Page 57 - MIN VOS
P. 57
Tuesday
August 15, 2017
T: 582-7800 | F: 582-7044
www.arubatoday.com Sarah-Quita Soars
Page 14
Aruba’s ONLY English newspaper ruba’s ONLY English newspaper
A
“Racism
Is Evil”
President Donald Trump speaks about the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in
Washington.
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Bowing to Pressure, Trump Denounces Hate Groups by Name
By JONATHAN LEMIRE ing “racism is evil” after Trump branded members said. Republicans as well as
Associated Press two days of public equivo- of the KKK, neo-Nazis and In his initial remarks on the Democrats, who urged him
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bow- cation and internal White white supremacists who violence Saturday, Trump to seize the moral author-
ing to pressure from right House debate over the take part in violence as did not single out the groups ity of his office to condemn
and left, President Donald deadly race-fueled clashes “criminals and thugs.” and instead bemoaned hate groups.
Trump condemned white in Charlottesville, Virginia. The groups are “repugnant violence on “many sides.”
supremacist groups by In a hastily arranged state- to everything that we hold Those remarks prompted Continued on Page 3
name on Monday, declar- ment at the White House, dear as Americans,” he stern criticism from fellow
