The cast of Friday’s PBS News Hour expressed serious doubts that President Trump can be the leader the nation needs after the murder of Charlie Kirk. Through a combination of misrepresentations, hypocrisy, and omissions, the assembled trio of anchor Amna Nawaz, New York Times columnist David Brooks, and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart condemned Trump’s response to the crime.
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Capehart was pessimistic, “Can I just say that, in your example, David, with the Civil Rights Movement and Dr. King and all those marchers, they had an ally in the president who was there to, you know, break the passions and to — and to lead. And here, when it comes to what you were just saying, I am not convinced that our current president is the one who's going to be able to do that… I'm not sure President Trump is capable or willing to show that kind of leadership.”
That led Nawaz to wonder, “If not from the president himself, because we have seen mixed messages even in this last two days or so, where does the message have to come from? What has to happen to reach this inflection point you have both noted is necessary in this country?”
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