On Fox Special Report tonight Ingraham and Krauthammer almost were shouting at each other. I'm usually on the side of the good doctor on most issues, but he was attempting to say Trump didn't really mean what he said about putting aside violence and loving your fellow citizens. He heavily criticized Trump for not condemning Nazis and WNs two days ago.
Ingraham's blood began to boil and she berated Charles for thinking he knew what's in Trump's heart. It got pretty testy.
I tended to agree with Ingraham that Trump's original statement was satisfactory....and I'm no big fan of Trump.
Whatever issues I have with Trump, he seemed sincere both times. If he didn't say anything, he would have been blasted. After his original statement he explicitly condemned Nazis and their ilk. Actually, he had dismissed David Duke last year.
The bigger problem which Charles missed is that the media is attempting to make it seem all the violence is coming from the right when most of it has come from the left. Conservatives were getting attacked and shouted down before Trump was running for president.
The media is trying to get Trump to admit that he is causing all the violence...which is not true. Trump said some unfortunate things during the campaign, but in all the cases he was directing his remarks at people disrupting his speeches. He never told people to go out and attack political opponents.
I'll criticize Trump when he's wrong, but I don't think he was wrong this time.