Trump campaign official: Blacks ‘eating poverty and drinking hopelessness’

Published September 16, 2016 7:50pm ET



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.

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