"Why doesn't President Donald Trump just unequivocally condemn white supremacists?" asks Associated Press Washington bureau chief Julie Pace. "It's a jarring question to ask about an American president. But it's also one made unavoidable by Trump's delayed, blame-both-sides response to the violence that erupted Saturday when neo-Nazis, skinheads, and members of the Ku Klux Klan protested in Charlottesville, Virginia." According to White House officials and Trump associates, Trump did not want to single out the white nationalists, for whatever reason. Trump "consulted a broad range of advisers before speaking on Saturday, most of whom told him to sharply criticize the white nationalist protesters," The New York Times reports, citing a White House official.