Ben Jealous: Trump ‘Ran a Campaign that Inspired Bigotry,’ ‘Hatred and Violence’

‘His brain, if you will, his chief strategist is Steve Bannon who is a big fan of white supremacists and so there’s a problem with his brain’

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JEALOUS: "Donald Trump ran a campaign that inspired bigotry, that inspired hatred and violence. Last year was a banner year. And the -- and problem, of course, is that that, you know, that -- that tradition in this country of standing up against attacks on the Jewish community really is rooted in the very idea that nobody should be persecuted because of their faith."
HAYES: "Right."
JEALOUS: "And we’ve seen in the first month federal judges say that the president has begun to target people because they are Muslims. And so this president really has to back up in a profound way and actually act like he is president and he is no longer campaigning. And frankly, and -- and get out of the groove that his campaign --"
HAYES: "Yeah."
JEALOUS: "-- cut, which was a groove of hate.”

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