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16 Aug 2017

Trump’s Charlottesville comments widely condemned

“They tried to kill my child to shut her up. Well guess what, you just magnified her” – the mother of Heather Heyer, the woman killed during the Charlottesville protest against white supremacists speaking at her memorial service today. By contrast, Donald Trump has faced near universal condemnation over his attempt to draw a moral equivalence between neo- Nazis and the counter-protesters who challenged them.