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US Congress urges Trump to condemn white supremacists
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IANS | 13 Sep, 2017
The US Congress has urged President Donald Trump in a joint resolution
to publicly condemn white supremacists and other hate groups and address
the threats posed by them.
The Senate and House of
Representatives unanimously adopted the resolution on Tuesday, which was
the first congressional response to the violence on August 12 in
Charlottesville, Virginia, Efe news reported.
On that day, a
neo-Nazi killed a woman and injured at least 20 others when he drove a
vehicle into a group of counter-protesters who were demonstrating
against the white supremacists in Charlottesville.
The resolution
condemned "the racist violence and domestic terrorist attack", and
rejected white nationalism, white supremacy, and neo-Nazism "as hateful
expressions of intolerance that are contradictory to the values that
define the people of the United States".
The Congress also urged
Trump to "speak out against hate groups that espouse racism, extremism,
xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and white supremacy".
It also urged
his administration to "use all available resources" to "address the
growing prevalence of those hate groups in the US".
Trump first
blamed "many sides", and avoided condemning the white supremacist groups
as being responsible for the August 12 incident.
The President
took almost 48 hours to speak out against the neo-Nazis, white
supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan, who were all present in
Charlottesville on that day.
He initially responded to the
incident by saying there were "two sides to a story" and that there were
"some very fine people" on both sides.
The resolution adopted in the US Congress has been passed to Trump, who then has to decide whether to sign it or not.
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