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Former Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney took to Facebook and urged Donald Trump to apologize for his controversial remarks on the violence in Charlottesville.

“I will dispense for now from discussion of the moral character of the president’s Charlottesville statements,” he wrote. “Whether he intended to or not, what he communicated caused racists to rejoice, minorities to weep, and the vast heart of America to mourn. His apologists strain to explain that he didn’t mean what we heard. But what we heard is now the reality, and unless it is addressed by the president as such, with unprecedented candor and strength, there may commence an unraveling of our national fabric.”

Trump was criticized by leaders on both sides of the aisle for claiming “many sides” were to blame for the violence. He later said at Trump Tower, “You had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people.”

Mitt continued: “The potential consequences are severe in the extreme. Accordingly, the president must take remedial action in the extreme. He should address the American people, acknowledge that he was wrong, apologize. State forcefully and unequivocally that racists are 100 percent to blame for the murder and violence in Charlottesville.”