CNN’s Sciutto to Debbie Dingell: ‘Do You See a Racist Undertone to Trump’s Twitter War with Lavar Ball?

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SCIUTTO: "Our top story, the president of the United States goes on a predawn Twitter rant, stepping up his feud with the father of a UCLA basketball player and the NFL as well. We’re back with democratic congresswoman Debbie Dingell of Michigan. I want to reference back to one of these predawn tweets this morning targeting lavar ball, the father of one of the three UCLA basketball players. The essence of it, one, the president claiming victory here. It was me in all caps there that got him out. And calling lavar ball a poor man’s version of Don King and then later an ungrateful fool. Are you shocked by those comments?"
DINGELL: "I’m not shocked because it’s President Trump twittering. But I wish he had better things to do. This is ridiculous. We’ve got so many serious problems facing this country. I’d like to see him focus on some of the more serious problems and I don’t have a lot to say about the person who is attacking the president either."
SCIUTTO: "There is a commonality to the president’s targets often. And you’ll hear this from African-American commentators and others, but the president uses phrases here ungrateful pool, a poor man’s version of Don King, talking about the father of a UCLA basketball player. Do you see a racist undertone?"
DINGELL: "There are times that you wonder. But it isn’t just towards — I’ve heard his language that is not inclusive or respectful of women, but, I mean, I’m a woman. So I hear it when I’m a woman. I think the president tends to not be as respectful as I would like to see him be, or, quite frankly, that the president of the United States should be to all Americans."
SCUITTO: "We — you have and others have been aggressively, understandably so, calling out sexual harassment by sitting politicians. Should you be doing the same with the president’s — what appear to be racist messages here. Dog whistles or bullhorns, depending on how you see it.
DINGELL: "I think a lot of Democrats have been calling out the — I’m actually married to the twittering king who has been doing a lot of twittering on some of the behavior. People aren’t listening sometimes when people are responding to it. I think we all — you know what I ask for for this Thanksgiving? We all take a deep breath and are civil."