'He is not a racist,' Mercedes Schlapp said Sunday, right as Trump spent the morning tweeting attacks against four congresswomen of color.
An aide for President Donald Trump's re-election campaign appeared on ABC News Sunday and attempted to defend her boss from accusations that he discriminates toward people of color—a charge leveled by increasingly prominent voices following the president's string of racist tweets and ahost George Stephanopoulos
Schlapp, who previously served as the White House director of strategic communications, suggested that Trump still condemned the cries from his supporters, despite the president seemingly. As Schlapp was offering this defense, Trump continued tweeting attacks Sunday morning against Omar and U.S. representatives Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib, all of whom are women of color.
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