Following President Donald Trump‘s declare in a social media submit honoring Rev. Jesse Jackson that he has been “falsely and constantly known as a racist,” White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was unable to level to examples to again up the president’s claims.
Throughout a Wednesday press briefing earlier than Trump hosts a Black Historical past Month reception on the White Home, Leavitt was requested about Trump’s Tuesday submit and precisely when he had been falsely accused of being racist.
“Are you kidding me?” stated the Trump spokesperson, who stated there have been a “plethora of examples” with out naming any particular occasion.
“I’ll get my staff in that room to start out going by way of the web of radical Democrats all through the years who’ve accused this president, falsely, of being a racist,” stated Leavitt.
The White Home press secretary even known as out reporters within the room, including, “I’m certain there are numerous folks on this room and on community tv throughout the nation who’ve accused him of the identical. In truth, I do know that as a result of I’ve seen it with my very own eyes.”
Leavitt then learn by way of a listing of the Trump administration’s perceived accomplishments because it pertains to Black People, although a lot of it was in a roundabout way focused to Black communities, however somewhat the overall inhabitants.
“The president very a lot seems ahead to having an occasion later this afternoon…to have fun Black Historical past Month and to speak about how his insurance policies are advancing alternative and prosperity for all People by way of report tax cuts, by way of the Trump Accounts that each one People can entry no matter race,” stated the White Home press secretary. “These are an excellent factor for the following technology of People. The president has additionally awarded a whole lot of thousands and thousands of {dollars} in further funding to strengthen instructional outcomes at Traditionally Black Schools and Universities throughout the nation.”
She continued, “The President is defending the hard-earned advantages of the two.4 million Black veterans who honorably served in our nation’s armed forces by lowering the backlog of veterans ready for his or her VA advantages and for his or her residence loans by way of the Division of Veterans Affairs. So there’s a lot this president has accomplished for all People, no matter race, and he has completely been falsely known as and smeared as a racist.”
As for the difficulty over whether or not the president has been falsely accused of being a racist, Leavitt added, “I’m pleased to offer you these receipts.”
Democratic strategist Alencia Johnson just lately instructed theGrio of Trump’s racism, “The actual fact stays the identical that he misplaced housing [racial] discrimination lawsuits in New York, what he did to 5 youngsters within the Nineteen Nineties with the Central Park 5, now the Exonerated 5, to his insurance policies, calling the parents from African nations coming from ‘a—gap nations’ to disinviting the one sitting Black governor from a governors’ assembly.”
She added, “The checklist goes on and on and on.”
