POLITICAL FIGURES/RACISM: “Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday [8-16-17] ‘there are no good neo-Nazis’ — a day after President Donald Trump said there ‘were very fine people on both sides’ of the violent white supremacist rally this weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia.
McConnell’s office on Tuesday said the Kentucky Republican had no new response to Trump’s news conference, even as many other congressional Republicans issued statements of condemnation. McConnell’s wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, was standing behind Trump during the news conference, which was supposed to focus on infrastructure.
‘We can have no tolerance for an ideology of racial hatred,’ McConnell said in a statement Wednesday. ‘There are no good neo-Nazis, and those who espouse their views are not supporters of American ideals and freedoms. We all have a responsibility to stand against hate and violence, wherever it raises its evil head.’
McConnell also noted that the organizers of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville were now organizing an event in Lexington, Kentucky, and said their ‘messages of hate and bigotry are not welcome in Kentucky and should not be welcome anywhere in America.’ “
-Austin Wright, “McConnell: ‘There are no good neo-Nazis’,” Politico, Aug. 16, 2017 11:03am