Trump Defends His ‘Both Sides’ Charlottesville Remarks: I Answered ‘Perfectly’

DOUBLING DOWN

“I was talking about people who went because they felt very strongly about the statue of Robert E. Lee.”

Senior National Reporter

Published Apr. 26 2019 10:52AM EDT

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In a White House press gaggle Friday morning on the way to the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting, President Donald Trump doubled down on his 2017 defense of the “very fine people on both sides” at the Charlottesville white-supremacist rally.

Pilar Melendez

Senior National Reporter

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Trump Defends His ‘Both Sides’ Charlottesville Remarks: I Answered ‘Perfectly’

“I was talking about people who went because they felt very strongly about the statue of Robert E. Lee.”

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