Don Lemon, Joy Reid spread 'lies' about Trump economy, black political consultant says
By Brie Stimson
Media figures like CNN's Don Lemon, MSNBC's Joy Reid and journalist Roland Martin do more harm than good for African-Americans, a black political consultant told President Trump during a White House roundtable discussion Wednesday.
Raynard Jackson accused the journalists of spreading "lies about the economy" -- before coronavirus stay-at-home orders forced buisnesses to close -- including the claim that the Obama administration deserved credit for gains made during Trump's time in office.
"That's just factually not true," Jackson said. "I have a degree in accounting. I keep up with the economy. They're lying."
Commentators such as Lemon, Reid and Martin are “putting more poison" into the black community than any drug dealer," Jackson alleged.
He charged that the liberals had "killed more black folks than any white person with a sheet ever their face,” in a likely reference to the Ku Klux Klan, whose history of violence and intimidation against African-Americans is well known.