A week of terror in America culminated Saturday with one of the deadliest anti-Semitic attacks in American history. This followed the double-murder of two African-Americans at a supermarket in Kentucky—a location the white shooter, who reportedly told a white bystander that "whites don't kill whites," settled on after failing to gain entry to a black church—and, of course, the rolling attempted assassinations-by-bomb of prominent Democrats and CNN contributors.
Here is the way the United States president chose to start off this following week:
There is great anger in our Country caused in part by inaccurate, and even fraudulent, reporting of the news. The Fake News Media, the true Enemy of the People, must stop the open & obvious hostility & report the news accurately & fairly. That will do much to put out the flame...
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2018
The president is not interested in, and is probably incapable of, responding to the demands of the current moment. He is not interested in, and is probably incapable of, attempting to turn down the rhetoric in an explosive environment he has largely created.
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