CNN
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Two days apart, President Trump issued two different statements about the violence that engulfed Charlottesville, Virginia, during a white supremacist rally over the weekend.
Shortly after a car drove through a crowd of counterprotesters on Saturday, killing one and wounding dozens, Trump released a statement criticizing violence “from many sides.”
Facing criticism over the vague wording of his initial response, Trump released a second statement on Monday that divided his white nationalist supporters. Some heard the diluted words of a man forced to bow to media pressure, while others found winking encouragement in between the lines.