Alyssa Farah: I Told Trump Once, ‘The Easiest Thing To Do Is to Condemn White Supremacy’
Tommy Tuberville's racist comments continue to reverberate
Racist comments made Saturday by a Republican senator at one of Donald Trump's rallies continue to reverberate this week, with one of the former president's top staffers saying that she once advised Trump simply to “condemn white supremacy.”
Sen Tommy Tuberville, of Alabama, was one of the speakers at a Trump rally in front of a mostly white crowd in Minden, Nev., when he compared former Black slaves to criminals.
“It was racist. Hands down, this was very simply the case. What he was attempting to do, Senator Tuberville is basically say that — he was showing, he was admitting he thinks all crime in this country is committed by Black people. That’s not the case,” said Alyssa Farah, a co-host of the ABC TV talk show The View and a While House staffer during the Trump administration. “We have a rising crime epidemic, but it is all races, creeds, and colors, and to talk about it like that is just — it’s so backward.
“... I remember saying to Donald Trump once, the easiest thing to do is to condemn white supremacy, any day of the week, Monday through Sunday, and and I don’t get why that’s not more common, like, why that’s just not where we are,” Farah added.
Tuberville's racism would be blatant even for the late infamous Republican strategist Lee Atwater, who used racist tactics to get President George HW Bush and other Republican officeholders elected decades gone by, according to CNN's John Avlon in a separate appearance.
“This is the kind of crap that would make Lee Atwater blush. This is screaming a conflation of reparations, crime, and racism, and the crowd cheered, and his Republican Senate colleagues have not condemned. That’s the problem,” Avlon said.
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