Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017 | 2:13 p.m.
Republican Sen. Tim Scott is telling a newspaper in his home state of South Carolina that President Donald Trump's response to violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, "complicates this administration's moral authority."
Scott is the Senate's only black Republican. His comments to The Post and Courier of Charleston come after Trump said "both sides" were to blame for deadly violence between white supremacists and counterdemonstrators in Charlottesville.
He tells the newspaper that by drawing a "moral equivalency" between the two sides, "I think you are either missing four centuries of history in this nation or you are trying to make something what it's not."
Scott says Trump's controversies have compromised the GOP's ability to get things done on health care, taxes and financial regulations and have put Republicans in a "precarious position."
