President Trump Retweets Racist Video, Deletes After Outcry

Published: June 29, 2020, 9 a.m.

b'Yesterday, President Donald Trump retweeted a video that included one of his supporters yelling \\u201cwhite power\\u201d in response to protesters. Trump thanked the "great people" in the video.\\xa0 The president later deleted the tweet and the White House said he had not heard the racist chant in the video, which depicted arguments among residents of The Villages, a predominantly white and conservative Florida retirement community.\\xa0 Some critics said the president was trying to distract attention from another growing scandal: an intelligence report that concluded Russia had paid a bounty to the Taliban to kill American troops serving in Afghanistan.\\xa0 We\\u2019ll talk about those two stories and more with GOP political consultant Mike Madrid.'