

He blamed both sides for the violence ( “What about the alt-left that came charging?”). Trump responded to the fracas, after a significant pause, with an equivocating message.

Then there was a second explosion, this one on the internet, when President Donald J.

Two sets of protesters met and clashed: a battalion of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klanners and a crowd of counterprotesters, some with Black Lives Matter placards. 12, when a protest over the planned removal from a city park of a statue of the Southern Civil War general Robert E. They were all in evidence in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug.
