Sarah Huckabee Sanders made a bizarre claim about black employment under Trump compared to Obama as a defense against Omarosa's attacks
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- White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders pointed to the growth of black employment under President Donald Trump as a defense against former top White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman's claims that the president may have used a racial slur.
- Sanders claimed that Trump has created 700,000 jobs for black people in his first year and a half, while Obama only created 195,000 in eight years.
- But according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nearly 3 million more black people were employed at the end of Obama's presidency than when he was sworn in.
While rebuking claims made by former top White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman's tell-all book about President Donald Trump, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders made an astounding claim about black job growth during the president's tenure.
As part of Sanders' defense of the president during the press briefing on Tuesday, the White House press secretary made the eye-raising claim that Trump has already created more jobs for black people than his predecessor President Barack Obama did in two terms. From Sanders (emphasis ours):See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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