‘Wow’: Stunned TV Hosts Reacted in Real Time to Trump<br />“That was something else.”<br />For a few visceral minutes on Tuesday, television’s partisan lines dissolved as dumbfounded anchors reacted on-air — some in clearly personal ways — to Mr. Trump’s fiery remarks, in which he seemed to cast equal blame on white supremacists<br />and the demonstrators who marched against them during the weekend’s deadly clash in Charlottesville, Va.<br />On Fox News, normally a redoubt of Trump support, the 5 p.m. co-hosts of “The Specialists” shook their heads, with the anchor Guy Benson saying<br />that Mr. Trump “lost me” when he insisted that some “very fine people” participated in the white supremacist rally.<br />But she also offered a partial defense, saying of Mr. Trump, “He made some points that were factually right.”<br />Mr. Krauthammer retorted, “What Trump did today was a moral disgrace,” and said<br />that the president had broken from his predecessors who recognized the history of civil rights<br />Other Americans learned of the events through online sites more sympathetic to Mr.<br />Trump — including Breitbart News, which heralded the news conference as a triumph.<br />“To anybody out there watching today who is confused and thinks, ‘I thought<br />that the Klan and neo-Nazis and white supremacists, I thought there was no debate about this thing among civilized people’ — there isn’t a debate about it,” he said.
