He has also drawn parallels between white supremacists and anti-hate protesters like Heather Heyer, who was killed during the violence in Charlottesville. Trump denied on Twitter that he had said there was a moral equivalence between the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and white supremacists and the anti-hate protesters. Calls to remove the confederate statues on display in cities, states and even the US Capitol have escalated in the days since Charlottesville. Some of the white supremacists in Charlottesville claimed they were demonstrating in protest at the push to remove the city’s statue of Lee. Over Charlottesville, Flake had said on Twitter: “We can’t accept excuses for white supremacy and acts of domestic terrorism,” he wrote.

Source: The Guardian August 17, 2017 12:23 UTC