ABC News president Kimberly Godwin has referred to as Donald Trump’s remarks that Black voters are extra beneficial in direction of him due to his 91 felony fees “as racist as they come”.
Speaking to the Black Conservative Federation in Columbia, South Carolina, on Friday, Mr Trump mentioned: “I got indicted a second and a third time and a fourth time and a lot of people said that that’s why the Black people like me.”
He continued that Black folks “have been hurt so badly and discriminated against, and they actually viewed me as I’m being discriminated against”.
In a word to employees, Ms Godwin mentioned: “No matter one’s politics, the fact that a person running for President of the United States made these remarks period – but also to a public crowd – and with so many Black people present – and they stand with him – is mind blowing. Shocking. These remarks are as racist as they come.”
The remarks, first reported by Puck News, got here after widespread condemnation of Mr Trump’s speech from civil rights activists, the White House and Mr Trump’s rival within the Republican presidential major, Nikki Haley.
“It’s disgusting,” Ms Haley, who has additionally been focused with racist remarks from Mr Trump, mentioned on Saturday.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre referred to as Mr Trump’s assertion “repugnant and divisive to traffic in racist stereotypes”.
“It is profane to compare the long, painful history of abuse and discrimination suffered by Black Americans to something totally different for self-serving purposes,” she mentioned on Sunday.
Mr Trump’s speech was stuffed with racist remarks. He additionally claimed that Black folks favored him extra after his mugshot was launched in Georgia.
And elsewhere he advised the viewers: “These lights are so bright in my eyes that I can’t see too many people out there. I can only see the Black ones, I can’t see any white ones. That’s how far I’ve come. That’s a long way.”
Mr Trump is dealing with a complete of 91 legal fees in 4 separate instances.
He resoundingly defeated Ms Haley in her residence state of South Carolina and continued the successful streak within the Michigan major on Tuesday.
Ms Haley has insisted she is going to stay within the major race till at the very least Super Tuesday, on 5 March.
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