ALEXANDRIA, Va. ― Richard Spencer, the 39-year-old white nationalist leader, said Monday that he did not take President Donald Trump’s statement denouncing hate groups seriously, and two of Spencer’s associates shared a somewhat similar sentiment with HuffPost. “The statement today was more Kumbaya nonsense,” Spencer said, speaking to reporters in his office and part-time home in Alexandria, Virginia. He initially tried to host the press event at two hotels in Washington, D.C., but they both canceled his reservation, according to Spencer. Reporters were instead instructed to go to a street corner in Old Town Alexandria. A man who worked with Spencer and who gave a pseudonym, Reinhard, beckoned reporters upstairs to a makeshift office.

Source: Huffington Post August 15, 2017 01:19 UTC