After waiting two days before finally giving a half-assed condemnation of the horrific events in Charlottesville, Virginia last weekend, yesterday (Tuesday) Trump reverted back to his original "both sides are to blame" position.
The reversal of his position reveals his true feelings about the matter and falsely implies a moral equivalency between the hate speech and terroristic act of murder by the alt-right with the unfortunate violence of those protesting the hateful rhetoric. His false equivalency clearly empowers and emboldens the alt-right. “Thank you President Trump for your honesty & courage to tell the truth,” David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan leader, responded on Twitter after the president's remarks.
Keith Olbermann (above), in his usual prosecutorial tone, explicitly lays out the problem here and the failure of leadership in the Trump presidency.
The video below seems like it's from forever ago, but it's actually less than a year old. The very fact that it seems so dated reflects how much else we've been through as a nation in the past 10 months.
The reversal of his position reveals his true feelings about the matter and falsely implies a moral equivalency between the hate speech and terroristic act of murder by the alt-right with the unfortunate violence of those protesting the hateful rhetoric. His false equivalency clearly empowers and emboldens the alt-right. “Thank you President Trump for your honesty & courage to tell the truth,” David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan leader, responded on Twitter after the president's remarks.
Keith Olbermann (above), in his usual prosecutorial tone, explicitly lays out the problem here and the failure of leadership in the Trump presidency.
The video below seems like it's from forever ago, but it's actually less than a year old. The very fact that it seems so dated reflects how much else we've been through as a nation in the past 10 months.
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