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William Cohen on Trump's "disheartening" response to Charlottesville (571 hits)


William Cohen on Trump's "disheartening" response to Charlottesville
By Katiana Krawchenko -- CBS News

President Trump's rhetoric in the days following last Saturday's violence in Charlottesville, Va., was "very discouraging" and "disheartening," former Clinton defense secretary and former Republican senator William Cohen told CBS News' "The Takeout" podcast.

"It's very discouraging to have the president fail to distinguish between those who are carrying torches" and other protesters, Cohen said of the president's reaction to mayhem spurred by white supremacists and neo-Nazis last weekend. "Years ago - the '20s, '40s, - they were wearing hoods and carrying the torches. They were burning black churches carrying those torches -- lynching, setting churches on fire with African-Americans trapped inside."

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