ABC News President Kimberly Godwin called some of former President Trump's recent comments about African-American voters “as racist as they come.”
In an email sent to some ABC News staff members obtained by Semafor, Godwin condemned Trump's claims that being impeached and having his mugshot taken makes him more identifiable to black voters.
The email, which the ABC News chief sent on Saturday, said: “No matter one's politics, the fact that a person running for president of the United States made these comments, but also in front of a crowd public, and with so many black people present – and supporting it – it is amazing. Shocking.”
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ABC News President Kim Godwin recently claimed that former President Trump's comments about Black voters accepting his mugshot were as “racist as they come.” (1. Sean Rayford / Stringer 2. Dia Dipasupil / Staff)
Godwin, who has been president of the company since 2021, added: “These comments are as racist as they come.”
Trump made the comments during a gala hosted by the Black Conservative Federation in South Carolina last Friday.
“They accused me for nothing, for something that is nothing. They were doing it because it is electoral interference and then they accused me a second time, a third and a fourth time,” he said. However, she mentioned a positive side to his legal problems.
“And a lot of people said that's why black people like me, because they've been seriously hurt and discriminated against, and they actually saw me as if they were being discriminated against.”
Additionally, Trump mentioned that African Americans have “embraced” the mugshot taken of him at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta last August.
He told the crowd: “The mugshot, we've all seen it, and you know who embraced it more than anyone else? The black population. It's amazing. You see black people walking around with my mugshot, you know? They make shirts.”
An ABC spokesperson told Semafor that Godwin's email was “part of a larger editorial conversation” about coverage of Trump's comments.
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During a recent rally in South Carolina, former President Donald Trump claimed his Fulton County Jail mugshot is helping him with Black voters. (Fulton County Sheriff's Office)
The former president's political opponents were also amused by his comments.
Biden's re-election campaign co-chairman Cedric Richmond said in a recent statement: “Donald Trump's claim that black Americans will support him because of his criminal charges is insulting. It's stupid. And it's just plain racist.”
He added: “He believes black voters are so misinformed that we won't notice their blatant complacency.”
A spokesperson for the Democratic National Committee said in a recent statement that Trump is “showing black voters exactly what he thinks of them, and his ideas for winning them over are as cheesy and racist as he is.”
MSNBC host and civil rights activist Al Sharpton lashed out at the former president during a press conference Saturday, saying his words were the “epitome of an insult to black people, and if any black Republican had any dignity, he would denounce this characterization.” of the blacks.” by Donald Trump.”
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