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Filmmaker Spike Lee delivers a masterclass on why no one should ever trust President Trump
Filmmaker Spike Lee on Sunday spoke briefly with Rev. Al Sharpton about Donald Trump and the premiere of his new film “BlacKkKlansman,” which Lee acknowledged he wanted to be released on the one-year anniversary of the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” tally.
Trump on Saturday reference “the riots in Charlottesville a year ago,” but failed to reference Heather Heyer, who was killed when a white supremacist ran his car into a crowd of counter-protesters.
“I knew people would be talking about it,” Lee said. “I wanted to shed light on what happened, and also, reverend, what that guy [Trump] did. He had a chance—I don’t say his name, I call him ‘Agent Orange,’ shout out to Busta Rhymes, he came up with that—he had a chance to condemn hate, racism, the alt-right, the klan, neo-Nazis, and he didn't do it.”
“And in fact, he made a moral equivalence,” Sharpton acknowledged.
“Yes, he tried to balance it,” Lee said. “He’s not saying anything about Heather Heyer, who lost her life, so I mean it is another example of who this guy is. And it is not even up for debate anymore. We know who this guy is.”
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Fox News host whitewashes Trump's bigotry: 'How can someone be a racist' if they hired Omarosa?
Fox News host Leland Vittert suggested on Sunday that President Donald Trump could not be "racist" because he hired Omarosa Manigault to work in the White House.
During a panel discussion on of Fox News, conservative radio host Steve Deace reflected on the news that Manigault, who was fired by the White House, has come to the conclusion that Trump is "racist."
"There are so many of these [White House defections], we'll be talking about somebody else next week or the week after," Deace opined. "After a while, I do think it become white noise and opinions about what you think of the president's character are pretty much cemented on one side or the other."
According to Deace, Americans want to know why "in the Sam Hill" Manigault was hired in the first place.
"Hold on," Vittert interrupted. "We had a Trump surrogate on yesterday... And they tried to weave this narrative that this is ultimate defense of the president. If he is going to be called a racist as Omarosa has sort of tried to ignite that and stir that pot."
"They said, wait," Vittert continued. "How can somebody be a racist if they've brought in somebody who's black, African-American, as Omarosa is, into the White House, into the inner-circle and given her a chance?"
Deace warned that "these kinds of arguments" do not help conservatives.
"The reason why is because the other side likes to point out how much of the black vote they get," Deace said. "This sort of tokenism argument is a bad argument."
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Authoritarianism expert hints Lindsey Graham may be covering for Trump due to the 2016 Russian hacking of his own emails
Addressing the about-face Sen Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has made -- going from Donald Trump critic to stalwart Trump defender -- authoritarian expert Sarah Kendzior suggested that the South Carolina Republican may be doing it involuntarily.
Appearing on MSNBC's AM Joy with guest host Jonathan Capehart, Kendzior was asked what she made of Graham who called for the Mueller investigation in the beginning but now wants it to abruptly end.
On Sunday, Graham appeared on Fox News Sunday where he said, "These [FBI] investigations against Trump were corrupt to the core. They gave Clinton a pass, and we need a special counsel to look at all things at the Department of Justice and FBI when it came to the Trump investigation, particularly the counterintelligence investigation."
"Lindsey Graham, talk about confusing, he confuses me," Capehart stated. "On some days he is 'the president must be held accountable,' and then here he seems to be carrying the president's water. Can you explain what he is doing?"
"I can offer some theories. Lindsey Graham was one of the people who called for the investigation of the Trump campaign's ties to the Kremlin," Kendzior began. "He did that all the way back in 2016 before Trump was inaugurated. He has then done a complete 180. He's been supporting Trump, he's been covering for Trump."
"There are a few things we should remember, " she advised. "The RNC was hacked; no one knows what happened to those emails. Lindsey Graham personally was hacked and nobody knows who has those emails. The RNC is complicit financially and politically and broadly in what the Trump campaign has done in terms of illicit interactions with Russia."
