Jake Tapper Confronts Nikki Haley About Saying U.S. Is Not ‘Racist’

Two days after Nikki Haley claimed in a Fox News interview that the United States “has never been a racist country,” the GOP presidential candidate was asked to explain herself during a town hall event at New England College in New Hampshire.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper, after reading her remarks back to her, pointed out a few inconvenient facts.

“Protections for the institution of slavery were written into the U.S. Constitution. The White House was built with slave labor. Your home state of South Carolina seceded from the Union—fought a war to defend the enslavement of Black people,” he told Haley, who recently didn’t mention slavery as a cause of the Civil War when asked directly about it.

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