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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKushner was pressed on whether Trump's birtherism was racist.
Jared Kushner is sure that his father-in-law, President Donald J. Trump, is not a racist. But as for whether Trump launched his political career on a racist premise? Eh .?.?. hed rather not say.
Kushner was given multiple chances to weigh in on whether the birther campaign that questioned whether Barack Obama was born in the United States a campaign that Trump led was a racist one.
Axioss Jonathan Swan: Have you ever seen him say or do anything that you would describe as racist or bigoted?
KUSHNER: So, the answer is un -- uh, no. Absolutely not. ... when a lot of the Democrats call the president a racist, I think theyre doing a disservice to people who suffer because of real racism in this country.
SWAN: Was birtherism racist?
KUSHNER: Um, look I wasnt really involved in that.
SWAN: I know you werent. Was it racist?
KUSHNER: Like I said, I wasnt involved in that.
SWAN: I know you werent. Was it racist?
KUSHNER: I know who the president is, and I have not seen anything in him that is racist. So, again, I was not involved in that.
SWAN: Did you wish he didnt do that?
KUSHNER: Like I said, I was not involved in that. That was a long time ago.
So thats four instances in which Kushner emphasized that he hadnt personally participated in Trumps effort to question the legitimacy of the nations first black president, and zero instances in which he denied the entire effort was racist.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/03/kushners-cringeworthy-dodge-whether-trumps-birtherism-was-racist/?utm_term=.6cf5acfe3739
dchill
(38,517 posts)Said 4 times. Which means, by default, " I was involved in that. "
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
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