August 16, 2017
The Senate's top Republican, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (pictured), condemned "hate and bigotry." House Speaker Paul Ryan charged that, "White supremacy is repulsive." Neither criticized the president's insistence that there were "very fine people on both sides" of a violent weekend clash between white supremacists and counterdemonstrators. Photo courtesy Flickr/Gage Skidmore
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