McMaster Breaks With Trump On Charlottesville
HR McMaster calls Charlottesville attack terrorism.
Nationals security adviser H.R. McMaster on Sunday broke with Donald Trump by calling the car attack in Charlottesville terrorism.
During an appearance on ABC’s This Week, McMaster was asked if he thought the attack was terrorism.
“I certainly think any time that you commit an attack against people to incite fear, it is terrorism. It meets the definition of terrorism,” McMaster said.
McMaster’s statement comes just one day after a car driven by a white supremacist protester plowed through a crowd of anti-white supremacist protesters killing one and injuring dozens.
Donald Trump has thus far refused to call the act a case of domestic terrorism and has come under fire for his tepid response to the violent neo-nazi march.
James Alex Fields Jr., 20, of Ohio was arrested and charged with second-degree murder in the car attack, and federal officials have opened a civil rights investigation.
McMaster also said that the United States must “extinguish in our nation” the “hatred and bigotry” on display in Virginia Saturday.
“And we have to do that by asking ourselves what are we teaching our children around the dinner table? What are we teaching our children in school?” he said.
“And we ought to be teaching them about what makes America exception, and that’s our commitment to the rights of every individual, liberty, freedom, respect for each other regardless of race, religion, and so forth.”
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