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Trump surrogate apologizes (sort of) for tweeting cartoon of Clinton in blackface [View all]
Source: The Hill
August 29, 2016, 08:53 pm
Trump surrogate apologizes for tweeting cartoon of Clinton in blackface
By Lisa Hagen
An African-American pastor who has become a prominent surrogate for Donald Trump apologized Monday night for sharing a cartoon of Hillary Clinton in blackface earlier in the day.
“I want to apologize because the last thing I want to do is to anger people. I really am a unifier,” Burns said on Monday in a live video on Periscope.
Burns said no one on the Trump campaign asked him to offer an apology, and he explained that his tweet was meant to invoke his belief that Clinton and Democrats pander to black voters.
“It was not at all my intention to offer or to not offend anyone, the last thing I want to do is to offend people,” Burns said.
“The tweet was not designed to anger or stir up the post like it did,” he continued. “It was designed to bring how I feel the very real reality as to why the Democratic Party and how I view it and have interpreted have been pandering and using black people just for their votes.”
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Trump surrogate apologizes for tweeting cartoon of Clinton in blackface
By Lisa Hagen
An African-American pastor who has become a prominent surrogate for Donald Trump apologized Monday night for sharing a cartoon of Hillary Clinton in blackface earlier in the day.
“I want to apologize because the last thing I want to do is to anger people. I really am a unifier,” Burns said on Monday in a live video on Periscope.
Burns said no one on the Trump campaign asked him to offer an apology, and he explained that his tweet was meant to invoke his belief that Clinton and Democrats pander to black voters.
“It was not at all my intention to offer or to not offend anyone, the last thing I want to do is to offend people,” Burns said.
“The tweet was not designed to anger or stir up the post like it did,” he continued. “It was designed to bring how I feel the very real reality as to why the Democratic Party and how I view it and have interpreted have been pandering and using black people just for their votes.”
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Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/293742-trump-surrogate-apologizes-for-tweeting-cartoon-of
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