WASHINGTON ― More than 48 hours after white supremacist groups sparked deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, President Donald Trump denounced them under public pressure to do so. “We condemn in the strongest possible terms this display of hatred, bigotry and violence,” Trump said in an impromptu statement on Monday after returning to the White House from his golf club in New Jersey. Trump had come under widespread criticism for not immediately denouncing the far-right groups, instead blaming “many sides” for Saturday’s mayhem. One tweet took aim at a CEO who stepped down from a White House manufacturing panel, protesting Trump’s initial response to the Charlottesville violence. According to CNN’s Jeff Zeleny, a White House aide said Trump “insisted” on making positive remarks about the economy at the beginning of his Monday statement.

Source: Huffington Post August 14, 2017 16:50 UTC