'Was birtherism racist?' Axios' Jonathan Swan asked. 'Um, look, I wasn't really involved in that... That was a long time ago,' Jared Kushner responded.
White House senior adviser to the President of the United States, Jared Kushner, refused to comment on whether Donald Trump's birtherism claims and the Muslim ban were racist during an interview with Axios.with Axios' Jonathan Swan, released on Sunday, Kushner defended his father-in-law from accusations made by Democrats and other public figures — including Trump's own former attorney and personal fixer Michael Cohen — that the president is racist.
"The answer is no, absolutely not," Kushner responded."You can't not be a racist for 69 years then run for president and be a racist." Swan then asked Kushner about Trump's championing of the birther movement, a conspiracy theory which claims that former President Barack Obama was born outside America. Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4, 1961.
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