Trump Energized Hate Groups, But Sanders Claims He’s A Unifier

Manny Otiko
3 min readOct 30, 2018
Sarah Huckabee Sanders (VOA News)

People who analyze President Donald Trump’s speeches have noticed a shocking uptick in his rate of lying. This is startling considering the president tells an average of eight lies a day.

The latest lie to come out of the White House is the ridiculous idea that Trump has brought the country together. Evidently, the Trump administration is scrambling for cover after last week’s hate crimes, that included white supremacists killing black and Jewish people, and a Trump acolyte mailing pipe bombs to Democratic politicians.

The lie is being coordinated from the White House out to the right-wing echo chamber. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders gave a disastrous press conference on Tuesday, where she rolled out the lie only to be beaten back by an incredulous press corps.

She tried to blame division in the country on the media, not Trump’s rhetoric.

“The president has had a number of moments of bringing the country together,” she said. “You guys have a huge responsibility to play in the divisive nature of this country when 90 percent of the coverage of everything this president does is negative despite the fact that the country is doing extremely well.”

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Manny Otiko

Manny Otiko writes about race, politics and sports. He has been published in Salon and LA Weekly. Follow him on Twitter @mannyotiko.