Trump doesn’t address systematic racism during Kenosha visit

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 2 September 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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At a roundtable event during President Trump’s visit to Kenosha, he neither addressed systematic racism nor met with Jacob Blake’s family, the Black man who was shot seven times by a police officer in Kenosha. The only two Black people in attendance were two pastors for Jacob Blake’s mother. They were asked whether they believe police violence was a systematic issue and the President interjected saying, “I don't believe that. I think the police do an incredible job and I think you do have some bad apples." Justin Blake, Jacob Blake’s uncle, joins AC360 to react to the President’s comments and says “he’s a lying president—racial things he said invoked and empowered police officers all over the country to reign down hate upon African Americans.” Plus, a National Institutes of Health panel says there’s no evidence backing the use of convalescent plasma to treat Covid-19 despite the FDA issuing an emergency use authorization just a week prior and the President declaring it a historic breakthrough. Dr. Eric Topol, Executive Vice President at Scripps Research, disagreed with Trump and the FDA. He wrote a letter to Dr. Stephen Hahn, the FDA Commissioner, telling him he should either tell the truth or resign. He tells AC360 he doesn’t expect Dr. Hahn to hold a press conference and tell the truth. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The president of the United States traveled to Kenosha was content today, wore a white
0:05.0	police officer, shot a black man, Jacob Blake, seven times in the back.
0:09.3	Yet listening to the president's remarks there, you would barely know that Mr. Blake
0:12.8	even existed.
0:14.3	John Burman here in for Anderson, it was a full hour and 15 minutes into his visit before
0:18.9	he spoke of the incident at all, and that was only when asked about it.
0:22.8	This is what the president said about Mr. Blake's mother.
0:26.1	Yeah, here she's a very fine woman.
0:28.5	I was going to speak to her, but then I heard there were a lot of lawyers on the phone.
0:32.4	I said, have enough lawyers in my life.
0:34.6	Enough lawyers in his life.
0:37.0	There is Michael Cohen who helped him arrange the pay off the stormy Daniels and Rudy Giuliani
0:41.2	who helped him get impeached, but that seems quite different than not being bothered to
0:45.0	speak with the mother of a man who was now paralyzed from the waist down and who's shooting was
0:49.8	followed by nights of sometimes violent demonstrations in the killing of two protesters, allegedly
0:55.0	by a 17 year old would be vigilante.
0:57.9	The only other time the president referred to Mr. Blake at all was at a press conference
1:01.8	a little more than an hour later, again, only when asked.
1:25.0	So never once, neither there nor during the rest of the visit did the president utter Jacob
1:37.0	Blake's name, not once.
1:38.9	I'm not sure he's ever said Blake's name.
1:41.5	I'm not sure he knows it.
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