Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on 60 Minutes: ‘No Question’ Trump is a Racist

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on 60 Minutes there’s “no question” in her mind that President Donald Trump is a racist — but that she doesn’t intend on talking about it much.

“You don’t talk about President Trump very much,” Anderson Cooper asked the freshman congresswoman from New York. “Why?”

“Because I think he’s a symptom of a problem,” Ocasio-Cortez replied.

“The president certainly didn’t invent racism,” she continued. “But he’s certainly given a voice to it, and expanded it, and created a platform for those things.

“Do you believe President Trump is racist?” Cooper asked.

“Yeah, yeah. No question,” Ocasio-Cortez replied immediately.

“How can you say that?” Cooper asked.

“When you look at the words that he uses, which are historic dog-whistles of white supremacy,” she replied. When you look at how he reacted to the Charlottesville incident, when neo-Nazis murdered a woman. Versus how he manufactures crises, like immigrants seeking legal refuge on our borders.”

“It’s night and day,” she added.

60 Minutes reached out to the White House for a response. They obliged: “Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez’s sheer ignorance on the matter can’t cover the fact that President Trump supported and passed historic criminal justice reform, and has repeatedly condemned racism and bigotry in all forms.”

Watch above, via CBS News.

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