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‘Unite the Right’ organizer Jason Kessler was reportedly an Obama supporter involved in the Occupy movement as recently as November 2016, before establishing his white supremacist group “Unity & Security for America” in January, 2017.

Per the Southern Poverty Law Center:

Rumors abound on white nationalist forums that Kessler’s ideological pedigree before 2016 was less than pure and seem to point to involvement in the Occupy movement and past support for President Obama.

After President Donald Trump warned on Friday that the US military is “locked and loaded” and presumably prepared for an all-out nuclear showdown with North Korea, administration officials engaged in that most artful of Trump-era maneuvers: softening the president’s rhetoric without appearing to undercut him.

Authored by Jeff Deist via The Mises Institute,

The political violence in Charlottesville yesterday was as predictable as it was futile. One person was killed and dozens badly injured, marking a new low in the political and cultural wars that are as heated as any time since in America since the 1960s.

Merck CEO Ken Frazier has resigned from the President's Manufacturing Council as a "matter of personal conscience" following Trump's apparent lack of rejection of "expressions of hatred, bigotry, and group supremacy."

Statement from Kenneth C. Frazier, chairman and chief executive officer, Merck:

"I am resigning from the President's American Manufacturing Council.