Racism Underlies Trump Administration’s War with Rep. Wilson

FEATURING ARUN GUPTA – The debacle of the Trump Administration’s response to the wife of a slain soldier has ballooned into a symbol of just how inept but also racist this government is. What started out as a battle between Donald Trump and Myeshia Johnson over the phone call that the President made when her husband La David died in battle in Niger, has now morphed into a secondary war between their proxies: White Chief of Staff John Kelly and House Representative Frederica Wilson (D-FL).

Wilson, a close family friend of the Johnson’s corroborated their account of Trump’s insensitive condolence phone call and became another target herself.

Kelly defended Trump’s responses to the whole controversy and then attacked Wilson over her conduct at the opening of an FBI field office in 2015. But video of the event revealed that  Kelly’s account was false. In a tweet over the weekend Trump also attacked Wilson saying, “Wacky Congresswoman Wilson is the gift that keeps on giving for the Republican Party, a disaster for Dems.”

The two white men attacking two black women is sadly indicative of where the US is today.

Read Arun Gupta’s latest Raw Story column ‘Race, lies, and videotape: John Kelly’s attack on Rep. Frederica Wilson is an attack on democracy itself’ HERE.

Arun Gupta, an investigative journalist who has written for dozens of publications including the Washington Post, the Guardian, The Nation, Salon, and Raw Story. He is also a contributor to the Intercept and author of the forthcoming book, “Bacon as a Weapon of Mass Destruction.” He is also a regular news correspondent for Rising Up With Sonali.