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Specifically, they are responding to Trump’s latest “both sides do it” false equivalency:
“I think there’s blame on both sides,” Trump told reporters Tuesday at Trump Tower.
Ryan, other Republicans outraged by Trump news conference
by AUSTIN WRIGHT, politico.com — 08/15/2017
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“We must be clear,” Ryan said after Trump’s remarks. “White supremacy is repulsive. This bigotry is counter to all this country stands for. There can be no moral ambiguity.”[...]
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), now in rehabilitation after being shot during a June congressional baseball practice, responded on Twitter: “I was clear about this bigotry & violence over the weekend and I'll repeat it today: We must defeat white supremacy and all forms of hatred.”
Also on Twitter, Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.) said: “@POTUS must stop the moral equivalency! AGAIN, white supremacists were to blame for the violence in #Charlottesville.”
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It’s good to see the bipartisan outrage.
But I wonder if their disgust will ever turn to introspection?
— Introspection for their own personal roles in supporting Trump, and working hard to put this shallow racist, predatory man, into the highest Office of the land?
A man who clearly does not know what it means to be an American. A man who does NOT know History, and Patriotism, and Tradition, and so many other American things.
How long will it be before their own shallow consciences, convince them to stop excusing Trump and turning a blind eye —and to start instead, to use their Congressional powers of “checks and balances”, to remove this “electoral mistake” as quick a humanly possible?
If the victim of horrible violence Steve Scalise, can speak out against the man — so should the rest of the GOP, BEFORE this Supremacists-enabling moves on to the “next level”—whateverthat may be.
Obviously their Nationalist Hatred has reached the boiling point. And Trump just keeps “turning up the Heat” ...