Trump: Jesse Jackson Was ‘a Piece of Work,’ But He Was a Good Man

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TRUMP: “I want to begin by expressing our sadness at the passing of a person who was — I knew very well. Jesse was a piece of work, I want to tell you. He was a piece of work, but he was a good man. He was a real — he was a real hero, and I just want to pay my highest respects to Reverend Jesse Jackson. He was a good man, who’s actually, as you got to know him, he got better and better all the time. A lot of them — a lot of people, you get to know them, they get worse and worse. Jesse got better and better. But I knew him well long before becoming president and he really was special, with lots of personality, grit and street smarts. He would say, Jesse had serious street smarts, alright, very important ingredient to life, I will tell you.”