The following articke by James Hohmann with Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve was posted on the Washington Post website August 16, 2017:
THE BIG IDEA: President Trump has a troubling tendency to blame “both sides.”
Showing that the remarks he delivered from a White House teleprompter on Monday were hollow and insincere, Trump yesterday revived his initial claim that “both sides” are to blame for the horrific violence at a white supremacist rally over the weekend in Charlottesville.
Going rogue during an event at Trump Tower that was supposed to be about infrastructure, the president said there are “two sides to a story.” He then attacked counterprotesters for acting “very, very violently” as they came “with clubs in their hand” at the neo-Nazis and KKK members who were protesting the planned removal of a Robert E. Lee statue. “You had a group on one side that was bad, and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent, and nobody wants to say that,” Trump said. “Do they have any semblance of guilt? Do they have any problem? I think they do!” Continue reading “False moral equivalency is not a bug of Trumpism. It’s a feature.”