Trump privately blamed Black Americans for lacking initiative: report
By Celine Castronuovo - 09/23/20 01:04 PM EDT
President Trump allegedly made private claims among senior officials that a lack of initiative, rather than racism, had prevented progress in the United States by Black Americans, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
The Post story put remarks Trump made in private in the context of other derogatory remarks it said he privately made about other groups, including Hispanics and Jewish Americans.
More than two dozen current and former U.S. officials spoke to the Post about the remarks, it sais. Many did so on the condition of anonymity because they said they feared retribution.
Officials said that in one instance, Trump said following phone calls with Jewish lawmakers that Jews “are only in it for themselves†and “stick together†in an ethnic alliance.
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