Trump Blasts Graham on 'Moral Equivalency' after Virginia Attack


TEHRAN (Tasnim) – US President Donald Trump on Thursday fired back at a critic in his own party who had denounced the president's response to the Charlottesville, Virginia, attack.

Trump said he had not drawn a "moral equivalency" between white hate groups and counter-protesters.

The US president, on Twitter, called fellow Republican Senator Lindsey Graham's statement a day earlier "a disgusting lie," Reuters reported.

On Wednesday, Graham had said Trump's statements after the weekend attack had suggested "moral equivalency" between the two sides and urged him to instead use his words to heal Americans instead.