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‘Even The Members Of The Ku Klux Klan…’: CNN’s Symone Sanders Makes Absurd Reference When Talking About Trump [VIDEO]

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CNN’s Symone Sanders made an absurd reference to the Ku Klux Klan while talking about whether Donald Trump was racist Monday.

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Sanders, appearing on, “CNN Newsroom With John Berman and Poppy Harlow,” was asked about Donald Trump telling reporters he was “the least racist person you have ever interviewed.”

She said, “You know, I, if you have to state that you’re the least racist anything, I think that’s problematic in its own.”

Then she dropped a bomb, making a comparison between the current conversation over whether Trump was racist and the Ku Klux Klan.

“Look, even the members of the Ku Klux Klan would not come out forthright and tell you that they’re racists. So, I think we can have a separate conversation about the fact that being a racist and racism is not transactional,” said Sanders. “Because, people will tell you, ‘Oh, you know, I go to school with people of, you know, different backgrounds, I have black friends,’ but race–the system of racism is a system, it’s not transactional.”

Wow.

She also accused Trump of creating a “travesty.”

“So I don’t, you know, I have my feelings about the president, so clearly I don’t believe him, but I think what’s more important here is that Donald–this has real implications not just for Donald Trump but for Republicans down the line in the midterms,” Sanders said.

She continued, “Every single person, if I’m a Democratic operative, working on any of these races, I’m encouraging my candidates and my principles to go out there and put these Republicans on their heels and make them answer for the travesty that this president has created.”

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