Barnicle on Trump: ‘It’s a Toxic Presidency Out in the Country When You Talk To Many People’

‘The country is not, I don’t think, anecdotally as divided as we think it is’

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BARNICLE: “As you know, I have just spent five days in Lost Angeles, at an event, the World Series, that became kind of trivial on Saturday morning after the events of Pittsburgh, after the murder of Jewish people in Pittsburgh. As you know, the World Series attracts people from all over the country. And this is anecdotal, but it blends in with what Steve and John have both been saying. You talk to people from all over the country. Whether they voted for Donald Trump or not, they realize that this country is a community of people who come from different cultures, different countries. Nowhere else is it as prominent in this nation as it is in the basin, the Los Angeles Basin. And you talk to them today and they want to lower the Bunsen burner flame that this president has done to the country. They want calmness restored. It’s a toxic presidency out in the country when you talk to many, many people. It’s dangerous. And in some cases, danger turns to lethalness, and you get what occurred in Pittsburgh. The country is not, I don’t think, anecdotally as divided as we think it is. People want community restored. They want calmness restored. And John Heilemann pointed out, this particular president has injected himself into the campaign to the point where he said, 'I’m on the ballot. This is a vote for me.' So we’re going to find out a lot about the country, the direction of the country going forward next Tuesday.”

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