"We have tracked all of those financial ties and there's pretty good chance that either voluntarily or involuntarily Senator Graham has gotten mixed up in the situation and cannot be an objective observer," she explained. "I find that sad because in the past he has asked for a nonpartisan look at what Trump has done. He stood up against corruption and he should go back to that."
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'Do you feel disoriented?' Fox News host asks Rudy Giuliani why he seems confused all the time
During an interview with Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, Fox News host Howard Kurtz touched on the former New York mayor's mental health.
Kurtz noted that MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Nicole Wallace had both suggested that Giuliani's mental health is failing.
"Joe Scarborough, a onetime Republican congressman, said while criticizing some of your comments, 'His eyes are bulging while he’s talking and he looks disoriented,'" Kurtz explained. "Do you feel disoriented, Mr. Mayor?"
"Absolutely, I'm completely disoriented," Giuliani replied flatly. "I'm sure I sound that way. Is there something wrong? Doesn't this give you an indication, Howie, of how completely disoriented the press is and how out of control they are, not only criticizing the president, but everybody around him."
"You can disagree with me," he added. "But I'm hardly disoriented. I know where I am. I know who I am. I don't even think it's worth commenting except for the fact that, aren't they way out of control as journalists, accusing you of some kind of mental illness?"
"It's another thing to say that a person is disoriented, who's not," Giuliani said. "Scarborough has got some deep animus towards the president. All of MSNBC does."
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Watch progressive Nina Turner and conservative Amanda Carpenter join forces and level Trump for his 'racism'
Donald Trump got it from both sides on CNN this morning as conservative commentator Amanda Carpenter and progressive advocate Nina Turner called the president out for his overt racism in a matched set of rants.
Appearing on a panel with State of the Union host Jake Tapper, the conservative Carpenter reminded viewers she is a "never-Trumper," before hammering the president for giving lip service to the disapproving of the "Unite the Right" march in Washington D.C. with a single tweet on Saturday.
As host Tapper noted Trump is claiming responsibility for low African-America unemployment rates, Carpenter said that was the last thing she wanted to hear about.
"I can't listen to statistics about the economy because there are white supremacists marching on the White House lawn today," she exclaimed, only to have Tapper clarify the march would actually be in front of the White House.
"Practically within earshot of the president. Where is my president?" she asked. "In New Jersey! At the golf course, and the best he can do is put out a tweet?"
"This festered because the president has taken both sides approach and this is a time to take sides," she insisted. "It's a no-brainer and it sickens me when I drive home today I'm going to drive past this and president does nothing about it."
When it was pointed out that Trump's approval rating with African-Americans was improving, panelist Turner took a swing at the racism that has become more overt under Trump.
"Racism is structural racism," she exclaimed. "We see that play out generation after generation. This is not just about the Nazis marching in the streets. That's one thing when Malcolm X said, 'The difference between a south and north is the difference between the fox and the wolf.'"
"I understand the wolf because the wolf is out there in the open," she continued. "What I don't understand is the fox. And the fox has created a structural system in this country that is bigger than President Trump."
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Maxine Waters scalds Trump over racism: He's trying to 'frighten whites' by saying 'the black woman' wants to impeach
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) vowed on Sunday to continue to pursue the impeachment of Donald Trump even though the president recently said that she has a "low I.Q."
"I'm not going to be diverted in what I'm doing to bring attention to this lying con man," Waters to MSNBC guest host Jonathan Capehart. "I will continue to resist him. I will fight and tell the truth about him. I'm not going to allow him to somehow intimidate me. I don't care what he says about me. I know who I am. I know what I do. I am the ranking member of the Financial Services Committee of the United States House of Representatives"
She continued: "I have been after him from the minute he revealed himself and defined himself when he was running for office, when he disrespected women and talked about grabbing women by their private parts. This is a lying, deplorable, divisive, dangerous man who does not deserve to be the president of the United States. He can say anything he wants to say about me, my friends and others like LeBron James or [CNN host Don Lemon], any of these people. I know that he is trying to get us away from pointing out who he really is and defining him for what he is. I'm not going to stop. I'm in this fight."
