Omarosa: Trump’s ‘Intent on Starting a Race War’

‘When Donald Trump started attacking NFL players about kneeling, he only attacked African-American athletes’

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REID: "A lot of people have, I’m sure, talked to you personally and in interviews you’ve done talked about your perception of Donald Trump now being racist, but going back to when you first met him, whether that perception — a quote from your book, as I thought at the time, your perception of him, he’s racial in that he uses race and race relations to manipulate people. And this was at the time in 2015. You also — you were an Obama supporter. You were a supporter of President Obama. You talked about him hating Barack Obama. That’s going back to 2007, 2008, that he hated him. That he thought of him as a phoney and that he complained about him, that he was a birther. Did those things at the time make you think, wait, this guy is not just racial, he might be racist?"
OMAROSA: "Thank you so much for asking the question because I think it’s important. I don’t want to get into an academic discussion which is what we were having when I was talking in 2015 about the difference, but I can give you a clear example of racist versus racial. When Donald Trump started attacking NFL players about kneeling, he only attacked African-American athletes. It wasn’t him calling out and saying he was racist, but he was being racial. He was trying to stir up his base by using an issue he knew his base would gravitate to, to see him attack wealthy, prominent, African-American men, wasn’t necessarily saying that he’s being racist but he was being racial because his intent on starting a race war. That’s what I believe."

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