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It’s well known that President Trump has no problem with lobbing insults that opponents and those who attack him. It’s something the liberal media whines about almost every day. But on NBC’s Sunday Today, host Willie Geist and Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd misled viewers by appearing to insinuate that the President reserved insults of intelligence to African-Americans. Thus calling him a racist yet again.
“Let's talk about that tweet Friday night insulting the intelligence of both LeBron James and Don Lemon at CNN, an African-American television host,” Geist prefaced. “Was this more than an attack on somebody he saw insulting him on television? And why does he keep going back to the insult on intelligence when it comes to African-American leaders in this country?”
Todd admitted that LeBron did attack the President by saying he never wanted to meet with him, but insisted “there is a troubling pattern here.” “Every time he disparages an African-American political opponent of some sort, whether they're an athlete or an actual elected official, he always goes to intelligence. Always,” he declared.
“It's hard not to notice that pattern and it's hard not to look at it and wonder if there is nefarious motives behind it and some sort of long-term belief system in him or maybe he's just trying to send some sort of dog whistle to his supporters,” Todd continued, shifting his smears to Trump voters. He suggested that it really was “just a whistle” for them as opposed to the mystical “dog whistle” only they could understand.
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