Paul Begala: Trump ‘Doesn’t Know Robert E. Lee from Bruce Lee’

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BEGALA: "So there’s no question about that, in my mind. But the President is not really talking — he doesn’t know Robert E. Lee from Bruce Lee. Oh, kung fu movies! No, he’s sending, not just dog whistles, he’s sending foghorns to the ultra-right fringe, to the racist right. And it stains his entire party. His party was founded by Abraham Lincoln. They have such a proud history on issues of race. And he has taken them into such a dark place on this. And he’s doing it on purpose. He has chosen, and I think it’s a good point about broadening. Any other strategist would say, you need to broaden your support, he’s chosen to deepen it. It may work. I don’t know, it’s not what I would do. I think it’s bad politics, but I know it’s bad history and I know it’s bad ethics, because he seems to be drawn to these racially-divisive issues."