--- description: President Trump provided more comments on the white supremacist rally that turned deadly in Charlottesville. Read the full transcript here. title: Read President Trump's 'Blame on Both Sides' Comments on Charlottesville image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltef21274c6dc3683f/6988d9dc97cdff2b2f6b20b7/gettyimages-831968184.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [White House](/tag/white-house/) ## White House Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Read the Transcript of President Trump's 'Blame on Both Sides' Comments on Charlottesville by [Lisa Marie Segarra](/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 15, 2017 9:26 PM CUT  US President Donald Trump speaks to the press about protests in Charlottesville after his statement on the infrastructure discussion in the lobby at Trump Tower in New York on August 15, 2017. US President Donald Trump speaks to the press about protests in Charlottesville after his statement on the infrastructure discussion in the lobby at Trump Tower in New York on August 15, 2017.Jim Watson—AFP/Getty by [Lisa Marie Segarra](/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 15, 2017 9:26 PM CUT President Donald Trump on Tuesday doubled down on [his comments from Saturday that there was blame on “many sides”](http://time.com/4899813/donald-trump-charlottes-ville-remarks-transcript/ "undefined") to the violence during a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va. His comments came after a [car rammed into a group of counter-protesters](http://time.com/4898983/charlottesville-car-james-fields-nazism/ "undefined"), killing one and injuring 19 others. The “Unite the Right” rally was scheduled to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. “I think there’s blame on both sides,” he said. The white supremacists at the rally included people who marched with Nazi flags. Trump did condemn the [killing of counter-protester Heather Heyer](http://time.com/4898842/tavis-smiley-donald-trump-american-hate/ "undefined") and said he would reach out to her family. “You can call it terrorism, you can call it murder. You can call it whatever you want. The driver of the car is a murderer and what he did was a horrible, horrible, inexcusable things,” Trump said. 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