Charlottesville victim's mother: I won't speak with Trump

The mother of the woman killed Saturday as she protested against a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, will not speak to the president after his remarks earlier this week, she told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Friday.

“I have not, and now I will not,” Susan Bro, the mother of Heather Heyer, said Friday when asked whether she had spoken with President Donald Trump. “You can't wash this one away by shaking my hand and saying I'm sorry. I'm not forgiving for that.”


Bro said the first voicemail she received from the White House appeared to come during her daughter’s memorial service on Wednesday and that she had been too busy to return other calls from Trump’s press office.

She told “Good Morning America” that she had similarly been too busy to watch the news until Thursday evening, which was the first time she saw clips from the president’s Tuesday news conference, in which he said blame for the violence over the weekend in Charlottesville should be shared between the white supremacist groups and those gathered to protest their presence. Both sides contained “very fine people,” Trump said.

In his specific remarks about Heyer, Trump has been effusive in his praise, calling her “beautiful and incredible” and “a truly special young woman.” But his comments on the protest, Heyer’s mother said, are unforgivable.

“I hadn't really watched the news until last night, and I'm not talking to the president now, I'm sorry, after what he said about my child,” she said. “And it's not that I saw somebody else's tweets about him. I saw an actual clip of him at a press conference equating the protesters like Ms. Heyer with the KKK and the white supremacists.”

