Former White House aide and current Trump campaign senior adviser Mercedes Schlapp on Sunday defended President Trump’s record with minorities amid criticism for his recent attacks against four Democratic congresswomen.
“I have worked with President Trump for two years and he is not a racist,” Schlapp told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “He is a compassionate man whose policies have focused on the minority community.”
Schlapp, who served as White House director of strategic communications for nearly two years, went on to praise the president’s policies toward minorities and cited record-low Hispanic unemployment in the interview.
“He is a results-oriented president who is focused on helping uplift all Americans, including blacks, including Hispanics,” Schlapp noted.
Schlapp also defended the the president’s response to the “send her back” chants about Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar at a recent Trump rally in North Carolina, saying he “made it very clear” that he did not agree with the chants but “stands with those people in North Carolina.”
Trump has also faced criticism for recent tweets in which he told Democratic Reps. Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts to “go back” to their home countries.
