Donald Trump proclaimed himself to be the “least racist person on Earth” on Monday, a day after posting what critics said was the most racist tweet on the Internet.
In an interview with Fox News, the Republican presidential candidate defended inaccurate crime stats he posted on social media, which disproportionately blamed blacks for the amount of murders committed in the U.S.
“I retweeted somebody that was supposedly an expert and it was also a radio show,” Trump said on Fox’s “The O’Reilly Factor.”
“Am I gonna check every statistic? I get millions and millions of people @realDonaldTrump by the way. I get millions of people, you know what, fine. But this came out of radio shows and everything else, all it was a retweet. Excuse me, all it was was a retweet, it wasn’t from me and it did come out of a radio show and other places because you see all the names.”
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Trump suffered a social media backlash after posting an image of a dark-skinned man wearing a bandana and holding a gun beside bogus statistics that inflated the number of whites killed by blacks in America.
Trump agreed with host O’Reilly that the liberal media was trying to paint him as a racist.
“I think so, but I hope people know better than that,” Trump said. “I’m probably the least racist person on earth.”
Trump went on to double down on his position to block Syrian refugees from entering the United States.
“I don’t want them to come here,” Trump said. “We shouldn’t be taking anybody.”
