Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart had an eventful time on Friday’s installment of PBS NewsHour. First, Capehart did his typical thing where he alleged President Trump’s recent press conference included “some of the most racist things I have ever heard come out of the White House.” Later, he said something so absurd that the usually amenable New York Times columnist David Brooks laughed at him when he claimed, “Trust me, the Democrats aren't in trouble.”
Recapping the week that was, Capehart began, “We're 11 days in, and I'm resisting calling this chaos or confusion, because what this really is, is, this is what he ran on, taking a wrecking ball to the government.”
Capehart eventually focused on Trump’s press conference after the Army Black Hawk helicopter-civilian airliner crash as the main source of his indignation, “He does a — fine, he does a moment of silence, and then spends the next 25 minutes saying some of the most racist things I have ever heard come out of the White House, come out of the White House Press Briefing Room, come out of the mouth of the president of the United States, scapegoating anyone who isn't white, Christian, male, straight, for problems in the country, and then deflecting blame onto past presidents, Democratic presidents.”
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