Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice went on MSNBC Thursday afternoon to discuss a broad range of issues.
Midway through the conversation, host Nicolle Wallace began to press Rice, who is a Republican, on claims that President Trump is a racist. Wallace specifically used comments from Rice’s former boss, George W. Bush, who said that under Trump “bigotry has been emboldened.”
Rice said that America is going “through a period of time where we are labeling each other and calling each other names,” before being interrupted by the anchor asking if Trump is calling people names.
“Nicolle, I will tell you this started a long time before this president,” Rice said of the name calling.
The MSNBC host asked if Trump is “making it worse calling out good people on both sides of a KKK rally,” referring to Trump’s comments about the violence in Charlottesville. – READ MORE
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