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(CNN) A Georgia state lawmaker said he would not have an issue if President Donald Trump used the n-word in the past and argued that holding a president accountable for mistakes made before entering office would "set a bad precedent."
"I will always say using the n-word is wrong, and it's bad, and should never be accepted in our society. But just because (Trump) might have done it years ago, not as our president, doesn't mean we need to continue to berate him because he used it," GOP state Sen. Michael Williams, who is white, told CNN's Victor Blackwell on "New Day Saturday."
Williams said it is "always wrong to use that word," but that Trump, as President, has not used that word.
He added, "To hold somebody accountable for something he did years ago as our president today, I think it sets a bad precedent."
The question of whether Trump used the racial epithet arose this month from a claim former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman made in her book "Unhinged," which was released this week, that Trump used the racial slur on the set of "The Apprentice" and that a recording of it exists. The alleged existence of the tape has not been verified.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/08/18/politics/georgia-senator-trump-racial-slur-cnntv/index.html
Zoonart
(11,873 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)would come out
NOTHING matters to them
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CatMor
(6,212 posts)he did it before he became the so called president so that makes it OK.
thegoose
(3,115 posts)Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)Trump supporters would attempt to excuse that as well.
Doodley
(9,099 posts)ooky
(8,924 posts)They wouldn't care if he uses it tomorrow. Hell, they might even start chanting it with him if he says it first.
badhair77
(4,218 posts)They will excuse anything as if an attack on him is an attack on them. The shameless masses.
mwooldri
(10,303 posts)Or 2018?
I can be more forgiving about the n word being used back then. But not in the 21st Century. DJT should know better.
RandySF
(58,982 posts)So he was at least on his 60s.