Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) defended his accusation that Obama doesn’t love America by arguing that Obama’s upbringing by a white mother and attendance of a white school made his statement not racist.
“Some people thought it was racist — I thought that was a joke, since he was brought up by a white mother, a white grandfather, went to white schools, and most of this he learned from white people,” Giuliani said in an interview with The New York Times on Thursday.
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chair of the Democratic National Committee, denounced Giuliani’s comments at the fundraiser, and White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz said that the comments were a “horrible” thing to say.
