BREAKING POINT

Rex Aide: Trump, Tillerson Disagreed on Charlottesville Response

They “have expressed different points of view,” an aide said.

President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson have merely “expressed different points of view” on the white-supremacist-fueled deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, a unnamed Tillerson aide told CNN on Monday. “[Tillerson] isn’t being critical, but more so reestablishing without confusion what are known American values,” the aide said. “Did [Trump] do the best job ever responding to Charlottesville? Nope. But that doesn’t mean America changes.” Trump has been criticized for seeming to suggest a moral equivalence between the white supremacists and counterprotesters. On Sunday, Tillerson appeared to distinguish the president’s values from American values, saying only: “The president speaks for himself.”