Jake Tapper: The one group that Trump won't attack

it is a point of pride for president Trump that he calls things as he sees
them the moment he feels the need to weigh in two seconds ago when our White
House correspondent Jim Acosta asked the president when he was going to hold the
press conference he had promised the president said this rolls indeed a reel
of the president's public statements and Twitter archive are a veritable gold
mine of attacks against those whose behavior of which he disapproves let's
go to the videotape from the many tweets expressing disapproval of how actress
Kristen Stewart broke up with actor Robert Pattinson to rant after rant
against Rosie O'Donnell from suggesting John McCain and other POWs aren't heroes
because they got captured to mocking a disabled reporter I don't know what I
said I don't remember from attacking a former Miss Universe to a gold star
family from the cast of Hamilton two judges including the ethnicity of one
specific job he's a Mexican he's not from in my opinion from Indiana from
chastising his own attorney general to the Senate Majority Leader but I said
Mitch get to work there is seemingly no one who is immune to the president's ire
a new TV ad calls those of us who cover him here again his enemy the president's
enemies don't want him to succeed there are two exceptions of course Vladimir
Putin and it would seem white supremacists the president seems to
struggle when called upon to specifically and unequivocally
criticized those groups today two days after that horrific hate-filled rally by
Nazis the Ku Klux Klan white supremacist and the alt-right resulted in the death
of counselor protestor Heather hire allegedly killed by one of these racists
who plowed his car into a crowd as well as two virginia state troopers
lieutenant HJ cullen and trooper pilot burke mm Bates whose helicopter crashed
as they patrolled near the protests finally two days later President Trump
condemned some of these miscreants by name racism is evil and those who cause
violence in its name are criminals and thugs including the KKK neo-nazis white
supremacist and other hate groups that are repugnant
to everything we hold dear as Americans now the President had to attempt this
do-over of a condemnation because the first time he spoke on this issue on
Saturday he embraced the notion that both the Nazis and those protesting the
Nazis were equally at fault we condemn in the strongest possible terms this
egregious display of hatred bigotry and violence on many sides on many sides now
the moral equivalence and refusal to single out this particular vile crowd of
bigots spewing hatred by name was received warmly on the websites of these
hate groups no condemnation at all wrote one person on a neo-nazi site really
really good but it was all too much for Republican officials who took to Twitter
and the airwaves to essentially beg President Trump to do the right thing
and call this white supremacism this white nationalism evil and let the
country here let the world hear it it's something that needs to come from the
Oval Office and this White House needs to do it today
it took another day and this afternoon the President did it but we are all left
to wonder why did it take so long this morning the president was on Twitter
attacking in full force as is his want among his targets the CEO a
pharmaceutical company Merck Ken Frazier what was his offense he stepped down
from the president's manufacturing council saying quote America's leaders
must honor our fundamental values by clearly rejecting expressions of hatred
bigotry and group supremacy the president of course found time to
respond to that even before 9:00 a.m. now that Ken Frazier of Merck farmer has
resigned from presidents manufacturing Council he will have more time to lower
ripoff drug prices is it easier for President Trump to criticize Ken Frazier
than it is for him to criticize the Klan is it easier for him to attack US
intelligence agencies after a story he didn't like leaked earlier this year the
president tweeted quote intelligence agencies should never have allowed this
fake news to leak into the public one last shot at me are we living in Nazi
Germany the president asked why for the president does it seem easier to suggest
US intelligence operatives are behaving like Nazis than to call these actual
Nazis Nazis

Jake Tapper: The one group that Trump won't attack

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