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‘What a Stupid Question’: Trump Attacks Black Woman Reporter After She Asks the Question on Everyone’s Mind

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Second Time This Week Trump Has Attacked a Black Woman Reporter

President Donald Trump has a long and ugly, history of attacking the press in general, and targeting individual reporters. With women reporters it’s worse. And with Black women reporters even worse.

Just on Wednesday during an off-the-rails press conference Trump had an insane meltdown. He also attacked respected journalist Yamiche Alcindor, the White House correspondent for PBS Newshour, who is a frequent contributor on MSNBC and NBC News, and a former New York Times reporter.

Asked about his declaration of being a “nationalist,” and if he understands that some see that as emboldening white nationalists, Trump told her, “That’s such a racist question.”

“That’s such a racist question,” he repeated, pointing his finger at her. “Let me tell you: That’s a racist question,” he said, as he repeatedly interrupted and cut her off.

Fast forward to Friday morning.

CNN’s White House Correspondent Abby Phillip, one of many reporters speaking to the president on the White House lawn before he took off for Paris, asked what arguably is the one question on everyone’s mind.

“Do you want acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker to rein in Mueller?”

It’s clear Trump installed Matthew Whitaker to do just that. Whitaker has written publicly he thinks Mueller has gone too far. He has detailed ways to curtail Mueller’s investigation. He’s literally called it a “witch hunt.”

Abby Phillip is a veteran reporter who has worked for The Washington Post, ABC News, and Politico.

She is also Black.

How did the President respond to her?

“What a stupid question that is. What a stupid question,” he repeated, as he wagged his finger at her. “But I watch you a lot, you ask a lot of stupid questions.”

The President did not actually answer her question.

 

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DONALD TRUMP IS RACIST

Trump Jets to Dallas to Give Talk on Race and Policing – Snubs City’s Top Law Enforcement Officials Who Are Black

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Right now President Donald Trump is on his way to Texas, where he will hold a roundtable discussion on policing and race at a Dallas megachurch, nearly three weeks after the police killing of an un armed Black man, George Floyd. Not invited: Dallas’ top three law enforcement officials – a police chief, sheriff and district attorney – all of whom are Black. The White House also refused to invite three U.S. Congressmen who represent the area, all of whom are Democrats and Black.

“The White House defended the snub, insisting the president will still hear a diversity of views before heading to a $10 million campaign dinner with two dozen donors who pony up at least $580,600 each for a meal and souvenir photo,” The Dallas Morning News reports.

Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot told the Dallas Morning News, “of course [Trump] would not be getting the full picture of advice from law enforcement. I don’t know who he’s going to get it from. I mean, we are the people on the ground.”

The city of Dallas is the nation’s ninth largest, with over 1.3 million people. It is also more diverse than the national average. About 62 percent are white, and 24 percent are Black.

Despite Dallas’s demographics, Trump has chosen a predominantly white church for his discussion, which will be “hosted at Gateway Church’s campus in North Dallas on Hillcrest Road near Forest Lane, one of the city’s more affluent areas.”

Dallas’s mayor Eric Johnson, who is Black, was invited but cited a scheduling conflict and will not attend.

U.S. Reps. Eddie Bernice Johnson, Colin Allred of Dallas, and Marc Veasey of Fort Worth were not invited. All are Democrats, and all are Black.

While this is technically an official White House visit paid for by the taxpayers, the Trump administration is using the Trump campaign’s slogan and language, calling it a “Roundtable on Transition to Greatness: Restoring, Rebuilding, and Renewing.”

Trump more than any president in modern history has blurred the lines between official White House business and his campaign’s business, leaving taxpayers to pick up the tab.

 

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Internet Mocks Trump as White House Mulls Presidential Address on Race: ‘What’s Next, a Speech on Sexual Consent?’

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As the nationwide protests over the police killing of George Floyd enter their third week the White House is engaged in an internal debate over whether or not President Donald Trump should deliver an address to the nation on race and national unity. Americans on social media are having a blast mocking the idea. Many believe there is not a president less qualified to lecture the nation on race, given that many also believe this president is a white nationalist or white supremacist.

Given Trump’s bad behavior on a wide variety of topics, there are a wide variety of other equally bad opportunities, which many were only too pleased to point out.

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‘Fishing for White People’: Trump Ordered Plan From Sondland to ‘Fast Track’ Immigration by Europeans Into US

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Last year President Donald Trump ordered his U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, to develop a plan that would “fast track” immigration by wealthy Europeans into the United States. It does not appear he ordered similar plans from any other ambassadors.

Sondland (photo, fourth from left) is now an embattled entity, having delivered damaging testimony confirming President Trump extorted a bribe from the President of Ukraine.

But when he first took over as Ambassador to the E.U., Sondland “started talking to subordinates about a need for more skilled and wealthy European immigrants in the United States,” The Washington Post reports.

Believing Sondland’s orders were “racially motivated,” U.S. diplomats that the E.U. mission “were unsettled by the idea.”

One said, “the way this was going to come off was that the United States is fishing for white people, while reducing opportunities for needier people to immigrate.”

That diplomat was correct – not only in how the efforts would be perceived, but in their motivation.

That’s because President Trump, immediately upon Sondland being confirmed and taking over in Europe, tasked him with “developing a proposal to ‘fast track’ immigration from the E.U.,” and ordered Ambassador Sondland to consult with Trump’s top immigration adviser, Stephen Miller, and his son-in-law Jared Kushner.

Miller, a known white nationalist, has been at the center of Trump’s successful efforts to block all refugees from entering the U.S. He was also behind Trump’s Muslim ban, and Trump’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents. He called the latter a “simple decision.”

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