Gillian Turner: Trump ‘Made a Miscalculated Move’ with His Response to Charlottesville

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TURNER: So, the media largely accused the president this week of dithering in his response to what happened in Charlottesville last week. But I actually disagree with that analysis of the situation. I think President Trump made a calculated, strategic decision about how he was going to approach what had happened and what his response was going to be like. Unfortunately, it is misguided. I think it was a miscalculation. But if you’re the president of the United States and you’re facing a nation that is internally divided, that is warning among itself, I think there’s two options in front of you. One is, you can try and bring unity by — and this is appropriate in certain situations, by saying, you know what, everybody shares a certain burden here, everybody factors into the blame. There is nobody who gets out of this scot-free without blood on their hands, without culpability."