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Trump under fire for failing to condemn white supremacy

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Newstalk ZB Staff,
Publish Date
Mon, 14 Aug 2017, 7:51AM
US President Donald Trump. Photo / AP.

Trump under fire for failing to condemn white supremacy

Author
Newstalk ZB Staff,
Publish Date
Mon, 14 Aug 2017, 7:51AM

US President Donald Trump is under fire for his limp response to the Charlottesville racial attack.

Politicians across the board are criticising the President for failing to outright condemn what his own security advisor is calling an act of domestic terrorism.

One woman's dead and dozens more are injured, after a car ploughed into a group of counter protestors at a white nationalist rally.

USA Today Washington correspondent Paul Singer told Rachel Smalley Mr Trump's failure to denounce white supremacy has left many people stumped.

"It should not be hard in America in 2017 to say neo-Nazis are bad. Almost everybody in the Republican party has been at pains to distance themselves as fast as they can."

A 20-year-old white nationalist has been arrested in relation to the attack.

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