President Donald Trump’s controversy with the violence of the supremacist groups has greatly worsened his relationship with Congress, especially with his fellow Republicans, whom he needs to move his political agenda forward.
The shocking statements of the billionaire about what happened last weekend in Charlottesville, where violent episodes of racist taint in which a young woman died, have provoked a wave of criticism against Trump both outside and inside the country. Also in his own party.
If his relationship with congressmen was already delicate given his unconventional way of doing things, the statements in which he shared the blame for what happened to “the two sides” and did not condemn white supremacism without ambiguities have earned him the repulsion of Numerous party mates.
“What about the alt-left that attacked what you call alt-right? Do they have any guilt?” The president said during a news conference in New York.
“There was a group on one side that was bad and there was a group on the other side that was also very violent,” Trump added, reversing his Monday sentence to the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and supporters, who came forced By the warmth of his first reaction to the event.
Although the Legislature is in summer recess, senators and congressmen have condemned the billionaire’s lack of determination and inability to send a clear message against neo-Nazism.
The influential Republican Senator Bob Corker, chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Relations Committee, was charged Thursday with one of the most fierce criticisms of Trump, one of the most unequivocal signs of the tension between conservative lawmakers And the agent.
“The president has not yet been able to show stability or part of the competition he needs to demonstrate to succeed.” And our nation and our world need it to be successful, whether it be Republican or Democrat, “the senator said Thursday after a The state it represents, Tennessee.
“It has also recently failed to demonstrate the character of this nation, what has made it great and what it is today.” He has to demonstrate the characteristics of a president who understands that. He insisted.
Corker also said the White House needed “radical changes,” an assertion that occurred less than 24 hours before controversial chief strategist Steve Bannon, known for his sympathy for the far right, left the executive.
Corker’s voice was also compounded by the condemnation of other Republican senators such as Jeff Flake of Arizona or Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, whom the tycoon himself tossed without attention on Twitter.
Graham said on Wednesday that Trump’s reaction to racist violence was dividing the country, saying he made “moral equivalence” between white racists and Heather Heyer, the 32-year-old woman who died after being hit by a car allegedly Led by a neo-Nazi.
“I, along with many others, do not endorse this moral equivalence,” Graham said. “Many Republicans will fight against the idea that the Lincoln Party has a welcome carpet for the David Dukes of the world,” said the all-important Senator from the Ku Klux Klan.
“We can not accept excuses about white supremacy and acts of internal terrorism,” Flake said.
However, other members of the party have preferred to condemn racist expressions but not to enter into further discussions with the billionaire, as is the case of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who already staged a stern clash with Trump a few weeks ago by The lack of achievements of the Republicans in the Legislative.
In addition to strong and growing criticism among conservatives, a group of Democratic congressmen presented a censorship resolution on Friday, a measure that, if passed by Congress, would officially condemn the mogul’s words about what happened in Virginia.
Democrats are seeking support among their Republican colleagues to approve the text, something that does not imply the expulsion of an individual from public office, but would be a formal rebuke by lawmakers.
