Durbin on Whether Trump Is a Racist: ‘I Won’t Say That’

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TAPPER: "So President Trump has had a lot to say in response. He said he didn’t make the comment. He isn’t a racist. But I wonder, based on what the president said in that Oval Office meeting, and based on other things he has said, about Judge Curiel not being able to do his job because of his heritage, he called him a Mexican. I pointed out that he’s from Indiana, but he called him a Mexican, based on the assertion that there are fine people on both sides of the riots in Charlottesville, do you think the president is a racist?"
DURBIN: "I'm not going to say that. I will tell you the comments that he made when I was in the White House I thought were vile, they were hate-filled, and they were racial in tone. There is no question about it."