Donald Trump’s rallies have become magnets for violence and violent rhetoric but when clashes broke out at his Chicago rally Friday night, Trump suggested it was President Obama’s fault. Fox’s Greta Van Susteren was there to help Trump cover up his own record of inciteful behavior and the two completely “forgot” that earlier that same day, a reporter filed assault charges against Trump’s campaign manager.

During his 16:38 minute phone interview with Van Susteren, Trump repeatedly portrayed himself as someone concerned about public safety.

He claimed he decided to cancel the rally at a University of Illinois arena, after consulting law enforcement, because, he said, “I don’t want to see people get hurt and I don’t want to see people get hurt or worse.”

As it happens, Chicago police and the university police each insist they had nothing to do with the decision. In fact, the CPD thought it could handle any problems that might have arisen at the rally:

CPD spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told the Associated Press that police never told the Trump campaign there was a security threat at the venue. He said the department had sufficient manpower on the scene to handle any situation. Guglielmi said the university’s police department also did not recommend that Trump call off the event. The decision was made “independently” by the campaign, according to Guglielmi.

But Van Susteren seemed uninterested in verifying Trump’s account.

Nor did she wonder where Trump’s concern for people’s safety has been all this time. Just one day before, The Huffington Post reported, “Racial slurs, nasty rhetoric and violence at Trump rallies have become commonplace against protesters, bystanders, and reporters. Assaults are committed not only by rowdy Trump fans, but by the staff he employs to keep the events safe. But rather than denounce these incidents, Trump is making them part of his brand, and uses them to rev up crowds.”

Earlier that day, Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields filed assault charges against Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski. The night before, Trump shrugged off her allegations by saying he thought she made it up.

Yet Van Susteren gave Trump a pass on the violence he has already been associated with.

Trump chalked up the rally chaos to our “divided country” and then implied that was President Obama’s fault.

TRUMP: You know we have such a divided country now. It’s been so divided under this president and I’ve been saying it for a long time. I’ve been witnessing it in so many different forms. It’s just something that has to be straightened out. …Look, we have a very divided nation. We have a tremendously divided nation and I’ve been saying it for a long time. …In many ways it’s divided and one of the ways it’s divided is white/black. We have so many sets of divisions and hopefully we’ll be able to bring it together. I’m a unifier. President Obama has not been a unifier, he has been a divider. I’m a unifier, I’ll bring people together.

“Do you play any role in that division or not?” Van Susteren asked.

“I don’t think so,” Trump said. He again not-so-subtly hinted that it’s Obama’s fault. “I represent a large group of people that have great anger. And they’re not angry people but they have anger at the stupidity of what’s happening in our country,” Trump said.

Van Susteren did mildly challenge Trump on his rhetoric. “When you use tough language when people break up your events, like “punch in the nose” or “get that person out of here,” are you sort of giving ammunition to protesters who say that you’re the bully?”

“Well, I don’t think so because, frankly, you know we haven’t really had a problem,” Trump said.

Instead of correcting the record, Van Susteren went on to criticize the protesters. “This is a protest, as I understand it, against your free speech,” she said. “They’re using free speech – they have a right to peaceful protest – to try to shut you down from your free speech.”

Van Susteren neatly ignored how Trump has been dealing blow after blow to the First Amendment lately.

She also somehow “forgot” that she was all for these kinds of protests when it was the Tea Party disrupting Democratic town halls.

Watch it below, from the March 11 On The Record.