Ocasio-Cortez — No Doubt, President Trump is Racist

“You don’t talk about President Trump very much,” Anderson Cooper asked the freshman congresswoman from New York. “Why?”Show more

“Because I think he’s a symptom of a problem,” Ocasio-Cortez replied.

“The president certainly didn’t invent racism,” she continued. “But he’s certainly given a voice to it, and expanded it, and created a platform for those things.

“Do you believe President Trump is racist?” Cooper asked.

“Yeah, yeah. No question,” Ocasio-Cortez replied immediately.

“How can you say that?” Cooper asked.

“When you look at the words that he uses, which are historic dog-whistles of white supremacy,” she replied. When you look at how he reacted to the Charlottesville incident, when neo-Nazis murdered a woman. Versus how he manufactures crises, like immigrants seeking legal refuge on our borders.”

“It’s night and day,” she added.