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Undated: On August 12, 2017, a car crashed into a crowd of people who had been peacefully protesting the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The 20-year-old driver of the car, James Alex Fields Jr., had previously espoused neo-Nazi and white supremacist beliefs. Fields was charged with hit and run, first-degree murder of 32-year-old Heather Heyer, multiple counts of federal hate crimes for injuring 28 others, and other crimes.
A memorial service and vigils were organized. The mayor of Charlottesville, the Virginia Secretary of Public Safety, the Attorney General and the FBI director called the attack domestic terrorism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottesville_car_attack
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August 11
@aletweetsnews [Alejandro Alvarez]
On Twiter: There is only one side. #charlottesville
August 12
@JoeBiden (former Vice President)
August 12: Events in Charlottesville unacceptable & musnt be tolerated @USNavy forever stands against intolerance & hatred...
@CNORichardson (Chief of Naval Operations)
August 12: "The violence and deaths in Charlottesville strike at the heart of American law and justice. When such actions arise from racial bigotry and hatred, they betray our core values and cannot be tolerated," Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement.
http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-biden-charlottesville-white-supremacy-rally-2017-8
August 12: [Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer]: “Today, in 2017,” ... “we are ... seeing a cowardly parade of hatred, bigotry, racism, and intolerance march” in the hometown “of the architect of our Bill of Rights.”
https://pilotonline.com/news/nation-world/virginia/chanting-blood-and-soil-white-nationalists-with-torches-march-on/article_6bc3b5cd-a5a6-5e23-81ae-694fc1856b4a.html
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August 12: Charlottesville Is the America That Donald Trump Promised
Hate has always existed in America. This president made it fashionable again.
https://www.gq.com/story/charlottesville-is-what-trump-promised
August 12: Republican lawmakers went after President Trump on Saturday over his statement on violent clashes in Charlottesville, Va., with one senator saying Trump should call it a "terror attack by white supremacists."
"Mr. President - we must call evil by its name. These were white supremacists and this was domestic terrorism," Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) tweeted.
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/346339-gop-senator-to-trump-we-must-call-evil-by-its-name
August 13: Donald Trump's incredibly unpresidential statement on Charlottesville
A group of white supremacists -- screaming racial, ethnic and misogynistic epithets -- rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday. One person was killed and 19 others were injured when a car sped into a group of counter-protesters.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/12/politics/trump-charlottesville-statement/index.html
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August 13: Three people are dead and at least 33 injured after a series of violent clashes erupted at a white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday. In the most extreme incident, 20-year-old white nationalist James Alex Fields plowed his car into a group of counterprotestors, killing one person, 32-year-old Heather Heyer, and injuring 19. Fields has been charged with second-degree murder, and the Department of Justice announced a civil rights investigation into the incident.
Two state troopers were also killed when their helicopter, which had been assisting with the police response to the rally, crashed outside the city later in the day.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/state-of-emergency-in-va-after-white-nationalist-rally.html
August 13: The far-right activists who converged on Charlottesville say diversity is just another word for white genocide. Many are Holocaust deniers and blatant antisemites. They argue that white Americans are under attack, and they have been attempting to recruit new members on college campuses across America.
David Duke, the notorious former “imperial wizard” of the KKK, who attended the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally, said it represented a “turning point” for the movement.
“We are determined to take our country back and to fulfil the promises of Donald Trump,” Duke said. “That’s what we believe in and that’s what we’re going to do.”
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/12/politics/trump-fails-to-condemn-the-alt-right-white-supremacists/index.html
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August 13: ... Trump did not condemn the extremist groups who organized Saturday's protest, many of them his political supporters who openly derided racial minorities, Jews and women with signs and chants. David Duke, a one-time leader of the racist Ku Klux Klan in the United States, said the rally about 160 kilometers southwest of Washington was a "turning point" for a movement to "fulfill the promises of Donald Trump."
During his run for the presidency last year, Trump disavowed Duke's support. On Sunday, the White House sought to clarify Trump's failure on Saturday to denounce the white nationalist groups by name, saying that he condemns "all forms of violence, bigotry and hatred" and "of course that includes white supremacists," the racist Ku Klux Klan and "all extremist groups."
