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Reuters: White House braces for fallout from Trump remarks on Virginia violence

Published Aug. 16, 2017 at 10:37 am

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA - AUGUST 12: People gather near a makeshift candlelight vigil for those who died and were injured when a car plowed into a crowd of anti-fascist counter-demonstrators marching near a downtown shopping area August 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. The car allegedly plowed through a crowd, and at least one person has died from the incident, following the shutdown of the 'Unite the Right' rally by police after white nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the 'alt-right' and counter-protesters clashed near Lee Park, where a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is slated to be removed. Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP

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President Donald Trump no doubt pleased part of his political base on August 15 by passionately arguing that both right- and left-wing extremists were responsible for violence at a white supremacist rally in Virginia on August 12.

But his remarks, one day after he, under pressure, explicitly condemned neo Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan, left White House officials bracing for fallout from disappointed Republicans whose support he needs to govern in the coming months and years.