Trump White House wont condemn Steve Kings racist comments

[deminks]

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-white-house-wont-condemn-steve-king-s-racist-comments-de410f0fb041#.6tkxrj9tp

Two days after Rep. Steve King’s (R-IA) white nationalist tweet warning that “We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies,” the White House finally responded on Tuesday… barely.

At his daily press briefing on Monday, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer had declined to weigh in on the tweet — or the Monday interview in which King strongly reaffirmed its sentiments — saying that he would “touch base with the president.”

Asked again on Tuesday, he declined to criticize King — who Trump endorsed in 2014 as a “special guy, a smart person with really the right views on almost everything.” Instead, Spicer said simply that “I think the president believes that this is not a point of view that he shares.”

“He believes he is the president for all Americans,” Spicer concluded, before announcing that he would “leave it at that.”

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[Orrex]

1. Of course not.

He doesn't want to alienate his base or President Bannon.

[gratuitous]

2. Trump is the president for all Americans? Really?

Because I have to say I'm feeling pretty neglected seeing all the consideration President Trump has for his billionaire buddies, racist compadres, and corrupt cronies.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. I am so wishing to hear Spicer tell the truth, admit they are racists and racism drives

most of what they are doing, that and greed.

Would be so refreshing, wouldnt it!