• intensely_human
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    5 months ago

    Here’s what he actually said:

    They’re trying to say that I said, ‘Black people were doing better under Jim Crow.’ I never said that. They are lying. But why would you be surprised? They always lie," Donalds said.

    “What I said was, you had more Black families under Jim Crow, and it was the Democrat policies under H.E.W., under the welfare state that did help to destroy the Black family,” the Republican clarified.

    What he said is simple and hard to get wrong. The people who are getting it wrong are lying, on purpose, about what he said.