Richard Spencer, a leader of the "alt-right" extremist movement in the United States, led hundreds of supporters at the rally in a Nazi salute as they shouted, "Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!"
https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-under-attack-for-failure-to-denounce-white-supremacists/3983794.html
August 13: President Donald Trump, a man known for his bluntness, was anything but on Saturday, failing to name the white supremacists or alt-right groups at the center of violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Instead, the man whose vicious attacks against Hillary Clinton, John McCain, federal judges, fellow Republican leaders and journalists helped define him both in and out of the White House simply blamed “many sides.”
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“Mr. President – we must call evil by its name. These were white supremacists and this was domestic terrorism,” tweeted Sen. Cory Gardner, a Colorado Republican.
Scott Jennings, a former special assistant to President George W. Bush, said Trump’s speech was not his “best effort,” and faulted the President for “failure to acknowledge the racism, failure to acknowledge the white supremacy, failure to acknowledge the people who are marching around with Nazi flags on American soil.”
http://www.femalista.com/donald-trump-fire-failing-denounce-virginia-white-supremacists/
August 13: "Mr. President, do you want the support of these white nationalist groups who say they support you, Mr. President? Have you denounced them strongly enough," one reporter shouted.
"A car plowing into people, would you call that terrorism sir?" another asked.
Trump walked out of the room.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/12/politics/trump-fails-to-condemn-the-alt-right-white-supremacists/index.html
August 14: Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier said Monday that he was resigning from President Donald Trump‘s manufacturing council, citing Trump’s tepid and widely criticized response to violence over the weekend in Charlottesville, Va.
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“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,” Frazier said in a statement posted on Twitter.
http://fortune.com/2017/08/14/merck-kenneth-frazier-donald-trump-charlottesville/
August 14: We need to stop acting like Trump isn’t pandering to white supremacists ... When Trump has a chance to condemn white supremacy, he panders to it instead.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/13/16140504/trump-charlottesville-white-supremacists
August 14: Andrew Anglin is the founder of the Daily Stormer, an alt-right website. After the death of Heather Hoyer in Charlottesville, Virginia, Anglin wrote a post full of insults directed at the late 32-year-old, calling her a “slut” and “fat.”
Heyer was killed on August 12 during the “Unite The Right” rally organized by white supremacists and the alt-right. James Alex Field Jr. is suspected of driving his car into a crowd, killing Heyer and injuring dozens more.
While even Republicans criticized President Donald Trump for not condemning white supremacists, the alt-right had a different reaction. In its live-blog of the events in Charlottesville, the Daily Stormer praised Trump’s initial response to the violence there.
https://heavy.com/news/2017/08/andrew-anglin-daily-stormer-founder/
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August 14: An infamous neo-Nazi website has been evicted from its home on the Internet after a violent white nationalist rally drew fresh attention to hate speech in the United States.
The web hosting company GoDaddy, which has been criticized for months for hosting the Daily Stormer, announced late Sunday that “they have 24 hours to move the domain to another provider, as they have violated our terms of service.”
Sure enough, the Daily Stormer’s front page was shortly replaced with a drawing of a dead whale and an error message: “We’re having an outage.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/14/godaddy-bans-neo-nazi-site-daily-stormer-for-disparaging-woman-killed-at-charlottesville-rally/?utm_term=.5461c826f076
August 14: ... at least one group appears happy with Trump’s muted comments: White supremacists themselves.
Reacting to Trump’s words on Saturday, the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer praised the president’s comments as “good.”
He didn’t attack us. He just said the nation should come together. Nothing specific against us,” wrote Andrew Anglin, the website’s founder
The Southern Poverty Law Center describes The Daily Stormer as a site dedicated to “spreading anti-Semitism, neo-Nazism, and white nationalism.” “Jewish Problem” and “Race War” are among the editorial sections that can be found on the site.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/neo-nazi-daily-stormer-trump-charlottesville_us_59905c7ee4b08a2472750701
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August 14: Google has cut its ties with a top neo-Nazi website less than a day after GoDaddy did the same.
