Charlottesville Mayor: ‘We Just Aren’t Seeing Leadership From the White House’

Charlottesville Mayor Michael Signer spoke with CNN’s Jake Tapper this morning and, while saying “this is not about Donald Trump,” had a few words of criticism for the President in the wake of the violence and open display of white supremacy.

Tapper brought up comments he made yesterday about the President and asked him, “Why do you think the president himself bears responsibility?”

Mayor Signer said this in response:

“Well, look at the campaign he ran. I mean, look at the intentional courting––both on the one hand of all these white supremacists, white nationalists, groups like that, anti-Semitic groups, and then look on the other hand––the repeated failure to condemn, denounce, silence, you know, put to bed all those different efforts just like we saw yesterday. This is not hard.”

He added, “There’s two words that need to be said over and over again. Domestic terrorism and white supremacy. That is exactly what we saw on display this weekend, and we just aren’t seeing leadership from the White House.”

When Tapper brought up the “on many sides” comment, Signer said, “I sort of hung my head.”

He did go on to say this isn’t about Trump, “this is about the United States of America.”

Watch above, via CNN.

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