President Donald Trump on Tuesday adamantly defended his response to the deadly white nationalist rally in Virginia in a chaotic press conference.
Bickering with reporters, some of whom he called “fake news,” Trump defended the protest that led to the violence and said some of the individuals carrying torches at the white nationalist rally did not have bad intentions.
“You had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists and the press has treated them absolutely unfairly,” Trump said, repeatedly stressing that the rally started over the potential removal of a statute of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Asking the rhetorical question of whether Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson owned slaves, he asked, “Are we going to take down Thomas Jefferson’s statue?”
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