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During a combative exchange with reporters, the president yesterday revived his declaration about the deadly violence at a white supremacist rally over the weekend in Charlottesville. From the alt-right to Putin and the Clintons, President…
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Under mounting pressure to set a clear moral tone for the nation, the president instead lashed out defensively, making clear he believes that the participants in a white nationalist and supremacist rally in Charlottesville were taking part…
From declining to name who was in the wrong on Saturday to a muted denouncement Monday of neo-Nazis and white supremacists and back to his original comments, Trump reminded everyone: He doesn’t like to be told what to say. And he is…
The purpose was to tout his meetings earlier Tuesday on infrastructure at Trump Tower, but reporters used the time question his initial reluctance to condemn the Ku Klux Klan and Neo Nazis until Monday.
The president argued that he initially blamed both sides because he wasn’t aware of the full facts. But then he defended the aims of the original protest and compared George Washington to Robert E. Lee in the process.
President Trump asked if statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson should be removed since they owned slaves while speaking in New York on Aug. 15. With reporters about violence in Charlottesville, Va.
Most of those memorials are in states that were on the border with the Confederacy — and that allowed slave ownership, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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President Trump's war with CNN went off the rails Tuesday morning after he retweeted an image of a Trump train running over a CNN reporter, then quickly deleted it after the meme sparked criticism as inappropriate just days after the…
The president, speaking from the White House, condemned the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis by name and vowed to hold the perpetrators of violence at a weekend white supremacist rally in Charlottesville fully accountable. But some rivals said…
Trump's statement came amid outrage from Democrats and some Republicans that he had not forcefully condemned racism and white-supremacist groups after the violence at a march in Charlottesville.
The president’s administration spent much of Sunday trying to defend him from a torrent of criticism, including from many Republicans, who said Trump had bypassed an opportunity Saturday to provide moral leadership and to distance himself…
Ousted White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said he “wouldn't have recommended” the statement that Trump made about the Charlottesville unrest.
The clarification stopped far short of what a growing number of Republicans have urged the president to do: directly call out and condemn white supremacy.
BEDMINSTER, N.J. — President Trump on Saturday condemned “in the strongest possible terms” the spate of violence unfolding in Charlottesville and called for “a swift restoration of law and order” — but avoided placing blame on any…
President Trump broke his silence Saturday afternoon amid violent confrontations between white nationalist groups and counterprotesters in Charlottesville, tweeting that there was “no place for this kind of violence in America.” “We ALL…
Democrats see evidence in polls and focus groups of an electorate receptive to moving in their direction. But other factors could frustrate the party, including the peculiar ways in which President Trump confounds some traditional measures…
BEDMINSTER, N.J. — President Trump made fresh threats of force Friday against North Korea, writing on Twitter that the U.S. military is “locked and loaded” and later telling reporters that the isolated country would “truly regret it” if it…
“Federal drug prosecutions have gone down in recent years. We’re going to be bringing them up and bringing them up rapidly. At the end of 2016, there were 23 percent fewer than in 2011. So they looked at this scourge and they let it go by,…
After a week of seclusion at his Bedminster golf club, the president weighed in on a far-reaching array of topics with neither his new chief of staff nor his press secretary able to control what he might say next.
In this moment of heated rhetoric, planners in and out of government are examining decades of research and projections, playing out war games, and estimating death tolls. The paths forward for President Trump fall into four main categories…