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ABC’s This Week wasted little on Sunday painting the violence of the last few days as the product of the President they couldn’t stand. Host and Clinton lackey George Stephanopoulos stated as much at the top of the program. After giving a rundown of the violence of the week, he declared it all occurred “against the backdrop of the ugliest political climate in modern times. At the center, an unapologetically incendiary President untrammeled by traditional norms of civility.”
Blaming President Trump’s heated words for the physical violence of others was the undercurrent of the entire program. As Stephanopoulos brought on the “powerhouse roundtable”, the network’s favorite faux Republican Matthew Dowd unloaded on Trump. “I think much of it has been predictable in this,” he claimed as he quoted Jedi Master Yoda on the path to the dark side. “And I think what he has done over the course of the last few years is help foment this.”
Dowd would assert he wasn’t blaming the bombs and the shootings on the President. Yet, a short time later, he argued that when you put the pieces together it was clear the synagogue shooter was influenced by the President.
“I'm not Michael Angelo but I can paint by number. When you string together the President's actions and you string together the President’s words and you string together all those things he’s done,” he told the rest of the panel.
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