{"id":2229,"date":"2017-08-13T02:46:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T00:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/08\/13\/charlottesville-trump-under-fire-after-failing-to-denounce-white-supremacists\/"},"modified":"2017-08-13T02:46:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T00:46:01","slug":"charlottesville-trump-under-fire-after-failing-to-denounce-white-supremacists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=2229","title":{"rendered":"Charlottesville: Trump under fire after failing to denounce white supremacists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President laments \u2018hatred, bigotry and violence from many sides\u2019 but senior Republicans and Democrats demand condemnation of far-right extremistsDonald Trump has faced bipartisan criticism after failing to explicitly condemn the role of white supremacists in clashes with counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, that culminated in a car running into a crowd, killing at least one person.The president said he condemned \u201chatred, bigotry and violence on many sides\u201d on Saturday. He then repeated the phrase \u201con many sides\u201d for emphasis. A White House spokesperson later amplified the president\u2019s remarks, telling the Guardian: \u201cThe president was condemning hatred, bigotry and violence from all sources and all sides. There was violence between protesters and counter-protesters today.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/aug\/12\/charlottesville-protest-trump-condemns-violence-many-sides\" target=\"_blank\">Charlottesville: Trump under fire after failing to denounce white supremacists<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President laments \u2018hatred, bigotry and violence from many sides\u2019 but senior Republicans and Democrats demand condemnation of far-right extremistsDonald Trump has faced bipartisan criticism after failing to explicitly condemn the role of white supremacists in clashes with counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, that culminated in a car running into a crowd, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}