They were studies in incongruity, coming from different directions to the same conclusion: that President Trump had made himself the opposite of presidential Aug. 15 in his emphatic insistence that blame for the inflamed atmosphere and the violence that left one woman dead and 30 people injured on the streets of Charlottesville, Va. three days earlier did not rest solely with neo-Nazis and other white-supremacist groups.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka resigned from the President’s Manufacturing Council not long after the press conference during which Mr. Trump essentially repudiated his own remarks of a day earlier in which he said, “Racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white-supremacist groups and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.”
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