Trump again blames ‘both sides’ for Virginia violence
By Reuters
16 August 2017 |
11:07 am
U.S. President Donald Trump insisted on Tuesday that not all of the facts were known yet about the aftermath of a white supremacist rally in Virginia that turned violent at the weekend and that both left- and right-wing groups used force.
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