WASHINGTON: US Attorney General Jeff Sessions says that this weekend’s White supremacist ‘evil attack’ in a town near the American capital was an act of domestic terrorism.

The phrase could annoy his boss, President Donald Trump, who has ignored demands from both Democratic and Republican lawmakers to use to describe the melees on Saturday as acts of terrorism.

Although Mr Session described the Saturday attacks in Charlottesville, Virginia, as acts of terrorism, he strongly defended President Trump’s response to the violence.

“His initial statement on this roundly and unequivocally condemned hatred and violence and bigotry,” Mr Sessions said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” as part of his appearances on morning shows.

Published in Dawn, August 16th, 2017