"A wound inflicted upon a single member of our community is a wound inflicted upon us all," Trump said at the start of his address -- his first prime-time broadcast on a specific policy issue since being elected President last November. "When one part of America hurts, we all hurt. And when one citizen suffers an injustice we all suffer together."

"I will tell you something," Trump said at that press event at Trump Tower. "I watched those very closely, much more closely than you people watched it. And you have -- you had a group on one side that was bad, and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent, and nobody wants to say that, but I'll say it right now."

His comments that day -- not to mention Trump's insistence that there was violence "on many sides" in comments he made on the Saturday of the Charlottesville protests -- led to widespread condemnation from all sides of the political spectrum. It also took private chatter about Trump's stability and competence into the public eye, with Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, a Republican, voicing those worries late late week

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