Fox News host Jesse Watters and Washington Times Opinion editor Charlie Hart on Thursday accused former President Barack Obama of attacking Republican South Carolina Senator Tim Scott.
In a podcast interview with Democratic political strategist David Axelrod, President Obama attacked Scott over the Republican presidential candidate’s views on race in America. “No one is more despised by people like Barack Obama than by a successful African-American like Tim Scott. He has achieved success in his own right, along with his family and community,” Hart said. Mr. Watters told Mr.
“I think there’s a long history of African Americans and other minority candidates within the Republican Party legitimizing America and saying, ‘Everything is great, we can all make it.’ Nikki Haley as well.” approach,” Obama told Axelrod on Wednesday. (Related: ‘Hogwash’: Tim Scott mocks ‘The View’ co-host ahead of show appearance)
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Obama also said Scott avoided “an honest account of our past and present.”
Scott, who is black, has come under fire for being conservative. After Scott’s response to President Joe Biden’s 2021 congressional address, liberals launched racist attacks, including hashtags Twitter allowed to trend for racist campaigns.
“The View” co-host Joy Behar lectured Tim Scott on racism on May 23.
“He’s more like black Republican Clarence Thomas, who believes in ‘lifting yourself up’ than I am,” he said. He’s one of those people who understands racism.” He doesn’t understand it. So does Clarence. That’s why they’re Republicans,” Behar said.
When Scott appeared on the show on June 5, Behar was absent from the show, but instead clashed with co-host Sunny Hostin when he tried to preach his views to Scott.
“We have an African-American president, an African-American vice president, and two African-American secretaries of state,” Scott told Hostin. “In my home city, the chief of police is an African-American who is currently running for mayor.”
Scott’s success “is kind of alien to Barack Obama and a denial of race politics, which I think is the most threatening to a guy like Barack Obama,” Hart told Watters. rice field.
“Barack Obama has to stop playing pranks,” Watters said. “He’s tired of him.”
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