Charlottesville victim's mum rebukes Trump

Charlottesville victim's mum rebukes Trump

The mother of a woman killed in violent clashes at a white supremacist rally has said she has "no interest" in speaking with President Donald Trump.

Susan Bro said she refuses to speak to Mr Trump after hearing him equate demonstrators, like her daughter, with white supremacists.

Her daughter, Heather Heyer, was killed on Saturday after a car ploughed through a crowd of counter-protesters.

She said she did not "want to be used for political agendas".

Mrs Bro told ABC New's Good Morning America television programme she missed a call from the White House, which appeared to have been made during her daughter's public memorial on Wednesday.

She added that she received three more "frantic messages" from Mr Trump's press team later in the day but was too exhausted from the funeral to talk.
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