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Republicans Rebuke Trump All Over Again

The president’s return to “both sides” rhetoric on Charlottesville brings a familiar round of criticism from GOP lawmakers practiced in the art of presidential scolding.
Source: Yuri Gripas / Reuters

Updated at 9:33 p.m. ET

If President Trump’s belated denunciation on Monday of white supremacists, racism, and neo-Nazism brought congressional Republicans a brief period of relief, his press conference on Tuesday gave the party a whole new—if all too familiar—headache.

Trump seemed to return to his rhetoric from Saturday, when after the death of a woman in Charlottesville, Virginia, he blamed “many sides” for the day’s strife—a reaction from his fellow Republicans. During his remarks Tuesday, the president the white

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