A Trump campaign official and former Obama voter said people don’t care where the president was born because African-Americans are “eating poverty and drinking hopelessness.”
“People on the ground are eating poverty and drinking hopelessness. They are not thinking about a birther issue,” Brunell Donald-Kyei, the vice chairman of diversity outreach for the Trump campaign, said during a Friday interview on MSNBC.
The interview was held after the Congressional Black Caucus condemned the Republican candidate for failing to apologize for speculating that President Obama was not born in the United States.
“Being a Donald Trump supporter does not make me a Barack Obama hater. I love Barack Obama. He is the president, we are proud of him,” Donald-Kyei said. However, she said she is supporting the Republican presidential nominee because the black establishment has failed to deliver the promised hope and change for suffering black communities.
“What Donald Trump is fighting against is this very thing — that class of people, the establishment, they come in different colors, they’re not just white or Asian. They come in the face of black as well,” said the two-time Obama voter.
“And what I’m telling you is that there were eight years ago, the people were promised redistribution of wealth,” she continued, saying they were promised the “money would trickle down” so that blacks would have better schools and investments in their communities that would allow their businesses to flourish.
When asked why she believed that Trump would keep his word, Donald-Kyei said, “What I will tell you is that Donald Trump is running for the president of the United States and he has stated his first and No. 1 priority is the American people.”
