The South Carolina Senator was just excusing Trump's racist in March.
Sen. Tim Scott had an epiphany yesterday. Iowa Republican Steve King said, “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive? Why did I sit in classes teaching me about the merits of our history and our civilization?” This was the shinning moment for Scott to finally see there is racism in his 90 percent white and male Republican party.
How is a 52-year-old man who attended Charleston Southern University and has been in government since 1995 not be aware of his president’s history?
In case you forgot, here are Trump’s greatest hits of racism: housing discrimination lawsuits from the 1970s, the racist birther movement against Obama, the Muslim travel ban, the Central Park Five (Trump called for the execution of five Black teenagers with a full page ad in the New York Times in 1989), saying a judge of Mexican heritage could not do his job because he is Mexican and constantly attacking Black public figures (Jay Z, Maxine Waters, Jemele Hill, Colin Kaepernick, etc.), but ignoring people like Eminem… just to name a few.
Scott is saying anything to not upset his base. If a racist saying being a white supremacist isn’t racist is his first time seeing racism in his party then it’s politics over country for Scott.