(CNN) Two days apart, President Trump issued two different statements about the violence that engulfed Charlottesville, Virginia, during a white supremacist rally over the weekend.

Shortly after a car drove through a crowd of counterprotesters on Saturday, killing one and wounding dozens, Trump released a statement criticizing violence "from many sides."

Facing criticism over the vague wording of his initial response, Trump released a second statement on Monday that divided his white nationalist supporters. Some heard the diluted words of a man forced to bow to media pressure, while others found winking encouragement in between the lines.

When he says 'all sides,' they hear vindication

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We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides.

As violence spread across Charlottesville, Trump spoke from a podium in Bedminster, New Jersey. The statement, seemingly strong in its tone but vague on the intended subjects, worried career politicians and anti-racists who sensed a President unwilling to rebuke white nationalism by name.

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