Sarah Huckabee Sanders Has Nothing to Say About Donald Trump's Racist Treatment of the Central Park 5
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During a rare White House press briefing on Wednesday two black reporters questioned White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders about Donald Trump’s racist application of “law and order” and treatment of the Central Park Five.
In response to Trump’s infuriating comments on Tuesday night, when he mocked accuser Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and lamented that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was being treated “guilty until proven innocent,” NPR White House reporter Ayesha Rascoe asked Sanders about Trump’s selective advocacy for due process, which he applies liberally to rich white men while treating men of color as criminals.
Rascoe asked Sanders about Trump’s treatment of the Central Park Five—in 1989, he took out a full-page ad in the New York Times calling for the death penalty for the five black and Latino teens accused of raping a woman in Central Park. Even after the the men were exonerated by DNA evidence, Trump insisted they were guilty. “Is there a disconnect between when the president is interested in due process for some, but not for others?” Rascoe asked.