Doyle McManus: Is there anyone left willing to defend the president?
by By Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Aug 21, 2017
3 minutes
When a van plowed into pedestrians in Barcelona last week, President Trump didn't wait for investigators to determine who the attackers were. Within minutes of the first reports, he tweeted: "The United States condemns the terror attack in Barcelona, Spain, and will do whatever is necessary to help."
But when a car rammed into a crowd in Charlottesville, Va., five days earlier, Trump decried violence "on many sides" and explained that he needed to wait for the facts to come in. Later, under pressure, he read a written statement condemning
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