Fox News Host Leland Vittert On Trump: 'How Can Someone Be Racist' If They Hired Omarosa?

Fox News host Leland Vittert suggested on Sunday that Donald Trump could not be "racist" because he hired Omarosa Manigault-Newman to work in the White House.

During a panel discussion on of Fox News, conservative radio host Steve Deace reflected on the news that Manigault-Newman, who was fired by the White House, has come to the conclusion that Trump is "racist."

"There are so many of these [White House defections], we'll be talking about somebody else next week or the week after," Deace opined. "After a while, I do think it become white noise and opinions about what you think of the president's character are pretty much cemented on one side or the other."

According to Deace, Americans want to know why "in the Sam Hill" Manigault-Newman was hired in the first place.

"Hold on," Vittert interrupted. "We had a Trump surrogate on yesterday... And they tried to weave this narrative that this is ultimate defense of the president. If he is going to be called a racist as Omarosa has sort of tried to ignite that and stir that pot."

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