According to the California congresswoman, Trump is trying to "frighten whites" by bringing up her name.
"Here is this black woman and she is controversial and she said things about me," Water explained. "She does not move away from her position on impeachment. He is trying to frighten them."
Water predicted that Trump's ploy would eventually fail because he is undermining the economic stability of his own voters by imposing tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum.
"So let him continue to try and frighten people, to scare people, to call folks names. We are going to stay on the issues and talk about health care," Waters declared. "We are not going to stop. [He can] call me whatever he wants to, it is not going to intimidate me."
Before signing off, Capehart noted the Waters had an upcoming birthday.
"I guess now my biggest birthday wish," Waters said, "would be that we are able to get a leader of this country who represents us, who has the respect of all of our allies all over the world, someone who has an appreciation for the Constitution, someone that does not lie every morning when they get up with these tweets, someone who not only respects women, but all of the people. And instead of dividing us would take leadership to bring us all together."
She concluded with one more shot at Trump.
"He is not truthful. He is a hypocrite," she opined. "I would wish that we could remove him from office and go about getting the kind of president that we can all be proud of. And if he is not impeached, if he cannot be impeached, 2020 is coming up. I believe that American people are going to do the right thing for our country, stand up for what is right and get rid of this man who is embarrassing us all."
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Kellyanne Conway melts down when she's asked to name one black senior adviser in Trump's West Wing
Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump, struggled on Sunday when she was asked to name one prominent black adviser who serves the White House in the West Wing.
During an interview on ABC's This Week program, host Jonathan Karl noted that former White House employee Omarosa Manigault said that she left her job after she began to suspect that the president is racist.
"The first time I heard her suggest those awful things about the president was in this book," Conway opined. "This is somebody that gave a glowing appraisal of Donald Trump the businessman, the star of The Apprentice, the candidate and indeed the president of the United States. She told your own network, Jon, ABC News, the day after she was fired from the White House that she had resigned. Now she's saying that she was fired."
Conway went on to insist that she had never heard Trump "use a racial slur about anyone."
"She says she heard the president use racially-charged language even in the White House," Karl noted.
"Why didn't she tell us at the time?" Conway interrupted.
Karl also attempted to get Conway to explain who Trump was referring to when he described a group of neo-Nazis in Charlottesville "very fine people."
"You're not answering the question," Karl observed after Conway refused to give a straight answer.
"Omarosa was the most prominent high-level African-American serving in the West Wing in President Trump's staff," Karl continued. "Who now is that person?"
"First of all, you're totally not covering the fact that our Secretary of Housing and Urban Development [is Ben Carson]," Conway dodged.
"I'm asking you about the White House staff," Karl pressed.
"The president works with Secretary Carson every day," Conway droned.
"Who is that person?" Karl asked again.
"We have Jeron," Conway said without offering a last name. "He's done a fabulous job and very involved with Jared Kushner and President Trump on prison reform. He's been there from the beginning and he worked with Omarosa."
"Does he have an office in the West Wing?" Karl wondered.
"He has an office in the Executive Office of the President," Conway remarked.
"But not in the West Wing," Karl concluded. "What does that say to not have a single senior adviser in the West Wing who's African-American?"
"I didn't say that there wasn't!" Conway exclaimed.
"Who is?" the ABC stated, giving her another shot.
"There are plenty of people," Conway stuttered. "You should look at the fact that we have a number of different minorities."
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LISTEN: Omarosa shares secret recording of Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly firing her in tense White House face-off
As part of her appearance on NBC's Meet The Press, Omarosa Manigualt, former aide to President Donald Trump, shared a secret recording she made of White House Chief of Staff John Kelly firing her.
