The White House was forced to backtrack this week, after wildly misstating the level of job gains by African-Americans under President Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama.
The false claim came during Tuesday’s press briefing, which was dominated by questions about Omarosa Manigault Newman. In her new tell-all book and on an accompanying publicity tour, the former reality TV star and presidential assistant has accused Trump of being a racist.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders tried to rebut that claim by arguing that Trump has done more to boost African-Americans’ economic status than his predecessor. But her job statistics were as bogus as Trump’s long-debunked claims about Obama’s birth certificate.
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