Jesse Watters Cites Trump’s Dating Life to Claim He’s Not Racist

Jesse Watters shifted his flattery of Donald Trump into overdrive Friday, gushing over the former president as being “more patriotic” than literally anyone else and insisting that he can’t be racist since he dated a Black woman over twenty years ago.

Spurred by President Joe Biden calling out Watters’ network and “loser” Trump during his first campaign speech of the year, the Fox News host appeared particularly irritable.

“[Biden] ran his first campaign on Charlottesville,” Watters said on The Five, referring to the white supremacist rally at the University of Virginia during Trump’s first year in office. After a clash with counter-protesters led to a woman’s death, the then-president said that there were “very fine people on both sides.”

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