CNN: Growing Outrage from Dems and Some Republicans Over Trump’s Racist Video Against the Obamas, the W.H. Is Trying to Downplay It

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LIPTAK: “Well, the White House is essentially trying to downplay it. But I think that response from Tim Scott is so interesting. You know, so often the reflexive move by the president’s Republican allies in these kinds of situations is to essentially say that they hadn’t seen what the president posted, to say that they were sort of begging off any response. Tim Scott, of course, the only black Republican in the Senate, very much castigating the president here, saying that it was the most racist thing that he’s ever seen out of this White House and saying that the president should remove it, so really not mincing any words whatsoever.”