On Monday’s “CNN Newsroom,” journalist Cokie Roberts argued that presumptive GOP presidential nominee has created “a lot of hatred and hostility between groups in this country, after a half century of us trying to bring people together.”
Roberts said, that Trump has had “a very hateful impact.” And “What he’s done is create a lot of hatred and hostility between groups in this country, after a half century of us trying to bring people together. I mean, Brooke, I come out of the Jim Crow South. I’ve lived through this history, and had a cross burned on my parents’ lawn because of supporting civil rights. Having this whole — two generations trying to bring America together and be one country, and to suddenly have some — a leader come in and try to break that all apart and pit groups against each other, is very discouraging.”
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