One of two Hall County representatives in Congress has reacted publicly to the Obama video that was posted last week on President Trump’s Truth Social page”
“For the record, I was appalled by the post depicting former President and First Lady Obama on monkey bodies,” Rich McCormick (R-Suwanee) said on X.
But McCormick did not blame the president for the posting,
“President Trump obviously didn’t approve of the post and took it down. Racism should not be tolerated. The Republican Party was founded on the abolition of slavery and the equality of all people.”
Hall County’s other congressional representative and a staunch supporter of the President, Andrew Clyde (R-Jackson County) had not commented publicly about the video as of early Sunday morning on X or in a news release.
The White House reaction has gone from blaming “fake outrage” for the controversy surrounding the posting to blaming a White House aid for it to Trump saying he didn’t watch all the video and was unaware of the ending which is the part that included the former president and first lady.
Click here for the latest on fallout from the posting: Congressional Black Caucus chair says Trump’s post on the Obamas shows a ‘bigoted and racist regime’ – SRN News