Black news commentator Horace Cooper, the chairman of Project 21 and a senior fellow with the National Center for Public Policy Research, is under fire for defending President Donald Trump’s use of the military to reduce crime in Washington, D.C., and potentially other Democratic-led cities.
In an interview on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” on Aug. 13, guest host Brian Kilmeade asked Cooper why the president is picking Black cities to deploy the military, and, some may add, under the guise of fighting crime.
“The President isn’t picking Black cities. The president is trying to solve a problem, and it happens that Black Americans who didn’t give him a majority of their votes are going to be the beneficiaries,” Cooper insisted.
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