Ivanka Trump, the daughter of US President Donald Trump, condemned a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
“There should be no place in society for racism, white supremacy and neo-nazis,” Ivanka Trump tweeted from her personal Twitter page on Sunday morning.
“We must all come together as Americans — and be one country UNITED,” she also tweeted, echoing her father, who had tweeted Saturday: “We ALL must be united & condemn all that hate stands for. There is no place for this kind of violence in America. Lets come together as one!”
1:2 There should be no place in society for racism, white supremacy and neo-nazis.
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) August 13, 2017
President Trump repeated his condemnation of the violence.
“We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides — on many sides,” Trump said in a news conference on Saturday afternoon.
Ivanka Trump serves as a West Wing adviser to her father. She converted to Judaism in 2008, before her marriage to Jared Kusher, who serves as a top aide to President Donald Trump.
Although the focus of the white supremacists rally on Saturday ostensibly was on preserving symbols of the confederacy, there were overt expressions of anti-Semitism and Nazi sympathy, including swastika flags, and signs that said “The Jewish media is going down.” Chanting by the white supremacist rally-goers at times targeted Jews, naming the town’s Jewish mayor, Mike Signer.