Whether Bannon was sacked, resigned or left by mutual agreement – as usual with the Trump administration there are contradictory accounts – is immaterial. When challenged about his apportioning of equal blame to “both sides” in Charlottesville, Trump let the mask slip. Some of the white supremacists were “fine people” and the violence, which left an anti-racism protester dead, was not entirely their fault, he claimed. Race is far too explosive, divisive and unresolved an issue in America to be treated in so irresponsible a manner. Nancy Pelosi, the leading Democrat, says she will seek to disgrace Trump by passing a motion of censure in Congress.

Source: The Guardian August 19, 2017 23:15 UTC