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Following the horrific domestic terrorist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday, the media was on the hunt to cast blame on someone and lump them in with the racist that carried out the attack. And during Sunday’s This Week on ABC, commentator Cokie Roberts found her target in President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. According to her, they were to blames because they were sending silent signals to white supremacists to empower them.
“The President has to share responsibility,” she exclaimed. “The fact is, through that campaign, he blew all kind of whistles that those of us who grew up in the Jim Crow south, like I did, recognized immediately.”
“It was just calling out to these white supremacists who then felt empowered by it,” Roberts added.
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