Friday evening on CNN, there were some major fireworks when one guest compared Donald Trump to former Alabama Governor and ardent segregationist George Wallace.
Panelist Bakari Sellers made a fair and quite accurate comment, saying:
“Trump is more George Wallace than he is Ronald Reagan.”
Boris Epshteyn, who is an advisor to the Orange Menace, immediately interjected:
“That is so wrong.
“The George Wallace comparison is absolutely ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. There is no basis for it! You have no basis for the George Wallace comparison!”
Sellers refused to back down, responding:
“I have a lot of basis.”
And then Sellers drove his point home perfectly, telling Epshteyn:
“The basis is the fact that Donald Trump has been sued, not once, but twice, for failure to rent to African-Americans. The basis is the fact that the Central Park 5 got that heinous ad in the New York Times asking for them to be executed.”
The Trump surrogate then complained that Sellers was making charges which happened 40 years ago. To that, Sellers replied:
“You asked me a question, you asked me a direct question that said what is the George Wallace comparison. And I just gave it to you!”
This is not the first (or last) time that Donald Trump has been compared to the vile George Wallace, and it’s a very valid parallel. Just because Trump stood up twice this week and pretended to reach out to black voters, that does not expunge his record of racism and racist remarks over the years. Trump is a bigot and a hater of legendary proportions. In some ways, he’s worse than George Wallace. And he deserves to be tossed into the dustbin of history just like the man he is being compared to.
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