At McClintock’s remote town hall, Trump is never far
By Phil Willon, Los Angeles Times
Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Elk Grove, who has faced rowdy protesters and sharp barbs at town halls this year, received a kinder if not exactly warm response in a remote town in the Sierra foothills Thursday evening.
Most of the hostility from the crowd inside the Foresthill High School gym focused on McClintock’s support for President Trump.
The congressman faced multiple questions on Trump’s controversial comments about the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12, prompting McClintock to disavow the hate groups and defend the president.
“There’s no such thing as a fine person who marches with the Ku Klux Klan or the Nazis,” McClintock said, a clear repudiation of Trump’s assertion that there were “very fine people on both sides.”