Trump Condemns Violence in Charlottesville, Saying ‘Racism Is Evil’
“The president should make sure that no one on his staff has ties to white supremacists,” Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive officer of the
Anti-Defamation League, said in a telephone briefing on Monday afternoon, adding, “nor should they be on the payroll of the American people.”
He said that the Department of Justice and the Office of Government Ethics should “do an investigation and make
that determination” if anyone in the White House had ties to hate groups.
He’s a great American patriot and I hate to see what has happened to him.”
Merck’s chief executive, Kenneth C. Frazier, resigned from the president’s American Manufacturing Council, saying
he objected to the president’s statement on Saturday blaming violence that left one woman dead on “many sides.”
“America’s leaders must honor our fundamental views by clearly rejecting expressions of hatred, bigotry and group supremacy, which run counter to the American ideal
that all people are created equal,” Mr. Frazier said in a tweet announcing he was stepping down from the panel.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump bowed on Monday to overwhelming pressure
that he personally condemn white supremacists who incited bloody demonstrations in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend, labeling their racists views “evil” after two days of equivocal statements.