NAACP president: Trump is ‘racist’

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NAACP President Derrick Johnson says he has no choice but to believe President Trump is “racist” based on his comments and policy stances, according to an interview published Friday afternoon.

The leader of the nonpartisan organization said in light of Trump’s calling poor countries “shithole” places and pushing the
incorrect theory that former President Barack Obama was born in Africa’s Kenya, the Republican leader “has demonstrated both in words and in deeds and in policy implementations racist tendencies.”

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