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said Friday that former President Donald Trump ’s controversial remark about “Black jobs” during the presidential debate last month was taken “out of context.”
During the debate on June 27 against President Joe Biden, Trump blamed Biden’s open border policy as the cause of inflation.“His big kill on the Black people is the millions of people that he’s allowed to come in through the border. They’re taking Black jobs now, and it could be 18 — it could be 19 and even 20 million people,” Trump said.
“They’re taking Black jobs and they’re taking Hispanic jobs, and you haven’t seen it yet, but you’re gonna see something that’s going to be the worst in our history,” he added. “I think what he meant to say was the fact that two-thirds of the jobs he created ... went to African Americans, Hispanics, and women,” Scott said. “I think we should take a whole look at the picture, and I don’t think that happens.
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