Writers Guild of America West Blasts Trump Charlottesville Comments: ‘Disgraces Our Nation’
Guild issues a statement one day after the president gave a bizarre press conference at Trump Tower
The Writers Guild of America West condemned President Trump’s latest comments on Saturday’s terrorist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, calling his equivocation of white supremacists and anti-fascist protestors something that “legitimizes hate speech and violence, and disgraces our nation.”
While many Republican politicians — and even Trump’s chief of staff, Gen. John Kelly — winced at the remarks, former KKK leader David Duke tweeted his approval.