According to documentary filmmaker, Michael Moore, supporters of President Donald Trump are all racists. “If you vote for a racist, what are you then? Because it sure sounds like racism to me,” he told CNN’s Don Lemon in a late-night interview on Tuesday. “He’s absolutely a racist,” Moore said of Trump, then went on to say, “If you still support the racist, you are the racist.”

Moore was responding to the president’s press conference held earlier the same day, during which Trump said that “both sides” played a part in the Charlottesville violence between white supremacists and counter-protesters. Moore accused Trump of saying in the press conference, “that the white nationalists were the victims, that he equated George Washington and Thomas Jefferson with Robert E. Lee, and said that the people there trying to stop the racism, the anti-racism protesters, that they were the violent ones.”

Moore went on to draw what Lemon called a “powerful and uncomfortable anecdote,” saying, “If you hold down the woman while the rapist is raping her, but you didn’t rape her, are you a rapist?” Moore asked.

“Wow!” said Pat Gray in response to Moore’s shocking comparison. (Read more from “Michael Moore Says All Trump Supporters Are Racists” HERE)

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By News Corp Australia Network. COMBATIVE and insistent, President Donald Trump declared “there is blame on both sides” for the deadly violence last weekend in Charlottesville, appearing to once again equate the actions of white supremacist groups and those protesting them.

In an extraordinary press conference, Mr Trump said the groups protesting against white supremacists in Charlottesville were “also very violent.” He also claimed there were “fine people” protesting against the removal of Confederate symbols.

“You had some fine people. But you also had trouble makers,” he told media at Trump Tower . . .

“There are two sides to a story,” he said. He added that some facts about the violence still aren’t known.

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan wrote: “We must be clear. White supremacy is repulsive. This bigotry is counter to all this country stands for. There can be no moral ambiguity.”

We must be clear. White supremacy is repulsive. This bigotry is counter to all this country stands for. There can be no moral ambiguity.

— Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) August 15, 2017

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Trump Claims There Were People at White Nationalist Rally Who Just Wanted to Save a Statue

By Alex Pfeiffer. President Donald Trump defended certain elements of the white nationalist protests in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend on Tuesday, saying that there were people who just wanted to protect the statue of Robert E. Lee.

Trump held a news conference at Trump Tower in New York City and addressed the uproar he has received for his initial tepid response to violence surrounding a white nationalist protest in Charlottesville on Saturday. The president criticized media coverage and said that both white nationalists and counter-protesters were responsible for the violence.

He also said that people attending the protests had been unfairly maligned. “You had people, and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists because they should be condemned totally, but you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists and the press has treated them unfairly,” Trump stated. He at one point said that some at the rally were “very fine people.” (Read more from “Trump Claims There Were People at White Nationalist Rally Who Just Wanted to Save a Statue” HERE)

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President Donald Trump appeared to lack enthusiasm Thursday when he said his relationship with Attorney General Jeff Session is “fine”—after repeatedly expressing disappointment in the head of the Justice Department and even calling him “beleaguered.”

Trump’s recent negative tweets about Sessions—an Alabama Republican who was the first sitting U.S. senator to support Trump in the 2016 presidential race—prompted frustration and some anger among fellow conservatives.

Trump has said his disappointment stems from Sessions’ recusing himself from congressional and FBI investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Many conservatives continue to back the attorney general’s decision, since he was part of the Trump campaign. But eventually that move led to the Justice Department’s naming special counsel Robert Mueller, a former FBI director, to lead an independent investigation.

Trump also complained in tweets about Sessions not investigating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, his Democratic opponent in last year’s election.

After a national security briefing Thursday at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, a reporter asked Trump about his relationship with the attorney general.

“It’s fine. It is what it is. It’s fine,” Trump said.

The president went on to give Sessions some credit for his work to enforce immigration law, go after criminal illegal immigrants, and combat the violent MS-13 gang.

“He’s working hard on the border. I’m very proud of what we’ve done on the border,” Trump said.

But then he shifted his praise to White House chief of staff John Kelly, a retired Marine general who spent six months as secretary of homeland security.

“I’m very proud of General Kelly, what he’s done on the border,” Trump said. “One of the reasons he’s my chief of staff right now is because he did such an outstanding job at the border.”

The position of homeland security secretary is now vacant, with Kelly’s move to the White House last month.

In July tweets, Trump also blasted Sessions for not investigating leakers.

Sessions last week announced the Justice Department would aggressively investigate federal employees who leak classified information to reporters.

Trump joked Thursday about two types of leaks—politically motivated leaks that are not that serious and leaks of classified information from intelligence agencies:

You have the leaks coming out of intelligence and various departments having to do with Syria, having to do with all sorts of different places, having to do, frankly, with North Korea. And those are very serious.

And then you have the leaks where people want to love me and they’re all fighting for love. Those are not very important, but certainly we don’t like them. Those are little inner-White House leaks. They’re not very important. But, actually, I’m somewhat honored by them.

But the important leaks to me—and they’re leaks that the attorney general is looking at very strongly—are the leaks coming out of intelligence. And we have to stop them for the security and the national security of our country.

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