Trump Condemns Violence in Charlottesville, Saying ‘Racism Is Evil’<br />“The president should make sure that no one on his staff has ties to white supremacists,” Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive officer of the<br />Anti-Defamation League, said in a telephone briefing on Monday afternoon, adding, “nor should they be on the payroll of the American people.”<br />He said that the Department of Justice and the Office of Government Ethics should “do an investigation and make<br />that determination” if anyone in the White House had ties to hate groups.<br />He’s a great American patriot and I hate to see what has happened to him.”<br />Merck’s chief executive, Kenneth C. Frazier, resigned from the president’s American Manufacturing Council, saying<br />he objected to the president’s statement on Saturday blaming violence that left one woman dead on “many sides.”<br />“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<br />that all people are created equal,” Mr. Frazier said in a tweet announcing he was stepping down from the panel.<br />WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump bowed on Monday to overwhelming pressure<br />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.
