White House Acts to Stem Fallout From Trump’s First Charlottesville Remarks<br />Mr. Bossert praised the statement the president made on Saturday — which denounced the “egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides” — saying<br />that Mr. Trump had appropriately criticized an event that “turned into an unacceptable level of violence at all levels.”<br />“This isn’t about President Trump — this is about a level of violence and hatred<br />that could not be tolerated in this country,” Mr. Bossert told CNN’s Jake Tapper.<br />This racial intolerance and racial bigotry cannot be condoned.”<br />Mr. Tapper responded by citing a white nationalist website<br />that described Mr. Trump’s remarks as “really, really good.” He then asked Mr. Bossert: “Are you at least willing to concede that the president was not clear enough in condemning white supremacy?”<br />Mr. Bossert replied that Mr. Trump “didn’t dignify the names of these groups of people, but rather addressed the fundamental issue.”<br />Mr. Trump consulted a broad range of advisers before speaking on Saturday, most<br />of whom told him to sharply criticize the white nationalist protesters.<br />— The White House, under siege over President Trump’s equivocal response to this weekend’s bloody white nationalist rallies<br />in Charlottesville, Va., on Sunday condemned “white supremacists” for inciting the violence that led to one death.<br />The statement was sent “in response” to questions about Mr. Trump’s widely criticized remarks, in which he blamed the unrest “on many sides” while<br />speaking on Saturday before an event for military veterans at his golf resort in Bedminster, N. J., where the president is on vacation.
