For days, Trump was criticized for not specifically calling out white supremacists for the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend. Instead, he blamed “many sides” for the incidents that killed a 32-year-woman and injured 35 others. On Monday, Trump finally issued a stronger statement, one that denounced “the KKK, Neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups.” However, he did not tweet a reproach of these extremists ― an odd move for a president who tweets every thought that comes into his head. Critics saw the retweet on Monday evening as an attempt to deflect attention from his belated response to white supremacist violence, but also as an implicit effort to draw attention to crime within the African-American community:

Source: Huffington Post August 15, 2017 06:45 UTC