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Trump faces business backlash over handling of Charlottesville upheaval

U.S. President Donald Trump salutes as he steps from Air Force One at Kennedy Airport in New York, U.S., August 14, 2017.

U.S. President Donald Trump, facing a mounting political furor and backlash from business leaders, has explicitly condemned neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacists two days after a rally by hate groups in Virginia turned deadly.

The Republican president's specific denunciation of extreme right-wing organizations, whose followers constitute a devoted segment of his political base, came on Monday after a torrent of criticism from Democrats and members of his own party.

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