The most off-the-rail moments from Trump's tirade in Trump Tower

"There were people protesting very quietly the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee"

President Trump.
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Just one day after President Trump finally condemned white nationalists and neo-Nazis, he backpedaled in a combative press conference. When peppered with questions from reporters on Tuesday about the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend, Trump defended the protesters and returned to his earlier tack of pinning some of the blame on the counter-protesters.

"I think there's blame on both sides," Trump said, insisting that "not all of those people were neo-Nazis" or "white supremacists" and claiming that left-wing protesters "came violently attacking the other group."

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Becca Stanek, The Week US

Becca Stanek has worked as an editor and writer in the personal finance space since 2017. She previously served as a deputy editor and later a managing editor overseeing investing and savings content at LendingTree and as an editor at the financial startup SmartAsset, where she focused on retirement- and financial-adviser-related content. Before that, Becca was a staff writer at The Week, primarily contributing to Speed Reads.