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Heidi Beirich, the director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project, which tracks hate groups, said that the disavowal of Duke, and the time that it took Trump to make that statement, is \"another example where he just kind of pussyfooted around something.\"

Both Beirich and Greenblatt referenced how Trump retweeted posts from users with handles like \"@WhiteGenocideTM\" and how he used memes recycled from white supremacist websites as examples of his lack of separation from such groups during the campaign.

Other instances include the neo-Nazis and white supremacists sometimes spotted at Trump campaign events, a white nationalist super PAC making robocalls on Trump's behalf, and a prominent member of an alt-right group expressing his support of Trump.

Greenblatt noted today on the call how a number of anti-Semitic sentiments were also expressed during the Charlottesville melee this weekend and pointed out that Trump has faced accusations of anti-Semitism before as well.

Two examples of that include the controversy surrounding the Trump campaign’s use of a picture on Twitter that showed Hillary Clinton’s face superimposed on a stack of money and a six-pointed star that many likened to a Star of David, and his administration’s release of a statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day that failed to mention Jews.

Trump has repeatedly denied that he is anti-Semitic or racist, regularly pointing to his close ties to the Jewish community. Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner practices Orthodox Judaism, and the president's daughter Ivanka Trump converted when she married Kushner.

Kushner himself has defended his father-in-law in the past, saying in a statement in July 2016, \"I know that Donald does not at all subscribe to any racist or anti-Semitic thinking. I have personally seen him embrace people of all racial and religious backgrounds. The suggestion that he may be intolerant is not reflective of the Donald Trump I know.\"

And in remarks today, Trump called out hate groups for their behavior, saying, \"Racism is evil. And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the [Ku Klux Klan], neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.\" Trump again did not use the term \"terrorism\" to describe the incident, however.

Today's comments were not enough for Greenblatt, who sees Trump's initial Charlottesville statement as a call to action.

“This wasn’t a subtle dog whistle. This was like a bullhorn and a signal for them to try and rise,” Greenblatt said of Trump’s repeated instances of not taking swift action in condemning such hate groups.

Beirich said that Trump \"waits too long\" to make his public criticisms, and when he does speak out, the earlier message resonates.

\"What is so hard about saying 'I decry the neo-Nazis and the white supremacists that were in Charlottesville,'\" she said, referencing the first statement Trump made about the violence in Virginia on Saturday. \"He went out of his way to not decry neo-Nazis and white supremacists.\"

\"When it comes to white supremacist terrorism, Donald Trump doesn't seem to care,\" she said.

ABC News' Candace Smith contributed to this report.

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