Trump Defends 'Beauty' Of Confederate Memorials
The tweets come after days of the president whipsawing back and forth on his response to the violence in Charlottesville, Va., that led to the death of 32-year-old Heather Heyer.
by Danielle Kurtzleben
Aug 17, 2017
2 minutes
Updated at 11:44 a.m. ET
President Trump stood by his heavily criticized defense of monuments commemorating the Confederacy in a series of tweets Thursday morning. Trump said removing the statues of Confederate generals meant removing "beauty" — that would "never able to be comparably replaced" — from American cities. As he did in a Tuesday press conference, he also attempted to equate
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