John Avlon: Trump ‘Has a Particular Impulse ... To Go After Women and Critics of Color’

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CUOMO: “But he’s delivered other calls that has gone well. We’re going to have a widow on today, who was going to say that she was comforted by the president. I don’t know why he needs to keep generating this negativity.” [crosstalk]
AVLON: “He doesn’t — that’s my point. He doesn’t. But he keeps doing it. And he does seem to have a particular impulse sometimes to go after women and critics of color. That may be a factor here. We’ve got to find out. The other issue, obviously, is after this terrible incident that happened in Niger, there is a great delay. And he takes credit for making all the calls. And then this one really seemed to have backfired from the family’s perspective. So the question is, do they want — they just passed a budget resolution. They’re trying to do tax reform. Do they want day five of this story, because the president keeps making that inevitable by tweeting about it in unhinged ways.”