Article snippet: Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories WASHINGTON — President Trump faced a bipartisan wave of criticism Sunday for his failure to explicitly condemn the white supremacists whose demonstration ignited a weekend of violence in Charlottesville, Va., leading to multiple deaths and injuries. The White House has released several statements on the bloody protests, but even Trump’s most ardent supporters have interpreted the response as muted and ambiguous. Few of the White House’s top policy makers have personally denounced the white nationalists at the center of the violence, leading to more accusations that Trump’s political currency rests on racial resentment. On Sunday’s political talk shows, congressional Republicans and even some Trump loyalists were particularly enraged that the president did not acknowledge that the vast amount of the violence in Charlottesville was carried out by supremacists — including many who acted in Trump’s name. Trump “should use this opportunity today to say this is terrorism, this is domestic terrorism, this is white nationalism and it has to stop,” said Senator Cory Gardner, a Republican from Colorado. “This is not a time for vagaries,” Gardner said on CNN. “This isn’t a time for innuendo or to allow room to be read between the lines. This is a time to lay blame — to lay blame on bigotry, to lay blame on white supremacists, on white nationalism... Link to the full article to read more
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