On Wednesday night,  CNN’s Don Lemon slammed Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) for bringing a black, female government employee into the hearing in an attempt to counter claims President Donald Trump is racist.

After showing video of the moment where Meadows brought out HUD official Lynne Patton — who stood at his side but did not speak — Lemon stressed it was like Meadow was saying, “I have a black friend prop. A black employee prop.”

“Come on, y’all. What he’s essentially saying is this president can’t be racist because he’s hired this black woman,” Lemon continued on. “That’s not how racism works.”

Lemon then noted he asked Meadows to come on his show, but he went on Sean Hannity‘s show instead.

“And by the way, in fairness, in truth, we asked Mark Meadows to come on. I wanted to hear from him himself, to explain, to have a thoughtful conversation. But he went on Fox News with Sean Hannity tonight.”

He added: “And I think I could have had a really good conversation about this with him. I’d still like to have that conversation.”

Watch above, via CNN.

 

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