Can “very fine people” march with neo-Nazis? Three days gone, and Trump has not even reached out to Charlottesville victim’s family.

US President Donald Trump has failed miserably.

By doubling down and creating equivalence between the white supremacist neo-Nazi marchers and the counter demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia, Trump is revealing one of two possibilities: he is either afraid to offend his political base by condemning the repugnant rabble that gathered in Charlottesville – ostensibly to protest the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee but in actuality to denigrate Jews, blacks and other minorities – or a much more appalling possibility, he really doesn’t understand that there is a difference between people who think like Nazis and people who try to stop them from spewing their hate.

Blame, he said at Trump Tower in New York on Tuesday night flanked by Jewish administration officials, Director of the National Economic Council Gary Cohn and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, belonged on both sides.

“You had a group on one side that was bad, and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent,” Trump said, referring to right- and left-wing protesters.

“Not all of those people were neo-Nazis, believe me. Not all of those people were white supremacists by any stretch,” Trump said of the participants in the deadly protest. “There was a group on this side. You can call them the left … that came violently attacking the other group.”

Trump also added of the neo-Nazis and white supremacists: “You also had people that were very fine people on both sides.”

http://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Commentary-The-very-fine-people-in-Charlottesville-502575