"We're going to talk to you about leaving the White House," Kelly began. "It's come to my attention over the last few months that there have been some pretty, in my opinion, integrity issues."
What followed was a tense discussion over whether she was being fired or forced to resign, with the Omarosa asking for a direct answer, and Kelly advising, "I think it's important to understand that if we make this a friendly departure, you can look at your time here in the White House as a year of service to the nation."
In a follow-up interview with host Chuck Todd, she also described the way the exit interview was handled, saying she felt threatened and that Kelly told her, "Things can get ugly for you."
"If I did not have this recording, people would still believe the false, incredible story that I was running around the White House," she explained. "So yes I recorded myself and I have no regret about it."
Turning to her work for Trump over the years, she admitted that she made a mistake and "was complicit with this White House deceiving this nation."
“Being used by Donald Trump for so long, I was like the frog in the hot water. You don’t know that you’re in that situation until it’s just bubbling and bubbling. I was complicit with this White House deceiving this nation. They continue to deceive this nation by how mentally declined he is, how difficult it is for him to process complex information, how he has not engaged in some of the most important decisions that impact our country.”
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BUSTED: Jake Tapper lays bare Giuliani lies after he backtracks and says Trump never said to 'go easy' on Flynn
Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani insisted on Sunday that President Donald Trump cannot be charged with obstruction of justice because he never told former FBI Director James Comey to go easy on disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
During an interview on CNN, Giuliani denied an earlier admission that Trump told Comey to give Flynn "a break" in the Russia investigation. Flynn was eventually fired and pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents.
"The president says that he never told Comey that he should go easy on Flynn," Giuliani opined. "Comey says he did. He put it in his memo. We do have a prior contradictory statement by Comey under oath to the contrary. But put that aside."
"So if [Trump is] going in and testifies to that under oath, instead of this just being a dispute, they can say it's perjury," he continued. "If they believe Comey instead of Trump. We know by now who they believe."
"I just want to be clear about what happened in that conversation with Comey about Michael Flynn," Tapper said. "What exactly did President Trump say?"
"There was no conversation about Michael Flynn," Giuliani insisted. "The president didn't find out Comey believed there was until about -- I think it was February when it supposedly took place, memo came out in May. And in between, Comey testified under oath that in no way had he been obstructed at any time. And then all of the sudden, in May, he says he felt obstructed. He felt pressured by that comment, 'You should go easy on Flynn.'"
Giuliani argued that "the president didn't say that."
Tapper pointed out that Giuliani had told ABC News that Trump asked Comey to "give the man a break" when speaking about Flynn.
But Giuliani shot back that he had never admitted that Trump spoke about Flynn to Comey.
"I never told ABC that, that's crazy," Giuliani complained. "What I said was, that is what Comey is saying Trump said. I have always said, the president denies it. Look, it would be easier for me if the president did say that."
"That is what he will testify to if they ask that question," he added. "But they already know that. So why are they asking us for him to repeat what they already know under oath."
"You're saying a month ago, you didn't tell ABC News that he said something along the lines of, 'Can you give him a break?'" Tapper pressed.
"No, I did not," Giuliani laughed. "I said that is what Comey says."
While speaking to ABC News last month, Giuliani appeared to admit that Trump spoke to Comey about Flynn.
"He didn't direct him to [go drop the investigation]," Giuliani said. "What he said was, can you, can you ..."
"Comey says he took it as direction," the ABC News host interrupted.
"Well, that's okay. He could have taken it that way, but by that time he had been fired," Giuliani responded. "He said a lot of other things, some of which has turned out to be untrue. The reality is, as a prosecutor, I was told that many times, 'can you give the man a break,' either by his lawyers, by his relatives, by his friends. You take that into consideration. But you know that doesn't determine not going forward with it."
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WATCH: MSNBC's Sharpton blows up on Confederacy-defending GOP candidate after being called a 'race-hustler'
MSNBC host Rev. Al Sharpton and Virginia U.S. Senate candidate Corey Stewart got into a heated argument on Sunday morning during a discussion over conservative Republican's views on race and his previous defense of the Confederacy.
