Leid Stories—Trump and His ‘Facts’ About Charlottesville—08.16.17

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He would have addressed sooner the race war that exploded last Saturday in a three-part tragedy in Charlottesville, Va., but President Donald Trump said he thought it ill-advised to speak without knowing “all the facts.”

That moment apparently came yesterday. Armed with the “facts,” Trump called a news conference at his Trump Tower in Manhattan to tell America the truth of what happened. Well, he didn’t.

Leid Stories shares and discusses Trump’s “facts” about the state of affairs in Charlottesville.