statement. it isn t the end of a difficult, difficult chapter in american history. eric, weigh in on the first reaction and what it says about the president s reflexes. well, first of all, excuse me, i think that what president what president trump did on saturday and the aftermath of these heinous events was pretty reprehensible. it was as easy as pie to say, look, what happened, it was a white supremacist gesture and we reject this as the basis and logic of american democracy and i as a president have no truck with that. instead, he led with ambiguity. he led with false parallels and equivalen equivalencies, trying to draw a fast and hard parallel between black lives matter protesters and others who were against the display of violence on the bigoted right, and those who are