CNN’s Don Lemon on His Belief Trump Is Racist: ‘It’s Obvious, and It’s Ugly’

‘I just hope at some point he owns it’

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LEMON: “The reason we seized upon them tonight in putting together the closing is because I think they're the most instructive. He knows that that's not true, what he's saying. He knows it's ridiculous, and that's not because I'm painting him as a bigot. I'm saying he goes out of his he goes out of his way not to be as condemn Na Tory as he is about so many things that matter so much less. And that Heather Heyer murder, whether that happened, and he didn't do with that matter what he did with, let's say Katie Steinle, something that didn't have to happen, that wouldn't have happened if that guy wasn't in this country, but he'll seize upon that as proof of a problem. But when this bigot kills Heather Heyer, that doesn't speak to any problem. That doesn't speak to anything. And he had to be chased into saying the right thing about Heather Heyer, where he leaps the chance to make so much more of these others. It's obvious. It's obvious, and it's ugly. I just hope at some point he owns it.”

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