Trump Again Compares White Supremacists, Protesters, Drawing Rebuke

President Donald Trump again drew a parallel between white supremacists and counter protesters on Thursday, drawing a mild rebuke from South Carolina’s Tim Scott, the only black Republican in the Senate who met with Trump to discuss racial issues a day earlier.

Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One Thursday that the actions of “pretty bad dudes” among anti-fascist protesters known as Antifa had validated his statement that both sides at last month’s demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia, shared blame for violence in which a woman protesting against neo-Nazi and Confederate groups was killed.