Black Entertainment Television founder and Democrat Robert Johnson praised President Donald Trump for the state of the economy and also accused the Democratic Party of going too far to the Left in an interview with CNBC Tuesday.
“The party in my opinion, for me personally, has moved too far to the Left,” Johnson told Hadley Gamble. “For that reason, I don’t have a particular candidate (I’m supporting) in the party at this time.”
“I think at the end of the day, if a Democrat is going to beat Trump, then that person, he or she, will have to move to the center and you can’t wait too long to do that,” he added. “The message of some of the programs that Democrats are pushing are not resonating with the majority of the America people.”
Johnson, who publicly supported former failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, has begun praising Trump for the state of the economy, which saw 224,000 jobs created last month.
“I think business people have more confidence in the way the economy is going,” he continued. “If business people are concerned about anything, it’s the clear, clear partisan politics that’s become very wicked and very mean.”
