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Posting obviously racist material at the start of Black History Month. They know what they’re doing.

I lean Republican. Or at least I did, pre-Trump.

I condemn this. It's repulsive.

The only mitigating circumstance I can see is that Trump in fact may not have known all the contents. He's got people posting for him. (Given the rate at which he posts, he pretty much has to.) And given the rate at which "he" posts, even they may not have watched the video all the way through.

Or they may have, and decided that it did in fact match the tone that they thought Trump wanted to convey.

"Trump says he won't apologize for racist post depicting the Obamas as apes" - https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-shares-ra...

> A senior WH official tells me: A White House staffer erroneously made the post.

> Newsom’s office jumped on the admission, posting “WOW! WHITE HOUSE SAYS TRUMP DOESN’T WRITE HIS OWN TWEETS??? AUTOPEN!” and included an A.I. image featuring an autopen writing a social media post in Trump’s name.

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/autopen-newsom-skewers-t...

The craziest thing I’ve seen today are all the MAGA aligned people who DEFENDED the video before it was taken down. Influencers, Twitter users, and even the press secretary:

> White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt initially defended the video, which amplified false claims about the 2020 presidential election.

These are dangerous people who will defend any atrocity that the administration commits. Unbelievable.