Trump promoting ‘textbook racism’ by pardoning Arpaio: Cummings

‘A US congressman has accused President Donald Trump of promoting “textbook racism” by a decision to pardon a controversial former Arizona police officer convicted of criminal contempt in a case involving racial profiling.
Representative Elijah Cummings took to Twitter on Saturday, writing that Trump “claims that he wants to unite the country and fight against racism, yet his own words and actions show the opposite.”
Cummings was invoking comments made by House Speaker Paul Ryan last year, when he was denouncing Trump— then-candidate—for accusing US District Judge Gonzalo Curiel of being “biased because he was Mexican.”
Ryan said at the time that Trump’s criticizing a federal judge because of his ethnicity was the “textbook definition of racist comments.”
Cummings further wrote, “He [Trump] has followed up on his abhorrent statements about #Charlottesville by pardoning a racist cop for his crimes against minorities.”’
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