Sharpton began by noting that Stewart made a big show of defending the Confederacy during his run for the governorship of Virginia last year, which Stewart didn't want to talk about.
"You know, why is it that you on the left are so obsessed with what happened 150 years ago?" accused Stewart.
"No, no, I'm talking about you last year, I'm talking about Corey Stewart running for governor last year, that's what you said," Sharpton shot back. "You went back 150 years ago."
"Reverend, let me explain this" Stewart snarled. "People don't care what happened 150 years ago. Historians love this stuff. I love history, but at the end of the day, we need to look at what the problems are today, and you mentioned that it was only people of a certain race who were facing these challenges, with their education, their health care, their jobs, everything else"
"You've made a career out of dividing people by race, you've been a race hustler your entire career, you've made a lot of money at it, you haven't even bothered to pay your taxes, and all you do is divide Americans by race," Stewart ranted.
"This is not about me," Sharpton exclaimed. "I'll defend myself standing up for racial justice. I'll give you an opportunity again to defend your statement, defending and praising Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, not 150 years ago, a year ago, you're running for the Senate now. I'm asking you about what you said a year ago. You can call me whatever name you want, that's fine. You're saying that you're running for Senate, you're saying that we shouldn't go back 150 years, you went back 150 years, a year ago."
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Fox News host Jeanine Pirro debuts bonkers new theory about Bob Mueller taking pay-off from Russian oligarch
On her Saturday night show, Fox News host Jeanine Pirro introduced a bonkers new theory about special prosecutor Bob Mueller being a criminal who took pay-offs from a Russian oligarch and who will soon need his own attorney.
"Bob, I really think it's time to give up your phony investigation and get yourself your own criminal defense attorney," Pirro said.
Pirro's monologue began with her normal talking points, such as claiming that the Mueller investigation, which has already led to a bevy of criminal charges against people close to Trump, was a fraud.
"Are you using the Christopher Steele fake dossier as the basis of your investigation?" Pirro asked, apparently forgetting about the emails in which Donald Trump Jr. discussed getting "dirt" on Hillary Clinton through a Kremlin spy.
Things really spiraled out of control once Pirro started discussing a Russian oligarch named Oleg Deripaska who the FBI allegedly approached about funding some sort of operation. Right-wing media has suggested that Christopher Steele was "advocating" for the oligarch who has a complex relationship with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
"Why would you ask for millions of dollars from a Russian oligarch banned from the United States to fund an FBI operation?" she said. "Should you have even asked the oligarch for tens of millions of dollars and for his services. Because that's a crime, isn't it Bob? I'm sure you know the anti-deficiency act prohibits you, as a government agency, from accepting voluntary services. and if it came out that you took money, Bob, from a Russian oligarch whose name you intentionally left out of Manafort's indictment, that would be an embarrassment, wouldn't it?"
It was unclear what Pirro was talking about during the bonkers rant.
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Trump supporter cries when black woman calls her 'happy place' Confederate memorial a 'monument to domestic terrorism'
On his Saturday CNN show, Van Jones has a segment in which he brings several people with divergent political opinions on a ride in a minivan.
On this week's segment, Jones took a group of two white Trump supporters and one black Democrat on a ride through Atlanta.
At one point they passed by Stone Mountain, site of a notorious Confederate memorial.
"The etching, in stone, is a monument to domestic terrorism," said the Democrat.
"That makes me so sad because I don't identify with it that way," remarked white woman who supported Trump in 2016. "Coming here, I think of all the times with my father, my family—so this seems like a happy place. To hear that it's hurtful to you—it makes me sad that that's the impact it has on you, but this is a place where I have really happy memories."
The Trump supporter began crying and the Democrat said she would give her a hug if they weren't in a moving car.
But she also didn't back down on the memorial being racist and hurtful.
"The KKK rallied were here for a reason," she said.
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