The word she's looking for is "absolve". How, precisely, Trump is to blame for a violent rioter assaulting someone with a Trump t-shirt on is a little tough to see.
It’s similar to how the U.N. and the “international community” blames both the Israelis and the Palestinians for violence caused by Palestinians.
By now the media is so predictable that no one believes anything they say. Trump supporters have heard it all, seen it all...and thanks to Trump know a whole lot more about the game than we ever did. We know what the articles will say about his trip to Cali and what the broadcast people will say. So we just tune them out.