Following the horrific domestic terrorist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday, the media was on the hunt to cast blame on someone and lump them in with the racist that carried out the attack. And during Sunday’s This Week on ABC, commentator Cokie Roberts found her target in President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. According to her, they were to blame because they were sending silent signals to white supremacists to empower them.

“The President has to share responsibility,” she exclaimed. “The fact is, through that campaign, he blew all kind of whistles that those of us who grew up in the Jim Crow south, like I did, recognized immediately.”

“It was just calling out to these white supremacists who then felt empowered by it,” Roberts added.

Her fellow ABC commentator, Matthew Dowd, seemed to agree. Although, he spread the blame around and seeming to suggest that anyone who wanted to get tough on immigration played a role. “Who shares responsibility? It's not only the man, it’s not only the movement but anybody that points their fingers at Mexicans and Muslims shares responsibility in this,” he asserted.

Moderator George Stephanopoulos played off of Roberts saying: “To the point of those emboldened by the President’s words,” as he proceeded to read a recent statement from Klansman David Duke in support of the President. “The President can't seem to find words to denounce this,” he spat. Stephanopoulos’ statement was not entirely accurate, because, during the election, candidate Trump rejected Duke's support, albeit after some pressure.

A short time later, Roberts set her sights on Attorney General Jeff Sessions as she continued the debunked smears of him being racists. “Jeff Sessions has gone backwards on a lot of things having to do with race,” she falsely declared. “Taking a look at the Obama federal investigations of how police treat people of color. He's saying, let's not do that anymore.”

She then lied and claimed Sessions was all for keeping black voters suppressed. “He's doing a lot of things that send signals to these white supremacists,” she added.

Robert’s accusations against Attorney General Sessions had zero footing in reality. In fact, Sessions had a record of combating the KKK in his home state of Alabama. When Sessions was a state prosecutor, he sought the death penalty for a Klansman who killed an African-American man in a hate crime. And as Alabama’s Attorney General he drove the state’s Klan chapter into bankruptcy.

These baseless accusations against Sessions and condemnation of Trump only serve to further divide the American people. Their hyperbolic knee-jerk reactions stir up more hate and bitterness while directing it at the wrong people.

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