MSNBC’s Reid: I Saw Trump as a Bigot Years Ago

EXCERPT:

REID: "I was one of the few people who wouldn't watch 'The Apprentice' because I saw him as a bigot years ago, he was a birther. The fact that, you know, he cultivated the alt-right, he brought them into the White House, Steve Bannon proclaimed on the record to a reporter that Breitbart is the home for the alt-right, he wanted it to be that. So the only thing that surprises me is that people are surprised. Donald Trump's instinct has always been to give, if not a consent and support to the alt-right, to at least give it a pass. So for him to come immediately to try to equate the two, the counter protesters and the Nazis, that they were both just two sides of a coin, it tells you who Donald Trump is. But you know what? This is who Donald Trump has been his whole public life. He hasn't changed. So I think we should stop expecting Donald Trump to grow into the office. Donald Trump is Donald Trump. He is 71 years old. He is not going to change. This is who he is. This is who people elected."