Political Quotes

“I also ask unanimous consent to include in the Record an article from The Atlantic titled: ``Trump Defends White-Nationalist Protesters: `Some Very Fine People on Both Sides.' '' The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentlewoman from New Mexico? There was no objection. [From the Atlantic, Aug. 15, 2017] Trump Defends White-Nationalist Protesters: `Some Very Fine People on Both Sides' (By Rosie Gray) President Trump defended the white nationalists who protested in Charlottesville on Tuesday, saying they included ``some very fine people,'' while expressing sympathy for their demonstration against the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. It was a strikingly different message from the prepared statement he had delivered on Monday, and a reversion to his initial response over the weekend. Speaking in the lobby of Trump Tower at what had been billed as a statement on infrastructure, a combative Trump defended his slowness to condemn white nationalists and neo- Nazis after the melee in central Virginia, which ended in the death of one woman and injuries to dozens of others, and compared the tearing down of Confederate monuments to the hypothetical removal of monuments to the Founding Fathers. He also said that counterprotesters deserve an equal amount of blame for the violence. ``What about the alt-left that came charging at, as you say, at the alt-right?'' Trump said.…”