Trump’s ‘African-American’ is running for Congress

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Donald Trump appeared to put his foot in his mouth Friday when he interrupted a story to point out a black man at a California rally at Redding Municipal Airport and said, “Look at my African-American over there! Look at him. Are you the greatest? You know what I’m talking about? OK!”

Yet the particular gentleman in question was anything but offended by Trump’s words. “That was me, seriously. I got two autographs out of that,” Gregory Cheadle told the Redding Record Searchlight newspaper.

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