Former KKK leader David Duke praised President Donald Trump on Tuesday for essentially revoking his tardy condemnation of white supremacist groups involved in a violent rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. A day after Trump’s rebuke of white supremacist groups prompted a Duke meltdown, Trump held a news conference to say that white nationalists weren’t entirely to blame for Saturday’s violence, and that counter-protesters, which Trump labeled the “alt-left,” bore responsibility as well. There is “blame on both sides,” Trump said, echoing his initial statement on Saturday that was roundly criticized. Duke took cheer from the president’s latest comments.

Source: Huffington Post August 15, 2017 22:01 UTC