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Trump has irreversibly fucked this up. It was a perfect opportunity to indisputably distance himself from the alt-right pricks and isolate them as their own, impotent cause and even if he was waiting to make a statement for all the facts to come in, there was at the very least enough available for him to issue stern and general condemnation of the alt-right and supremacists and release more specifics as more info came in.

And even if there were antifa there solely to start and escalate violence, the nazis having killed someone makes them the sole party to condemn. They may not be solely responsible, but they are absolutely the only ones who should be condemned the same god damn week of the event.

I don't think it is malice on his part, rather I think it is stupidity and severe lack of leadership and speaking skills. I also think it is childish stubbornness to not want to immediate do what he thinks the media wants him to do and what the vast, vast majority of the country wants him to do. That is not a quality we should tolerate in a leader.

I don't think Trump is as bad as the media constantly portrays him and I don't see his "both sides" or "fine people" comments as supporting the neo-nazis, no matter how stupid, untimely, and unnecessary the comments were.

My thoughts on this pretty much mirror Ben Shapiro's, who released a 40 or so minute segment on this and gave a very objective and bipartisan perspective on this. Even if there was violence coming from both sides, which there was, there is a time and place to bring it up, and within days of the disgusting tragedy was absolutely not it.