years, I am all too familiar with the racism, bigotry and full-out white supremacy that exist in corners of our society.
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Greg Bluestein / Political Insider blog:
Abrams calls for removal of Confederate faces off Stone Mountain
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John Harwood / CNBC:
Donald Trump has a very clear attitude about morality: He doesn't believe in it — President Trump, in a raucous press conference, again blamed “both sides” for deadly violence in Charlottesville — He attacked business leaders who quit a White House panel over Trump's message on the weekend incident
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
‘Wow’: Stunned TV Hosts Reacted in Real Time to Trump — “What I just saw gave me the wrong kind of chills,” a visibly stunned Chuck Todd said on MSNBC. “Honestly, I'm a bit shaken by what I just heard.” — Unable to disguise her disgust, the Fox News host Kat Timpf said …
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VICE News' Inside Account Of The Charlottesville Protests Is A Terrifying Must-Watch — Days after the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville spiraled out of control, with a protester driving his car into a crowd of counter-protesters and killing one, we're still picking through what happened.
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Marist Poll:
8/16: Trump at Lowest Point With 35% Job Approval Rating... Crack at the Base — President Donald Trump's job approval rating is at its lowest point since taking office with only 35% of Americans giving him a positive score. — President Donald Trump's job approval rating …
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Political Wire and Washington Times
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Fox News, Daily Caller delete posts encouraging people to drive through protests — Months before a man allegedly turned his vehicle into a weapon and plowed through a group of protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, an article that made the rounds in conservative media encouraged readers to do something similar.
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