Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather continued his scathing attack on President Donald Trump, calling his recent tweet on the Charlottesville attacks “provocative and divisive.”
“When Trump criticizes ‘all types of racism’ he's using false equivalence to wink at those who peddle in the distortions of white grievance,” Rather tweeted. “It makes a mockery of our history and our present. It's not calming and unifying. it's provocative and divisive. And it's intentional.”
Sunday marked the one-year anniversary of the violent white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., that left three dead and dozens injured. Trump said the riots resulted in “senseless death and division” and called on Americans to “come together as a nation.”
He also said he condemned “all types of racism and acts of violence.”
Rather’s comments come a week after he blasted Trump for his insults of NBA star LeBron James and CNN anchor Don Lemon. Trump described Lemon as “the dumbest man on television” and said he “made LeBron look smart, which isn’t easy to do.”
“This is apparently what the President of the United States feels the need to share with the world at what should be long past his bedtime? It's a disgrace. It's racist. And it's the product of petty but dangerous hatreds. I repeat this is the PRESIDENT??!?” Rather tweeted.
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