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'If you're explaining, you're losing': Ex-GOP adviser busts Trump for new 'asinine' claim

Donald Trump's claim that he can't be a racist because he has "Black friends" was laughed off by former Republican party campaign adviser Tara Setmayer during an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday morning.

Speaking with fill-in host Melissa Murray, Setmayer explained that the very fact that the former president felt the need to address the racism issue is bad news and that his answer made it worse.

"We have said this many times before about how asinine this is coming out of Donald Trump's mouth," she told the host. "If you have to say 'I am not a racist,' trust me, if you're explaining, you're losing. There is a reason people feel this way."


"It starts at the beginning of his business career when he was sued for racial discrimination housing back in New York in the 70s," she elaborated. "And his consistent racism and bigotry throughout decades of his career, it's evident whether it was the books that were written about how he treated black employees at his casinos, whether it was about the Barack Obama birther theories or whether it was about his presidency calling immigrants from African countries 'sh--hole countries.'"

"Whether it was about his treatment of election workers, let's remember [Georgia poll workers] Ruby Freeman and Shaye Mossand what MAGA and Trump did to them? Why don't we ask those folks?"

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'You're a doctor': Maria Bartiromo asks Ben Carson if Biden 'makes it to the election'

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Judge Cannon is waiting for a Trump 'Hail Mary pass' so she can spike Mar-a-Lago case

Appearing on MSNBC's "The Weekend," former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner bashed U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon for wasting time by considering frivolous motions as she drags her feet on Donald Trump's obstruction of justice trial.

He then suggested she is desperately looking for a way to shut the case down.

Speaking with hosts about the Mar-a-Lago case brought by special counsel Jack Smith against the former president, Kirschner claimed that Cannon was stockpiling — and not resolving— motions from Trump's legal team like a "like a beaver building a logjam, a dam with all these motions."

He then claimed it looked like she is waiting for help from the former president's legal team that would allow her to dismiss the case in such a manner that it could never be brought to trial.

"One way you can guarantee never being able to set a trial date is if you always have more motions to resolve before you can get there — that seems to be one of the reasons," he told the hosts. "We know Donald Trump's legal team, look at what he did in New York, bogus motion after bogus motion after bogus motion, I think we could call them all Hail Mary passes. None of them were caught, right? Not by a trial court judge or by the appellate court judges in New York. He went to trial and got convicted in a New York minute on the evidence."

"I'm afraid Judge Cannon is, you know, standing uncovered in the end zone waiting to catch Donald Trump's Hail Mary pass and maybe dismiss the case," he added before continuing, "And here is what drives me to distraction: we have talked about a motion to recuse before. If she dismisses this case in a way that deprives Jack Smith of being able to appeal the dismissal, and there are ways to do that once the case moves into trial, we will be looking back saying, why in the world wasn't there a recusal motion that was litigated in the full light of day and let the 11th Circuit rule one way or another?"

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'Stop pretending': Michael Steele flattens Trump's 'Black friends' racism defense

Asked about Donald Trump's claim that he couldn't possibly be a racist because he has "Black friends," MSNBC host Michael Steele was not having it on Sunday morning.

The former Republican National Committee chair, who now is a co-host on MSNBC's "The Weekend" started off by admitting he was going to be polite about it because it is Father's Day, muttering, " I'm going to limit the level of stupid here as much as I can."

Nonetheless, he responded to the assertion by beginning, "When you got to tell me you got so many Black friends it says something about that relationship," before switching gears to, "I think we need to take this for what it really is: more BS from the man who argued for, and will argue to this day, for the execution of five innocent young Black men, the Central Park Five. Who looks at the heritage that Symone [co-host Sanders-Townsend] and I come from from the great continent of Africa as 's-hole' countries? That believe that in the face of the racism and the antagonisms that we still get from Proud Boys and KKK members, that they're 'fine people on both side?'"

"So spare me the Donald Trump has Black friends BS,' he added. "It is Sunday morning and I don't want to have to go to church twice."

He later elaborated, "Just don't sit out there and act like this is groundswell in the community moving toward you because there's not. I think we just need to stop pretending — we are at a point in this campaign where everyone just needs to stop pretending because, when Donald Trump says that Joe Biden has been the worst president for Blacks and Hispanics and has never been anybody so bad, you know it is a lie. Stop pretending it is not."

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ABC host embarrasses Tim Scott because violent crime 'actually down' under Biden

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