Saturday was marked by bloodshed in Charlottesville, Virginia after an apparent white nationalist plowed into a crowd of counter-protesters in a blatant attack. And on the morning after, NBC’s Sunday Today put President Trump in their sights as they unloaded on him while appearing to pin the blame for the attack on him. At one point even claiming he “enjoys” the support he gets from the bigots who were rallying in Virginia.

“President Trump condemned the violence there on Saturday but he did not specifically speak to the white nationalism that was on display,” complained Anchor Willie Geist as he was getting ready to hand the report off to Correspondent Kelly O’Donnell. “The President also did not respond to questions, including one about the political support he enjoys among some white supremacists,” she chided.

One of Geist’s guests was Michael Signer, the mayor of Charlottesville. Geist was very interested in hearing how Signer would slam the President. “Mr. Mayor, you did thank the President of the United States for condemning the violence broadly. But you have been critical of him beforehand,” he hyped. “You say, quote, ‘I place the blame for a lot of what's happening in America, a lot of what you’re seeing, at the doorstep of the White House.’” Feigning curiosity, Geist asked what he meant by that.

Signer was eager to lay the blame at Trump’s feet:

Look, there's an old saying when you dance with the devil, the devil changes you. These groups, these influences in American politics prior to a couple years ago, they were around but they in the shadows … We saw a conscious decision to dance with all these devils in our politics. We saw them on full display. Now they're comfortable to come out in open daylight.

Meet the Press moderator, Chuck Todd joined Geist to add his two cents to the bashing session. “Look, you can't say it's anything other than deliberate,” Todd asserted, complaining that the President denounced the violence ‘from all sides,’ and not just the white nationalists. He also suggested that Trump’s Justice Department wouldn’t have opened a civil rights investigation had it not been for “Ted Cruz basically pressuring Justice Department to do what they did…”

NBC’s Hallie Jackson pretended not to know what violence was occurring from all sides. “And made this vague allusion to violence between protesters and counter protesters. And again, even after getting pushed didn't specify what violence they were talking about,” she dismissed.

Geist questioned Trump’s sincerity and seriousness in his address after the attack. “You’re talking about Nazis, you’re talking about the KKK, you’re talking about white supremacists,” he sneered. “If you cannot come out and quickly and readily and quickly condemn that, what can you do?”

To that, Todd parroted Congressman Mark Stanford who said Trump had “unleashed a demon” on us all with his presidential campaign. Todd ended his comments by asserting “he, more than anybody else has a responsibility to” exorcise the demon from the country.

This grotesque and hyperbolic language has no place in the rational conversation that needs to happen right now. It only serves to drive down the discourse and stir up more of the same kind of hate we’ve been seeing.

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