President Donald Trump is harming the United States in a way that is far worse than Americans think, according to his former biographer David Cay Johnston.
During a discussion on Dean Obeidallah's SiriusXM radio show Monday, Johnston attacked what is expected to be heard by the president during the State of the Union Tuesday evening. He specifically cited Trump's obsession with so-called "chain migration" that Johnston refered to as "family unification" which would fall under what the GOP once called "family values."
“This is a racist policy. Donald Trump is a racist," Johnston said. "This idea that Trump has laid out of what he calls chain migration' -- which comes right out of the racist literature that is read by people like Stephen Miller in the White House--is nonsense. It doesn’t mean like Donald said the other day that you can bring in '32 people.'"
Citing social science literature, he noted that the reason Trump's approval rating has been stuck in the mid 30s is due to one-third of Americans who hate civil rights.
"They don’t want to sit next to an Asian passenger, they don’t want a Latino in the cockpit and God forbid they don’t want to have a black woman boss they have to report to," he said. "And Donald Trump is a hero to these people because he is willing to say, 'I want a white America.'"
He then called out Trump and his family for using the office of the president to personally profit off of the position.
"Donald Trump is like a locust," Johnston said. "He descends upon a business, he gobbles up all the cash he can. That’s why his casinos went broke earlier on...He’s a cash extractor who operates like a mob boss during a ‘bust out.’"
He specifically cited the money Trump's been able to direct attention to his properties.
"When he left the inauguration where he took an oath to faithfully execute the law – he had the motorcade stop -- you know where they stopped?" Johnston asked. "In front of the Trump International hotel. And to every foreign government and every business that’s wants a favor form the Trump administration the signal was clear: You will pay tribute first to Donald Trump and then we will talk about what you want."
Listen the discussion below:
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