I think the AP has misinterpreted Congressman Paul Gosar’s comments about who instigated the violence in Charlottesville.  There were two rallies in Charlottesville on that fateful day.  One was the far-right Unite the Right rally organized by Jason Kessler, a “relative newcomer to the white nationalist scene.”  This group had a permit to hold its rally at the park where the General Lee statue is located.  The rally referred to by Congressman Gosar was a far-left counter-protest organized by an unnamed “person from Occupy Wall Street that was an Obama sympathizer” and allegedly backed by Commie billionaire George Soros.  It had a permit to hold its rally elsewhere in Charlottesville, but the organizers sent its Antifa armed thugs to the General Lee site to confront the white supremacists and that is when the violence erupted.