White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt appeared to be in disbelief on Wednesday when CBS News White House correspondent Ed O’Keefe asked for examples of when President Donald Trump had been wrongly accused of racism.
O’Keefe cited Trump’s response to the death of civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, in which Trump said he had been “falsely and consistently called a racist.” Leavitt said that her office was prepared to provide a “plethora of examples” of Democrats and the left-wing media accusing Trump of racism.
“Yesterday, in his statement about Jesse Jackson, the president said, ‘despite the fact that I’m falsely and consistently called a racist by the scoundrels and lunatics on the radical left, Democrats all, it was always my pleasure to help Jesse along the way.’ Where or when does the president believe he’s been falsely called racist?” O’Keefe asked.
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When Trump launched his first presidential campaign in 2015, the legacy media and Democrats accused him of launching racist attacks toward Mexicans for saying that some illegal immigrants were rapists. His opponent at the time, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, said in August 2016 that Trump was “peddling bigotry and prejudice and paranoia.”
Democrats claimed that Trump encouraged neo-Nazism and white supremacy through his response to the riot in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. Trump stated during a press conference that while some people at the rally were “very fine people,” those who were neo-Nazis and white nationalists should be “condemned totally.”
During the 2020 presidential primary, candidates like Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Democratic Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke outwardly called Trump a “white supremacist.”
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Members of the liberal media constantly called Trump “racist,” including in 2018 when Trump labeled African nations “shithole countries” and in response to an artificial intelligence video depicting former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes. The video also depicted several other Democrats as jungle animals, while Trump was a lion.
In August 2024, MS NOW host Lawrence O’Donnell asserted that Trump is the “most racist” occupant of the White House who did not own slaves.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, liberal media figures and prominent Democrats compared Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City in October 2024 to the 1939 Nazi rally that took place at the stadium.
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