EPISODE · Aug 16, 2017 · 26 MIN
How does a Charlottesville witness hear the President's response to the protests?
from TrumpWatch with Jesse Lent · host WBAI 99.5fm, New York City's Pacifica radio station
On Saturday, after a 20-year-old Nazi sympathizer named James Alex Fields Jr. drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring 19 others, President Donald Trump addressed the nation from his Bedminster, N.J. golf course. His statement that blame was shared by "many sides" was immediately called out for being insufficient by politicians of both parties, leading the President to call the KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists "repugnant" in a revised statement on the issue on Monday. But the following day, Trump appeared to double down on his original comments that there was blame on both sides. On this week's TrumpWatch, host Jesse Lent talks to Scott Marzano, a former U.S. Marine who served two tours of duty in Iraq and participated in the counter-protest in Charlottesville on Saturday. Scott was standing in the same crowd of counter-protesters as Heather Heyer when she was killed. Beyond sharing his first-hand account of the tragic event, the ex-Marine's offers his own impression of President Trump's response to the attack.
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