Charlottesville

This announcement, made a year after the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was met with glee from well-known white nationalists.

Comedy loves a callback, but the “both sides” rimshot reaches back to the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Donald Trump’s refusal to condemn the mob that stoked violence in that city.

The audience laughed as she invoked comments made by President Trump when he was asked in 2017 about violence around the tearing down of a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, N.C.

Guest: Elle Reeve, CNN correspondent who reported on the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, VA for Vice News.

“The Defenders” hit Netflix days after a torch-wielding mob of white supremacists descended on Charlottesville, VA., one of whom drove into a crowd of protesters, killing Heather Heyer and injuring 19 others.