Article snippet: (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump on Friday defended his controversial 2017 comments about a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, saying his remarks were perfect when he said both sides were to blame for the violence that left one person dead. “If you look at what I said you will see that question was answered perfectly,” Trump said Friday as he left the White House for an event in Indianapolis. Trump’s remarks came a day after former Vice President Joe Biden highlighted the president’s reaction to Charlottesville in a video announcing he’s running for president. Biden argued in the video that Trump’s presidency was “an aberrant moment in time” and that his comments “assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it.” Trump drew widespread bipartisan criticism -- including from senior members of his own staff -- for his reaction to the 2017 march by self-identified white supremacist groups in Charlottesville. Organizers said the goal of the event was to unify the nation’s white nationalist movement and protest the removal of a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee in a city park. Trump on Friday also praised Lee: “I was talking about people who went because they felt very strongly about the monument to Robert E. Lee, a great general. Whether you like it or not, he was one of the great generals. I’ve spoken to many generals here, right at the White House, and many people thought -- o... Link to the full article to read more