Heather Heyer's mother has buried her daughter. And she isn't happy with the President:
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Heather Heyer's mother doesn't want to talk to the President. He made several calls to try to reach her but she missed them ... the first Presidential call came DURING her daughter's funeral. (The WH couldn't find out what time the funeral was and not try to place his call DURING the funeral?) After the funeral, she saw a clip on tv of the President equating the protestors her daughter was with with Nazis. So now she's not interested in talking to him. She has started receiving death threats from Trump supporters already.
I know it sounds outlandish but will the President strike out at her verbally or by tweet? You have to wonder. He's attacked a Gold Star family and slammed POW's so why not "punch back" a bereaved mother?
Mother of Charlottesville Victim Heather Heyer Says She’s Received Death Threats by CHELSEA BAILEY
A day after burying her daughter, the mother of a woman killed during Saturday’s white nationalist rally in Charlottesville scoffed at President Donald Trump’s claim that violence on “both sides” led to her daughter’s death.
Susan Bro said Thursday that any fights between marching racists and counter-protesters were “irrelevant” because her daughter, Heather Heyer, was simply peacefully protesting when she was brutally mowed down.
Charlottesville Victim Heather Heyer's Mother, Susan Bro, Discusses Her Daughter's Legacy (Full Interview) 13:13
"Whether there was violence on both sides or not is irrelevant," Bro told MSNBC's Katy Tur. "The guy mowed my daughter down and, sorry, that’s not excusable."
Heyer was killed Saturday when a man police have said is 20-year-old James Alex Fields, Jr. drove his car into a crowd of protesters following a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. She was 32.
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In the exclusive interview, Bro said that the White House has reached out to her several times since her daughter’s death, but that she hasn’t had a chance to speak to President Trump.
“I saw that his office had called about three times,” she said. “It feels awful, but I just haven’t had time to talk to the president.”
Trump has received sharp condemnation for first refusing to rebuke the white nationalist protesters, and later for saying that there were “very fine people” on "both sides" of the rally — despite the fact that one side chanted Nazi slogans and carried Nazi flags.
If Heyer were alive, Bro said her daughter would laugh in the face of the bigots who are emboldened by Trump’s defense of their Confederate monument protest.
“She would have laughed them to scorn,” she said.
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She also added that she feels Trump is catering to the wrong groups of voters.
Susan Bro, the mother of Heather Heyer, holds a photo of Bro's mother and her daughter on Aug. 14, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va. Heyer was killed Aug. 12, when police say a man plowed his car into a group of demonstrators protesting the white nationalist rally. Bro said that she is going to bare her soul to fight for the cause that her daughter died for. Joshua Replogle / AP
“I think the president has found a niche in voters of the people who feel marginalized and I think he has continued to nurture those marginalized voters,” she said. “I’ve had death threats already ... because of what I’m doing right this second."
Despite the threats, Bro said she refuses to live in fear and has vowed to continue to carry on her daughter’s legacy by establishing a foundation in her name.
"I want people to start talking to one another," she said. "Equality is ... when you see a person not a label."
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