ATTORNEY GENERAL/CRIME/JEFF SESSIONS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday [8-14-17] morning he expects President Donald Trump to explicitly condemn white supremacists, in the wake of deadly violence at a weekend rally in Virginia and growing pressure on Mr. Trump to break decisively with nationalist groups that backed his campaign and presidency.
‘He will say what he believes is appropriate, I think he probably will,’ Mr. Sessions said in an interview on ABC’s Good Morning America, when asked if he believed Mr. Trump would condemn the groups by name…
A Saturday rally in Charlottesville initially planned in protest of the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee erupted in violence, and a woman was killed when a driver allegedly mowed down a group that had gathered to counter messages from the white nationalists, some of whom were self-described Nazi sympathizers. Dozens were injured in the car attack. Later, two state troopers monitoring the demonstrations were killed when their helicopter crashed.
The president initially said the Saturday altercations came from ‘many sides’ of the event, which leaders from both political parties said seemed to improperly spread blame equally between the white nationalists and the counterprotesters.
Then on Sunday the White House issued a statement saying Mr. Trump ‘condemns all forms of violence, bigotry and hatred and of course that includes white supremacists, KKK, neo-Nazi and all extremist groups.’ “
-Aruna Viswanatha, “Sessions Expects Trump to Denounce White Supremacists,” The Wall Street Journal online, Aug. 14, 2017 08:46am