Oprah Winfrey convened a group of voters to examine the nation’s bitter political and cultural divide in her first segment as a special contributor to CBS’ “60 Minutes.”
Winfrey held a roundtable session with 14 voters from West Michigan, evenly split between Donald Trump supporters and detractors. Winfrey pressed the group on Trump’s track record as President, whether his tweets are “modern presidential,” the need for limitations on free speech, and their perceptions of Trump vs. Hillary Clinton voters.
The group also debated the question of whether Trump’s response to the white supremacist violence last month in Charlottesville, Va., was appropriate or whether he wrongly sought to draw a moral equivalency between far left protestors and the hate groups that organized the rally.
The responses underscored the depth…
