On Thursday’s New Day, CNN co-host Alisyn Camerota brought on senior Washington correspondent Joe Johns to race bait over President Trump’s decision to rescind Barack Obama’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) policy. Johns unabashedly lied by claiming that Trump rescinded the policy to appeal to “white suburban voters” and to inflame “racial divisions and the racial culture wars.”
Camerota began the Democratic propaganda by claiming that “there's growing backlash after President Trump rolled back an Obama-era rule meant to combat segregation.” What she meant by “growing backlash” was far-left activists opposing Trump’s move.
Conservatives, including Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson, have long opposed the AFFH. They opposed the policy because it enabled the federal government to bypass local governments and homeowners by charging the federal government with planning their neighborhoods for them. The policy increased local taxes by requiring towns to build larger water and sewer lines, add mass transportation, and increase school sizes and social services. Stanley Kurtz of the Ethics and Public Policy Center wrote that the policy perverted the intention of 1968 Fair Housing Act through “federal overreach on steroids” which “nullifies the very idea of legislative democracy.”
Johns then launched into an attack on alleged racist behavior by Trump in the 1970's:
Yeah, Alisyn, so this is the Trump administration getting rid of an Obama-era administration rule that goes back to 2015, to get rid of housing discrimination, the kind of housing discrimination, by the way, the President and his father were accused of engaging in, all the way back in 1973.
If Johns was not a Democratic hack, he would discuss Joe Biden's support for segregationist policies in the 1970's. Biden tried to justify his positions at the time by saying that he did not want his children to grow up in a “racial jungle." He also praised ardent segregationist, George Wallace: “I think the Democratic Party could stand a liberal George Wallace — someone who’s not afraid to stand up and offend people, someone who wouldn’t pander but would say what the American people know in their gut is right.”
As Democrats always do in order to manipulate voters, Johns then engaged in race baiting:
But make no mistake, this is about the President's re-election campaign. It's about the desperate attempt to reach out to white suburban voters who have been abandoning the President because of the administration's failed response to the coronavirus. And it's also about stoking the racial divisions and the racial culture wars in an attempt to, basically, distract from the administration's failed response. So the President, as you said, tweeting out, talking about, you'll no longer have to be bothered or financially hurt by low-income housing built in your neighborhood.
Johns’ nasty partisan rhetoric relied on the myth of white flight, which says that whites fled from the inner cities to the suburbs because minorities couldn’t afford to live in the suburbs. As it turns out however, blacks moved to the suburbs in higher rates than whites and the five largest suburbs in the U.S. have the fastest growing black populations in the U.S. No doubt to escape issues such as crime and poverty created by failed progressive policies in Democrat-run cities. Thus, Trump is also speaking to the many successful minority residents of suburbs all across the country. Does Johns not believe that minorities in the U.S. can be successful enough to afford the suburbs? That would be well, racist.
Also, let's examine how the left has stoked “racial divisions and the racial culture wars.” Leftist activists have been initiating violent protests where they have been chanting to “fry” cops “like bacon.” Leftist hero Colin Kaepernick even said that the 4th of July should not be celebrated: “We reject your celebration of white supremacy.” It was leftist activists that toppled statues of American heroes such as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. It has been the left-wing media which has forwarded the narrative that Mount Rushmore is a monument to white supremacy. Leftists have promoted the insane 1619 Project, which accuses pretty much every American institution of white supremacy.
Showing his partisan stripes yet again, Johns recited a former Obama’s staffer’s attack on Trump:
President Obama's housing secretary tweeting back, really quite unfiltered, saying, "Just because people are poor doesn't mean they're bad. That's obvious to most, but not to bigots like the @realDonaldTrump."
Eager to demonstrate her wokeness, Camerota joined in by calling Trump’s decision “unfiltered” and “overt” racism.
CNN doesn’t care about the facts, it just wants to smear Trump with accusations of racism in order to manipulate Americans into voting for Biden.
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Read the full July 30th transcript here:
CNN New Day
07/30/30
6:07 AM ET
CAMEROTA: This morning, there's growing backlash after President Trump rolled back an Obama-era rule meant to combat segregation. The President tweeting that, quote, "people living their Suburban lifestyle dream will no longer be bothered by low-income housing," end quote. CNN's Joe Johns is live at the White House with more. OK.
JOE JOHNS (CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT): Yeah, Alisyn, so this is the Trump administration getting rid of an Obama-era administration rule that goes back to 2015, to get rid of housing discrimination, the kind of housing discrimination, by the way, the President and his father were accused of engaging in, all the way back in 1973. But make no mistake, this is about the President's re-election campaign. It's about the desperate attempt to reach out to white suburban voters who have been abandoning the President because of the administration's failed response to the coronavirus. And it's also about stoking the racial divisions and the racial culture wars in an attempt to, basically, distract from the administration's failed response. So the President, as you said, tweeting out, talking about, you'll no longer have to be bothered or financially hurt by low-income housing built in your neighborhood. President Obama's housing secretary tweeting back, really quite unfiltered, saying, "Just because people are poor doesn't mean they're bad. That's obvious to most, but not to bigots like the @realDonaldTrump." And the other important thing to say is the Trump administration has made it clear they want to use rules, executive actions, executive orders, to send a message to the voters in advance of the election. Alisyn, back to you.
CAMEROTA: Yeah, unfiltered is the right word, Joe. I mean, all of this is unfiltered. It's overt. You just get to see exactly who these folks are. Thank you --
JOHNS: Absolutely.
CAMEROTA: -- very much, Joe.
