Trump and Jacob Blake

The president announced that he would not be meeting with members of Blake’s family during his Tuesday visit to Kenosha, Wis., after speaking with the family’s pastor because the family wanted to have “lawyers involved.”

"I spoke with the pastor, wonderful man, the family’s pastor," Trump told reporters on Monday. "I thought it would be better not to do anything where there are lawyers involved."

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Blake's father later told CNN he didn't know who the president spoke with.

“We don’t have a family pastor,” Jacob Blake Sr. said.

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The family’s legal team, including civil rights lawyer Ben Crump, clarified in a statement after the CNN interview that Trump reached out to the pastor of Jacob Blake’s mother, Julia Jackson, “to arrange a phone conversation with her.”

“He appropriately referred the White House to the legal team, but, as President Trump acknowledged during his televised briefing, he declined to have a call if Ms. Jackson’s legal team monitored the call,” the statement read.

  The Hill

Why do you suppose that would be?

“If the call had occurred, Ms. Jackson was prepared to ask President Trump to watch the video of Mr. Blake’s shooting and to do what she has asked all of America to do -- examine your heart.”

Ha! Does she actually think he has a heart?

[Jacob Blake's uncle, Justin Blake,] [...] was asked about unrest in Kenosha and other parts of the country following the police shooting of his nephew and the violence seen at some demonstrations.

“How could they not be feeding on violence when the man in the White House is steady drumming it up? Did you not think it would not trickle down to the streets? It has,” he said in an interview with the station. “So, we have the opportunity to control the narrative as the Blake family."

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“We believe he incited this violence. And that's why it's flooded over. People think they have the right to do anything. And when you think you have the right to shoot a young man seven times in a back, you're wrong and justice has to come your way,” he said.

"In history's past, when things of this nature happen, the man or woman in the White House try to rally the nation to one center point for the best of the country," Blake said. "And we haven't heard that."

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Blake said that while Trump has not been in touch with his family following the shooting of his nephew, Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), have, which he thanked them for.

“They did reach out and speak with our brother,” he told the station. “I kept missing their call. I wasn't able to catch up to him, but they spoke with our brother for prolonged conversation and indicated some of the things they would like to get done and accomplished — bills, laws and so forth — if they were to get into office.”

  The Hill

Maybe they should have foregone the politics.