You should do a follow up story to ask if any of these folks think Trumps words were not reported accurately. 45 seemed to think he could correct the record but I'm pretty sure all of these folks would stick to their condemnations, which would be a pretty clear indication how foolish Trumps attempt was

A nice start; what took so long? And where are the rest of their professional colleagues?

Just remember the "lists of the indignant" after the "Billy Bush Tapes" came out. They most all fell in step before the dust settled.........as will most after this. It's only become the "latest faux pas," "after all it's just Trump being Trump," and business will go on as usual.

Wow, so just one evangelical quit Trump's so-called Evangelical Advisory Board. Out of curiosity, I Googled that entity to find out how big it is. There were 25 members, and now there are 24. Well, if there was ever a sign that if you basically approve of Jesus' message of love and charity, you should stay far the heck away from evangelicals - this may be it.

What Would Jesus Do, indeed.

I thought it very telling that the list included only one evangelical. This is not the Christianity, or the Holy Bible, that I knew as a child. How did these people get so far offtrack?

No Republican Senator or Congressman or -woman has done ANYTHING to really distance her or him from President Trump.

However, Collins, Murkowksi and McCain get a minimum approval for refusing to vote to repeal the ACA.

All the rest of the GOP congresspersons are hypocrites and posers.

Even Trump's "enemy", Senator Jeff Flake, who voted to repeal the ACA and strip millions of their health insurance.

Here is the problem: only dozens. Not even scores. I will be impressed when it says "Only dozens remain".

Everyone at every level is seeing what they want to see concerning what happened in Charlottesville. The far left caused the violence. We were there. The far right is ugly and mean and low iq — no arguments there — but the far left caused the violence. They share some guilt as far as that poor woman getting killed. Last night at our city council meeting, again, the far left attacked and terrorized the city council members themselves, causing the police to intercede and the meeting to be shut down in its tracks, even though the city council members are on the same side as these violent protestors. The NYT should be covering that story,too.

Of course, there would only be one Evangelical who has the integrity to w/draw from Trump's band of Evangelical pastors.

I'm the last person to defend Sen. Ted Cruz, but he did make a forceful comment in opposition to the president, even when he did not directly name him, as Paul Ryan. So Ted Cruz is definitely missing from this list.

Well, it seems the majority of the GOP senators and representatives have no problem with Trump's sympathy for the neo-Nazi/KKK white supremacy movements.

I dumped people who said they overlooked his racism and sexism because it did not directly affect them, which in and of itself is supremely selfish. Everyday I'm reminded that I made the right decision. If you say nothing, you support him and his ideology.

Thumbs up for this group. They understand the responsibility that comes with leadership, and are willing to go toe-to-toe with the bully-in-chief on behalf of the American people. These are the kind of people that are truly helping to make America great again.

Strange to lump the cultural leaders in with the others, most of whom have been equivocating for so long their "rebukes" are getting a little bit pathetic. Even the business leaders may have been better off with a seat at the table, and only Richard Trumka truly went all the way in rejecting after trying to work with the administration. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is one of those Republicans who only gets compassionate when it's in her own family--the trans son. Those politicians are spineless--all of them, including McCain, who merely saved his party from a worse fate next election. Lots of people are sick and lots of people are facing their illnesses with bravery. Facing Trump with bravery is a different matter.

Not one of the currently elected Republicans rebuked Mr. Trump by name. Not one.

You missed Alaskan Senators Murkowski and Sullivan.

Just like Trump,
Republican politicians mouth a lot of grandiose words
then do nothing to help ordinary people.

Once a Republican, never again a good American.

Did any of those Republicans currently serving in Congress demand that Trump resign? No. Have they started impeachment proceedings? No.

Their words are MEANINGLESS. Just a lot of blah blah blah Ginger (thanks to Gary Larson for the best cartoon ever). Dogs, and Trump, only hear their names.

https://desertdemocrat.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/blah-blah-blah-blah-ginger/

What a shame that a sitting president equivocates the forces of hate with those of justice. Every decent-minded person, in whatever capacity they have, will need to speak up that much louder to counter the wrong coming from our highest office.

I guess it must depend on what is meant by "many". Compared to the total number of Congressmen, governors, voters who voted for 45, mayors, and all the other Republican elected officials, and the total GOP, in fact, I doubt that "many" have "distanced themselves". Please, give us a valid comparison.........

Talk is cheap. And if anyone out there thinks these guys won't gleefully jump back on the Trump bandwagon are fooling themselves. Look at Graham. The morning of the ACA vote he appeared with McCain and two other Senators to tear apart the Repub replace plan. There wasn't anything good about it according to Graham. And how did he vote? He voted for replacement. Save Murkowski and Collins the rest of them have never been able to find their spines when it counts.

ONE evangelical leader? Christian evangelicism = biggest scam going. Well, maybe second biggest.

On 8/18 Rodney Frelinghuysen (NJ-11, Chair of House Appropriations Committee) finally published a strong statement on his web site (https://frelinghuysen.house.gov/top-news/enews-8182017-end-the-hatred-wi..., calling out the President by name:

"I condemn the President’s repeated attempts to evenly distribute blame for clashes between white nationalists and the demonstrators who oppose them.

To be clear, the President’s assertion that there were two legitimate “sides” in Charlottesville last weekend is flatly wrong. There can be no comparison – no equivalency - between white supremacists, KKK members and other racist fringe groups and those who showed up to challenge their bigotry, racism and anti-semitism.

Rather than employing words that divide us, Donald Trump must recognize that we are one people: the American people."

It took him too long to do so, but what he finally said was proper.

How disappointing that out of 294 Republicans in the House and Senate only these 24 had the courage to speak up to denounce Trump's remarks. As the leader of the Republican Party, he speaks for that party. Are we to assume that silence equals agreement, and the remaining 270 approved of his remarks? Does this mean the Republican Party accepts the legitimacy of the White Supremacist movement as a viable political constituency?

Congressional leaders are cowards who won't see both sides of the story. RESIGN!