PHILLIP: Tonight, not letting go. Sources inform NCS that Donald Trump is privately lashing out at Republicans who publicly condemned a racist video he shared on social media that depicted the Obamas as apes, questioning their loyalty and even vowing penalties for them. Among these senators is Katie Britt, who Trump has declared is lifeless to him. Her workplace slammed that account as faux information.
And then there’s Senator Tim Scott, the Senate’s solely black Republican, whose response Trump has privately claimed fueled nationwide consideration to this story. One senior Trump administration official tells NCS that Trump felt that Scott might have dealt with the matter privately, including quote, “He was like, we work together all the time. He didn’t need to comment publicly.” Now, Senator Scott’s workplace declined to remark. However, NCS’s intrepid reporters do have this reporting about it. It
says, “As the video was first gaining traction, Scott, who speaks to the President regularly, privately reached out at first, a source familiar said he was unable get a hold of the President so he took to X. That got Trump’s attention. He later called Scott, with whom he had a close personal relationship and told the South Carolina Republican he was planning to have his team remove the post.”
It shouldn’t be true that Tim Scott is the explanation that this blew up. The cause it blew up is as a result of it was racist and it was posted on social media.
PARRISH: Yes, that is unhealthy. I imply, full cease. This entire factor is unhealthy. The video is unhealthy. The President posting it’s unhealthy. The response that we’re seeing proper now could be unhealthy.
UNKNOWN: And no apology.
PARRISH: Look, I put out a press release on this and summarizing is that what we noticed in that video, it was gross and it was beneath the dignity of the Office of the President or any one that holds workplace on this nation. As a matter of reality, even in case you’re not in politics, that video was beneath the dignity that we must always all work together with one another as Americans.
PHILLIP: What does that say about Trump although? That it’s not the truth that the racist video was posted, however the truth that folks known as him out for it, that he’s — that’s placing them on his enemies checklist. That’s wild!
KOH: I feel what’s most annoying is the variety of Republicans who didn’t condemn, proper? It’s horrifying that these days that even racism appears to be partisan nowadays.