Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was asked if Trump is a racist. Her answer: ‘Yeah, no question.’

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn’t afraid to speak her mind, even when it comes to sharing her thoughts on the president.

In an interview with Anderson Cooper on CBS’s 60 Minutes, which aired Sunday, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez confidently answered that she believes Donald Trump is a racist.

“I think he’s a symptom of a problem,” Ocasio-Cortez told Cooper. “The president certainly didn’t invent racism but he’s certainly given a voice to it, and expanded it, and created a platform for those things.”

.@AOC says the president is a racist, “no question.” The White House told 60 Minutes that President Trump “has repeatedly condemned racism and bigotry in all forms.” https://t.co/HmucF1z6zg pic.twitter.com/N5RlRfHoA9

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CNN’s Don Lemon and Anderson Cooper don’t mince words: Trump’s comments were ‘racist’

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Nobody should be surprised Donald Trump said something racist. Before election day, he said many undocumented Mexican immigrants were “rapists” and criminals, and his company was sued by the Justice Department for discriminating against black tenants — way back in 1973

And yet, he continues to outdo himself. “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” he reportedly said on Thursday, referring to people from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries. He then suggested bringing in more immigrants from Norway — you know, white people. 

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