Last August, Hillary Clinton tried to warn us that—through his words, actions, and associates—@realDonaldTrump was emboldening the worst elements of our society.
But, her emails.
Now, one year later, Hillary's warning has proved all too prescient.
This week, in the aftermath of a right-wing domestic terrorist attack that resulted in one dead and 19 injured, Trump showed the world his true colors, and it wasn't pretty.
Arguing that some white supremacists are "very fine people," Trump surrendered all of the moral authority inherent in the presidency.
And then, for good measure, he took up the banner of the Confederacy.
As the saying goes, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Morning lineup:
Meet the Press: Former Director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Andrew Young; President of the Southern Poverty Law Center Richard Cohen; Author Mark Bray; Roundtable: TBA.
Face The Nation: Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA); Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC); President of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Sherilyn Ifill; Former White Supremacist Christian Picciolini; Elle Reeve (Vice News); Roundtable: Julie Pace (Associated Press), Jamelle Bouie (Slate), Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic) & Reihan Salam (National Review).
This Week: TBA; Roundtable: TBA.
Fox News Sunday: Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD); Former Trump Deputy Campaign Manager David Bossie; Roundtable: Charles Hurt (Washington Times), Bob Woodward (Washington Post), Former Member of the National Security Council Gillian Turner & Juan Williams (Fox News).
State of the Union: Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA); Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R); Rep. Scott Taylor (R-VA); Roundtable: Nina Turner (Our Revolution), Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), Former South Carolina State Rep. Bakari Sellers (D) & Rep. Scott Taylor (R-VA).
Evening lineup:
60 Minutes will feature: a report on the difficulty of preventing terrorist attacks, even when the terrorists are known to the FBI (preview); a report on the use autonomous drones by the military (preview); and, a report on the harrowing journey of a boy who got lost at 5-years-old and 1,000 miles from home and didn't know his name or address (preview).
Late night shows:
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Monday–Friday: Reruns.
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Monday: Joshua Green (Bloomberg Businessweek).
Tuesday: Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN).
Wednesday: Bryan Stephenson (Equal Justice Initiative) & Singer Andra Day.
Thursday: Former NFL Player/Actor Nnamdi Asomugha & Subject of the Film "Crown Heights" Colin Warner.
Elsewhere...
Fox & Friends host Abby Huntsman engaged in some false equivalency.
On Wednesday morning, one of the president's favorite shows, Fox & Friends, played host to a truly remarkable sight: Fox News host Abby Huntsman equivocating about Charlottesville while one of her guests, Dr. Wendy Osefo, was in tears.
Huntsman started the segment simply enough, describing the controversy over Charlottesville and Confederate statues and memorials as a "hot-button issue" before asking Osefo what she thought. Osefo, who is black, responded with evident emotion about the "hatred" and "white supremacy" witnessed in the last several days.
Huntsman then addressed her other guest, a black GOP pundit named Gianno Caldwell, asking him a decidedly leading question predicated on the idea that "there are good people on both sides" of the Confederate monument debate ― in essence, the same basic tact Trump took in his fiercely criticized press conference on Tuesday.
Meanwhile...
A guest on Fox & Friends claimed the Confederate flag is no different than the rainbow flag.
Right-wing author Star Parker on Tuesday condemned people who go around brandishing the Confederate flag — largely because they reminded her of people who brandish the LGBT pride flag.
During an interview on Fox & Friends, Parker said that it was "ironic" that so many people on the left wanted to bring down Confederate flags and monuments when they were simultaneously advocating for the rainbow flag that's a symbol for LGBT rights.
"You know what's really interesting and really incredible irony here is the same people that are demanding that the Confederate flag comes down are the same people that are insisting that the rainbow flag goes up," Parker said, via Media Matters. "These two flags represent the exact same thing. That certain people groups are not welcome here."
During the segment, Parker also praised President Donald Trump for condemning "both sides" of the Charlottesville protests for violence on Saturday, and said that he did a good job of getting the country to "calm down" in the aftermath of the violent protests that rocked the Virginia college town over the weekend.
And, in other news...
Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, argued that he can't be racist because he has black friends.
On Wednesday, Trump's attorney, Michael Cohen, took to Twitter to assure everyone that even though he supports the president — and, by extension, supports the president's lack of outright condemnation of the alt-right — he's not a racist.
Cohen notes he is the son of a Holocaust survivor and will not tolerate "#racism." And, just to drive that point home, he included a half-dozen photos of himself with black people.
Among the people included in the photographs in Cohen’s Twitter version of the good ol' "I'm not a racist, I have black friends" line are Trump political aide Omarosa Manigault, vloggers Diamond and Silk, and pastor Darrell Scott. Scott weighed in on Twitter supporting Cohen earlier on Wednesday. "My Brother; who I've talked to every day for the last 6 years!!! This is no photo op... these relationships are REAL!!!"
Oy vey.
– Trix