"We are cancelling Daily Stormer's registration with Google Domains for violating our terms of service," a Google spokesperson told NPR on Monday.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/google-godaddy-ban-top-neo-nazi-website/article/2631486
August 15: Notoriously punchable white supremacist leader Richard Spencer is wrong about the vast majority of things. But he may be right about the statement Donald Trump made on Monday after the political costs of not denouncing white supremacists grew too great:
"His statement today was more kumbaya nonsense," said Spencer, who attended and was slated to speak at the white nationalist "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday. "Only a dumb person would take those lines seriously."
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/15/1689810/-Richard-Spencer-Only-a-dumb-person-would-take-Trump-s-call-out-of-white-supremacists-seriously
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August 14: President Donald Trump called out the KKK, neo-Nazis and other hate groups in response to the deadly violence in Charlottesville, after criticism that his initial response to the tragedy was insufficient and cast the clashes as a matter of political equivalence.
Speaking from the Diplomatic Room at the White House, Trump said that hatred and bigotry “has no place in America,” while labeling racism as “evil.”
“Racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans,” Trump said.
http://variety.com/2017/biz/news/trump-kkk-neo-nazis-charlottesville-1202526738/
August 15: Full text: Trump’s comments on white supremacists, ‘alt-left’ in Charlottesville
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/15/full-text-trump-comments-white-supremacists-alt-left-transcript-241662
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August 15: Trump Defends White-Nationalist Protesters: 'Some Very Fine People on Both Sides'
The president backtracked from his remarks on Charlottesville just a day earlier.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/trump-defends-white-nationalist-protesters-some-very-fine-people-on-both-sides/537012/
August 15: Hate Site Criticizes Charlottesville Victim's Weight and Childlessness
Thirty-two-year-old Heather Heyer was killed on Saturday while protesting the white nationalist "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. James Alex Fields Jr., a white nationalist protester, is suspected of driving the car that killed her and was arrested and charged with murder. Her friends and family remembered her as someone who was passionate about social justice and stuck up for the oppressed. But The Daily Stormer, considered a neo-Nazi site and the country's biggest hate site by the Southern Poverty Law Center, took the opportunity to publish a horrifically tasteless article calling her "fat and a drain on society."
https://www.glamour.com/story/daily-stormer-heather-heyer-mocking-article
August 15: Read the transcript of Donald Trump's jaw-dropping press conference
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/15/read-the-transcript-of-donald-trumps-jaw-dropping-press-conference.html
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August 15: Trump's defense of the 'good people' at Charlottesville white nationalist march has David Duke gushing
The President's abrupt and belligerent about-face Tuesday, in which he lashed out at the media for mischaracterizing white supremacist protesters in Charlottesville, drew the swift condemnation of a number of lawmakers, including Republicans, and shocked the people who witnessed them.
But one person who was very happy with the words of the US President was the former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke
http://tucson.com/news/national/govt-and-politics/trump-s-defense-of-the-good-people-at-charlottesville-white/article_a4679bfc-7536-5135-97f8-2d2bd937f99b.html
On Twitter: No place for racial hatred or extremism in @USMC. Our core values of Honor, Courage, and Commitment frame the way Marines live and act.
August 15
@GenRobertNeller (Commandant, U.S.Marine Corps)
August 15: Obama’s response to Charlottesville violence is the most liked tweet in Twitter’s history ... retweeted more than 1.1 million times and liked 2.723 million times as of Tuesday evening.
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“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion … People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love … For love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite,” Obama said, quoting former South African president Nelson Mandela
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/08/15/obamas-response-to-charlottesville-violence-is-one-of-the-most-popular-in-twitters-history/?utm_term=.d9048a4e9bfa
August 16: Presidents George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush denounce racism in Charlottesville
https://www.abc2news.com/news/national/presidents-george-hw-bush-george-w-bush-condemn-trumps-charlottesville-statements
On Twitter: The Army doesn't tolerate racism, extremism, or hatred in our ranks. It's against our Values and everything we've stood for since 1775.
