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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDNC Chairman Tom Perez letter to GOP Chair: You bear a responsibility for Trump
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DNC Chairman Tom Perez letter to GOP Chair: You bear a responsibility for Trump
Heidi M Przybyla, USA TODAY Published 8:48 p.m. ET Aug. 16, 2017 | Updated 11:16 a.m. ET Aug. 17, 2017
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The White House communications office is urging the GOP to stick to the talking points they crafted saying President Trump is entirely correct on Charlottesville. Susana Victoria Perez (@susana_vp) has more. Buzz60
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WASHINGTON Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez sent a letter Wednesday night to the head of the Republican National Committee as it grapples with President Trumps controversial response to white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Va.
The leader of your Republican Party, President Trump, responded first with silence, then with begrudging condemnation, and most recently with words that embolden white supremacy, Perez wrote in the letter to RNC Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel.
The letter arrived a day after Trumps Manhattan news conference in which he compared Americans protesting Nazis to the Unite the Right crowds who marched with torches chanting Nazi slogans to protest the dismantling of a confederate monument of General Robert E. Lee.
He tore open the scars of history while creating a dangerous false equivalency between those upholding racism and those fighting to defeat it, said Perez...........................................
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DNC Chairman Tom Perez letter to GOP Chair: You bear a responsibility for Trump (Original Post)
riversedge
Aug 2017
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Gothmog
(145,794 posts)1. Yeah for DNC Chair Perez
Wounded Bear
(58,765 posts)2. K & R ......for visibility..nt
procon
(15,805 posts)3. Republicans will respond as soon as someone from Fox News tells them what to say. nt
riversedge
(70,414 posts)4. It is the truth.