Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) says President Trump needs to be more clear in his condemnation of hate groups.

Lankford said Trump has sent a confusing message by implying that counterprotesters who attended a rally of white supremacists over the weekend in Charlottesville, Va., also deserved blame for violence that left one woman dead.

“I think he could have been clearer on it, there’s no question [about] that,” he said. “I’ve made some statements of my own to be able to make very, very clear that we don’t encourage or condone in any way racism.”

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Lankford argued that neo-Nazis and white supremacists were solely responsible for the violence in Charlottesville, something that Trump has blamed on demonstrators on both sides of the political spectrum.

“The violence that happened in Charlottesville was solely the responsibility of white nationalists that were there that was provoking what was occurring,” he said.

Some white supremacists who rallied over the weekend showed up armed with weapons and wearing armor.

In his initial statement, Trump condemned “in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides,” implying that people protesting the neo-Nazis and white supremacists also deserved condemnation.

At a press conference in New York on Tuesday, Trump said the alleged driver of a car that killed a counterprotester is a “murderer” and said there were “some very bad people” in the group of neo-Nazis who showed up in Virginia to protest plans to take down a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

But he said “you also had people that were very fine people on both sides” and accused “the alt-left” protesters of “charging with clubs in their hands.”

Lankford said these statements have created moral ambiguity that needs to be eliminated.

“Any time he steps up and tries to equate two groups or two conversations, I think that muddies the water,” he said of Trump. “I just think you need to be very, very clear with the statements and how they’re made.”