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In reply to the discussion: Charles Manson Dead At 83 [View all]mahatmakanejeeves
(70,313 posts)53. Trump in 5 ... 4 ... 3 ...: "I do think there is blame yes, I think there is blame on both sides."
Full text: Trumps comments on white supremacists, alt-left in Charlottesville
By POLITICO STAFF 08/15/2017 04:48 PM EDT Updated 08/15/2017 06:16 PM EDT
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TRUMP: I am not putting anybody on a moral plane, what Im saying is this: you had a group on one side and a group on the other, and they came at each other with clubs and it was vicious and horrible and it was a horrible thing to watch, but there is another side. There was a group on this side, you can call them the left. Youve just called them the left, that came violently attacking the other group. So you can say what you want, but that's the way it is.
REPORTER: You said there was hatred and violence on both sides?
TRUMP: I do think there is blame yes, I think there is blame on both sides. You look at, you look at both sides. I think theres blame on both sides, and I have no doubt about it, and you don't have any doubt about it either. And, and, and, and if you reported it accurately, you would say.
By POLITICO STAFF 08/15/2017 04:48 PM EDT Updated 08/15/2017 06:16 PM EDT
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TRUMP: I am not putting anybody on a moral plane, what Im saying is this: you had a group on one side and a group on the other, and they came at each other with clubs and it was vicious and horrible and it was a horrible thing to watch, but there is another side. There was a group on this side, you can call them the left. Youve just called them the left, that came violently attacking the other group. So you can say what you want, but that's the way it is.
REPORTER: You said there was hatred and violence on both sides?
TRUMP: I do think there is blame yes, I think there is blame on both sides. You look at, you look at both sides. I think theres blame on both sides, and I have no doubt about it, and you don't have any doubt about it either. And, and, and, and if you reported it accurately, you would say.
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Well, not so much in the dark...he was a pop celebrity for some borderline personality-types
psychopomp
Nov 2017
#58
"I call on Americans to join me in starting a race war to honor Charlie's memory"
dalton99a
Nov 2017
#33
Manson was evil, but he wasn't as bad as that other Californian thug Nixon
Julian Englis
Nov 2017
#44
Trump in 5 ... 4 ... 3 ...: "I do think there is blame yes, I think there is blame on both sides."
mahatmakanejeeves
Nov 2017
#53
I remember the whole Manson episode. California was in a huge panic at the time.
leftyladyfrommo
Nov 2017
#55