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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.
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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 …
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No More Mister Nice Blog


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 …
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Washington Post, Business Insider and The Guardian


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).


Alleged driver of car that plowed into Charlottesville crowd was a Nazi sympathizer, former teacher says … CHARLOTTESVILLE — A man accused of plowing a car into a crowd of protesters here — killing one person and leaving 19 injured — long sympathized with Nazi views and had stood …
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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.
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Mother Of Charlottesville Victim Heather Heyer: 'I'm Proud Of What She Did' — “I want her death to be a rallying cry for justice,” Susan Bro told HuffPost. — RUCKERSVILLE, Va. Susan Bro sat in her darkened home on Sunday, tearing up as she smiled. — She was thinking fondly of her daughter …
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Here's What We Know About The Man Accused Of Killing A Woman At A White Supremacist Rally
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The Federalist, Business Insider, The Atlantic, The Other McCain and Fox News

Charlottesville car attack suspect James Fields Jr. was ‘infatuated’ with Nazis, ex-teacher says
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McAuliffe Counters Critics of Police Response to Charlottesville Violence
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Donald Trump's incredibly unpresidential statement on Charlottesville
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One group loved Trump's remarks about Charlottesville: White supremacists
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What We Know About James Alex Fields, Driver Charged in Charlottesville Killing
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Charlottesville mayor: There is a ‘direct line’ between Trump campaign and white supremacist rally

Mike Huckabee: If Trump ‘shot’ Charlottesville crash driver ‘between the eyes,’ he'd still be criticized
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The Hill

Heather Heyer, Charlottesville Victim, Is Recalled as ‘a Strong Woman’
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The Guardian

White supremacists cheer Trump's response to Charlottesville violence
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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 …
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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.
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Political Wire


He's One of Them — As we get underway today, a few thoughts on yesterday.
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ThinkProgress

Analysis: Why won't Donald Trump condemn white nationalism?
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Associated Press and Politico

Scaramucci: Elements Within Washington and White House Are Trying to ‘Eject’ Trump
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The Gateway Pundit

Scaramucci criticizes Trump's reaction to Charlottesville violence
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Axios, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller, ThinkProgress and The Week

Scaramucci criticizes Trump's Charlottesville response and blames Bannon
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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.
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Raw Story, Gizmodo, The Root and Lawyers, Guns & Money


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.
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Daily Kos
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Time for Republicans to Leap From the Boat — President Trump made two big political decisions over past half-week, and both are already proving disasters. — The first decision was to cut himself loose from the Republican leadership in Congress. Trump blasted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell …
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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.
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ThinkProgress and Mediaite


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.
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Instapundit

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.
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IJR and Instapundit