'Hell No!' Donna Brazile Rips Reince Priebus For Defending Trump's Racist Speech

Democratic strategist Donna Brazile tore into former Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus after he offered a defense of a recent "racist" speech given by Donald Trump to the Black Conservative Federation.

During a Sunday panel discussion on ABC's This Week program, host Martha Raddatz noted Trump had been criticized for saying Black voters like him because he has been charged with crimes.

"Martha, I have to tell you, this is Black History Month," Brazile reacted. "It's the history that we've all made as Americans, a history that we share, and a future that we all want to see together."

"No one that I've heard from, or no one that I understand, wants to go back to Donald Trump, go back to the past, go back to the train wreck, the division, and the chaos," she said. "So it's the history that we not only share, but the history that we want to make together. And under Donald Trump, we didn't make a lot of Black history."

"Reince Priebus, did you consider those comments racist?" Raddatz wondered. "He wasn't on the teleprompter."

"I don't know," Priebus hedged. "Look, I remember back in 2016 when President Trump went in to say, hey, what the hell do you have to lose? And I was the one saying, oh no, we can't say it like that."

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