August 16
@ArmyChiefStaff (Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. Mark Milley)
On Twitter: I stand with my fellow Joint Chiefs in condemning racism, extremism & hatred. Our diversity is our strength. #NationalGuard
August 16
@ChiefNGB (Chief of the National Guard Bureau Joseph Lengyel)
On Twitter: I stand with my fellow service chiefs in saying we're always stronger together-it's who we are as #Airmen
August 16
@GenDaveGoldfein (Air Force General)
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August 16: "America must always reject racial bigotry, anti-Semitism, and hatred in all forms ... we are all created equal and endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights," ... "We know these truths to be everlasting because we have seen the decency and greatness of our country."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/16/politics/george-h-w-bush-george-w-bush-charlottesville-statement/index.html
August 16: President Trump's personal lawyer on Wednesday forwarded an email to conservative journalists, government officials and friends that echoed secessionist Civil War propaganda and declared that the group Black Lives Matter “has been totally infiltrated by terrorist groups.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/us/politics/trump-lawyer-email-race-charlottesville.html
August 18: Mitt Romney wrote a passionate criticism of President Trump’s response to Charlottesville, saying he must apologize. Romney called this a “defining moment” for Trump’s presidency.
“Whether he intended to or not, what [Trump] communicated caused racists to rejoice, minorities to weep, and the vast heart of America to mourn,” former Massachusetts [Republican] Governor Romney wrote in a Facebook post Friday morning. “The president must take remedial action in the extreme. He should address the American people, acknowledge that he was wrong, apologize. State forcefully and unequivocally that racists are 100% to blame for the murder and violence in Charlottesville.”
Romney joins a growing chorus of Republicans denouncing Trump for his delay in condemning racism after white nationalist rallies in Virginia turned violent and his statement that there is “blame on both sides” for the violence.
http://time.com/4906506/mitt-romney-president-trump-charlottesville/
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August 22: 56% of Americans Disapprove of President Trump's Response to Charlottesville
The Washington Post-ABC News poll found that 56% of adults disapproved of Trump’s response, while just 28% approved. There was a stark difference along party lines, as 84% of Democrats said they disapproved and just 19% of Republicans said the same. Among independents, 55% disapproved compared to just 28% approving.
http://time.com/4910203/donald-trump-charlottesville-protest-poll/
August 22: President Donald Trump on Tuesday night aired his grievances about the criticism of his response to the deadly Charlottesville, Virginia, rally.
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-rally-arizona-charlottesville-statement-2017-8
August 25: Fallout from Trump's Charlottesville response lands far and wide
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fallout-trumps-charlottesville-response-lands-wide/story?id=49397050
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September 15: Charlottesville: Trump repeats 'both sides' rhetoric
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41262866
September 15: Trump Signs Resolution Condemning Charlottesville Violence
The resolution was meant to force the president to condemn white nationalists and hate groups, but Trump told reporters he still blames “both sides” for the conflict.
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-09-15/trump-signs-charlottesville-resolution-but-revives-his-response-blaming-both-sides
October 6: Donald Trump Jr. defends father’s Charlottesville comments
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-jr-defends-fathers-charlottesville-comments/
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July 12: A new bill aims to send masked Antifa activists to jail for 15 years
Walter Shaub, the former director of the Office of Government Ethics, tweeted about the bill on Tuesday, suggesting it advanced "authoritarianism."
"Two groups go to Charlottesville. A big group chants racist filth, wields semi-automatic assault rifles, fires a gun into a crowd & murders a woman with a car," he wrote. "A small group wears masks. It's the small group these Congressmen want to lock up for 15 years. Authoritarianism rises."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/12/us/unmasking-antifa-act-trnd/
October 2: Four alleged members of a militant white supremacist group have been charged with inciting rioting and assaulting counterprotesters at last year's deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, according to court documents.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/02/us/charlottesville-rally-inciting-riot-charges/index.html
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