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Trump bats away accusations of racism: 'I'm the least racist person you'll ever interview'
The Washington Examiner ^ | Sunday, January 14, 2018 | Kyle Feldscher

Posted on 01/14/2018 6:24:03 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

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Email Address SUBMIT President Trump defended himself from claims that he is a racist after reportedly saying Haiti and some African nations are “shithole countries” last week.

“No. I’m not a racist. I’m the least racist person you will ever interview,” Trump said Sunday before eating dinner with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy at Mar-a-Lago, his club in Florida.

The subject of Trump’s views on race — specifically whether he is racist against black and brown people — have been called into question this week after his reported comments during an Oval Office meeting on immigration.

Trump also reportedly repeatedly questioned an intelligence officer of Korean descent about where she was from, not accepting New York or Manhattan for an answer, until she said her parents were from South Korea. He then reportedly asked another staffer why the “pretty Korean lady” wasn’t working on North Korea.

Those statements come months after Trump said there were good people on both sides of the violence in Charlottesville, Va., over the summer, one of which included the KKK and neo-Nazis.

Trump was dining with McCarthy to talk about a busy week in Congress, which must reach a spending deal by Jan. 19 or the government will run out of money and shut down.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


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1 posted on 01/14/2018 6:24:03 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

When did Haiti move to Africa?


2 posted on 01/14/2018 6:28:19 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all white armed conservatives)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No matter what Trump says or does, the Left will call him a racist; so there’s really nothing to lose by being bold.

Other Republicans should take notice of that fact.


3 posted on 01/14/2018 6:29:20 PM PST by Arm_Bears (Hey, Rocky--Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Feldscher might meet someone less racist but not interview him or her.


4 posted on 01/14/2018 6:31:33 PM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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5 posted on 01/14/2018 6:31:48 PM PST by gaijin
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To: tumblindice

You got it backward —— Africa moved to Haiti via Dutch/English/Spanish ships. (Tickets were sold to them via Black brothers! Go figure.)


6 posted on 01/14/2018 6:32:24 PM PST by TaMoDee (Go Pack Go! The Pack will be back in 2018!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well, ol’ John Lewis and UT’s Love say emphatically that he is “racist.” How would those two buffoons know?


7 posted on 01/14/2018 6:36:17 PM PST by Theodore R.
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Here's the Clintons hanging out with a known white supremacist racist! They knew! #TheyKnew

8 posted on 01/14/2018 6:36:26 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (God Bless Attorney General Jeff Sessions! Thank You!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Those statements come months after Trump said there were good people on both sides of the violence in Charlottesville, Va., over the summer, one of which included the KKK and neo-Nazis.

Huh ?

“I think there is blame on both sides,” the president said in a combative exchange with reporters at Trump Tower in Manhattan. “You had a group on one side that was bad. You had a group on the other side that was also very violent. Nobody wants to say that. I’ll say it right now.”
9 posted on 01/14/2018 6:41:15 PM PST by stylin19a (Best.Election.of.All-Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If Trump was such a horrible known racist...then why were so many politicians angling to have their pictures taken with him and pursued him to make contributions to their campaigns prior to 2016???


10 posted on 01/14/2018 6:43:47 PM PST by proudpapa (This is not the tagline you are looking for.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Remembering in the Presidential debates, and Dr. Ben Carson did not hear his name and was waiting, then Ted Cruz came, and walked by Ben Carson, then someone else... When Donald Trump was called, he stayed beside a candidate of darker skin pigment. He showed great respect.


11 posted on 01/14/2018 6:44:08 PM PST by rovenstinez
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Didn’t DJT date a black woman for quite a while?


12 posted on 01/14/2018 6:44:52 PM PST by MayflowerMadam
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Kara Young?

http://static10.imagecollect.com/preview/560/5ac14a31701efc2


13 posted on 01/14/2018 6:53:20 PM PST by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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To: tumblindice

If Haiti moved to Africa it would still be one of the poorest countries in its’ hemisphere and still be a Shi_Hole!


14 posted on 01/14/2018 6:55:17 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: MayflowerMadam

He dated a mixed-race model named Kara Young for a couple of years in the late 1990s.

I don’t think he’s racist. I think he just says whatever crosses his mind at any time without the slightest concern for how it will sound or what conclusions people might draw.

I often tell my children, “Just because a thought crossed your mind doesn’t mean it has to come out your mouth.”


15 posted on 01/14/2018 6:55:18 PM PST by Tax-chick ("It's the end of the world as we know it ... if the sky is falling, I don't want to be below it.")
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To: Arm_Bears

>> No matter what Trump says or does, the Left will

Or doesn’t do... e.g., Jamie Lee the Boob


16 posted on 01/14/2018 6:56:23 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

FIRE ON GAMBLING BOAT OFFSHORE PORT RICHEY, FLORIDA TODAY — 50 ONBOARD.


17 posted on 01/14/2018 7:01:06 PM PST by varina davis (WHOEVER TELLS IT LIKE IT IS FOR 2020)
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To: gaijin

Forgot about all the heavy coverage this got... Disney and Comcast must have been too busy focusing on the Russian Dossier fabrications


18 posted on 01/14/2018 7:01:36 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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"President Trump defended himself from claims that he is a racist after reportedly saying Haiti and some African nations are “shithole countries” last week.

The subject of Trump’s views on race — specifically whether he is racist against black and brown people — have been called into question this week after his reported comments during an Oval Office meeting on immigration.

Trump also reportedly repeatedly questioned an intelligence officer of Korean descent about where she was from, not accepting New York or Manhattan for an answer, until she said her parents were from South Korea. He then reportedly asked another staffer why the “pretty Korean lady” wasn’t working on North Korea."

Reportedly, reportedly, reportedly. Maybe they should report what he actually says instead of making up lies for their base to go around parroting like it was Gospel.

19 posted on 01/14/2018 7:01:58 PM PST by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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If TRUMP is racist, how come people like Mike Tyson, Floyd Mayweather, Hershel Walker, George Foreman & Don KING are all supporting him?
20 posted on 01/14/2018 7:04:54 PM PST by KavMan
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