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'He messed up ... it was wrong': Paul Ryan nails Trump over response to Charlottesville

Ryan said Trump and everyone else needs to do more to fight racism and anti-Semitism.

House Speaker Paul Ryan had sharp criticism for President Donald Trump on Monday night when asked about President Donald Trump's handling of a white nationalist rally that turned deadly in Charlottesville, Virginia, earlier this month.

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In an answer to a question from the audience, Ryan dinged Trump's response during a CNN town-hall event in Ryan's Wisconsin congressional district. He called Trump's August 14 speech, in which the presidentdenounced white supremacist groups by name, "pitch-perfect." Trump condemned the hate groups after

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