Charlottesville Mayor says Trump has Blood on his hands for not denouncing KKK and White Haters that kill innocents

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Charlottesville Mayor Blasts Trump’s ‘Repeated Failure’ To Denounce White Supremacists

“I think he made a choice” in the 2016 campaign “to really go to people’s prejudices,” the mayor says.

By Nina Golgowski

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Michael Signer, the Democratic mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia, slammed President Donald Trump’s “repeated failure” to condemn white supremacist groups, saying the nation isn’t “seeing leadership from the White House” on the issue. 

“Look at the campaign he ran. Look at the intentional courting ... on the one hand, of all of these white supremacists, white nationalist groups,” Signer said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” as he discussed the deadly violence that afflicted his city on Saturday sparked by a “Unite the Right” rally.

“And then look on the other hand at the repeated failure to step up and condemn, denounce, silence, put to bed, all of those different efforts just like we saw yesterday. This is not hard,” he said.

“There are two words that need to be said over and over again ― domestic terrorism and white supremacy,” he said.

Speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Signer said the views of these “anti-Semites, racists, Aryans, Nazis,” and KKK members previously had been kept “in the shadows.”

Now, he continued, “they’ve been given a key and a reason to come into the light.