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In the aftermath of the Charlottesville attack, two of the Big Three Networks (ABC and NBC) were quick to cast blame on President Trump for the violence and the lives lost on Sunday. To round out the Big Three, CBS brought up the rear during Face the Nation where guest Jamelle Bouie argued that if one was looking for the “roots” of the attack, “you don’t have to look very far from the White House.”
The root of Bouie hyperbolic accusation was a question from moderator John Dickerson, who teed up his Slate colleague to smear the President. “Jamelle, the President said he wants to find out what happened in Charlottesville, and seek for the roots of this. What's your reaction to that,” he asked.
“That if you're looking for the roots why white supremacist and neo-Nazis felt emboldened to March on a college town, you don’t have to look very far from the White House,” Bouie asserted. “You just have to look at Trump and his refusal to, at any stage condemn these people.”
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