Kushner Repeatedly Refuses to Say if Trump Birtherism Was Racist in ...

Kushner Repeatedly Refuses to Say if Trump Birtherism Was Racist in Interview  The Daily Beast

Sean Gallup/Getty Jared Kushner says President Trump is not racist—but he repeatedly refused to say whether Trump’s false claim that President Obama was born outside the U.S. was racist. Kushner looked increasingly uncomfortable as he was pressed during an Axios on HBO interview about the issue. After Kushner said he had never seen Trump do or say anything racist, Axios’ Jonathan Swan asked him: “Was birtherism racist?" Kushner replied, “Look, I wasn’t really involved in that.” Swan did not let it go. “I know you weren’t. Was it racist?” he pressed. Kushner tried to deflect that follow-up a...