President Trump’s critics are ignoring his historic pardon of heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson, former White House aide Anthony Scaramucci charged Friday.
“It’s interesting that his critics are not talking about that,” Scaramucci said on “Fox and Friends.”
“They want to talk about the breakup letter,” he said, referring to Trump’s letter that said he would not meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un next month. “In the meantime, he’s probably gonna bring us peace on the North Korea Peninsula, but they’re not talking about this monumental thing he did yesterday in the Oval Office by pardoning Jack Johnson.”
Johnson was boxing’s first black heavyweight champion, and in 1913, he was convicted for accompanying his girlfriend across state lines. Johnson’s relatives and others said it was a racist conviction that forced him to serve 10 months in prison.
Scaramucci said Trump’s move is likely confusing to his opponents, who charge Trump is a racist.
“Supposedly the president’s a racist, OK? So this is obviously ironic that he’s one of the least racist people that we all know,” he said.
