Black Trump Supporter at D.C. Rally Doubles Down After CNN Challenges Him

JOHNSON: “It’s important for me to be here because I stand for unity. As the president of Black Conservative Federation, of course I need to come here, but also I like to see these things. I like to see us coming together, rallying together. And this is kind of like a Trump reunion. Everyone, a lot of people here, we found out that we were Facebook friends, we’ve been defending each other, but we never met each other in person. So, there’s a lot of us here. Like I said, I worked on the Trump campaign, I worked on the Dr. Carson campaign. I am politically active. I do political strategy work. I just love the President, I love what he’s doing and what he’s going to do.
NOBLES: “There are clearly a lot of prominent African-American leaders that feel differently than you do about the President. What do they have wrong about their perception of Donald Trump?”
JOHNSON: “They don’t have the research. They haven’t done the research. The thing about it is, if you do the research, if you actually — President Trump, I read a book, ‘The Art of the Deal.’ If you read it, you would know exactly how he operates and why he does what he does. He’s playing 3-D chess.”
NOBLES: “I’ve seen some shirts here today, one shirt that said ‘No White Guilt,’ things like that. There have been some messages that might not be that open to folks with diverse perspectives. What would your message be to folks like that?”
JOHNSON: “When it comes to ‘No White Guilt,’ I agree with that. I actually just made a post about it on my page and a video about it, is that there is — there are some white Americans that feel guilty for what their ancestors did, this and that and the thing about it is they shouldn’t have to feel guilty. This is America.”
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NOBLES: “And just let me correct myself. That was actually Diante Johnson, the founder of the Conservative Black Foundation. He was one of the many African-Americans speakers that spoke today at this rally. An effort by this group to show a diversity of support for President Donald Trump. There’s no doubt though, the majority of people that were here were certainly white, but we did see a cross section of Americans and the goal here was to get out of this situation peacefully and they were able to do that. Boris?”
SANCHEZ: “Fortunate to see that. Ryan Nobles reporting from the mother of all rallies. Ryan, thank you.”