president biden was in normandy today commemorating the 80th anniversary of d-day. while he was there he was asked about something totally unrelated. whether he would issue a pardon for his son hunter if he is convicted of felony gun vices. here is how he responded. as we sit here in normandy, your son hunter is on trial. let me ask you, will you accept the jury s outcome, their verdict, no matter what it is? yes. and have you ruled out a pardon for your son? yes. pretty clear answer there. but again, this is a yes or no question. and to be honest, it shouldn t be that hard to answer. joe biden as president with the power to pardon anyone he wants at the federal level will let his son go to prison if he is found guilty by a jury of his peers because that is how the american justice system is supposed to work. now compare that answer to former president donald trump s answer. on trump s last day in office, january 20th, 2021, he issued more than 70 pardons and there
people were not just conservative, black people always have been conservative minded, but more black people voted conservatively. and lyndon johnson, then you go down that road, and now we are where we are. that was byron donalds suggesting there were positive aspects to jim crow. he joins me tonight. plus, president biden is in normandy on the 80th anniversary of d.-day, delivering a stark warning about the state of democracy. and the grandson of a key member of the black panther party, david hilliard, is pushing back against a video of hilliard saying allegedly that he supports trump, saying it is misleading. and that grandson joins me later. but we begin tonight with the 80th anniversary of d-day, the day some 156,000 allied soldiers arrived on the beaches of normandy, charging head on into nazi gun fire, land mines, and barbed wire. pushing the occupying nazi era germans out of normandy and then out of the rest of france. the invasion marked a definitive turning p
and latino teenagers. this was a man sued by richard nixon s justice department for discriminating against black renters. he said laziness is a trait in blacks. he promoted the birther conspiracy about our first black president. he told the white house staff that haitian immigrants to america all have aids. i could go on. now, donald trump believes his criminal convictions somehow put him in league with communities that have faced systemic injustice. something that as president, trump claimed does not exist. i think the police are doing an incredible job. trump s black people love me because i m a convict argument
brownstone in harlem. the thing is, trump did not own every brownstone in harlem. he and his father owned buildings in queens and brooklyn in the 1960s. we also know that in 1973, trump management, the firm he ran for his father fred, was sued by the nixon justice department for discriminating against black renters. not to mention hilliard never lived in new york. he lived in california during that time as the panthers were based in oakland. but that did not stop right- wing social media and even some news outlets from running with the story anyway. that is on tell hilliard s grandson spoke out, calling the video senior abuse and threatening a cease and desist order against her. jones posted on the app formerly known as twitter, quote, my grandpa does not even know trump is a politician. he has been dealing with
even people with their own questionable statements and behavior when it comes to race. president trump said, democratic governor ralph northam stated i believe i m not the people in that photo. this was 24 hours after apologizing for being in the picture. unforgivable. obviously, the president s history with african-americans goes back to being sued by, i think, the nixon justice department for discriminating against african-americans when it comes to when it came to people living in his apartments. well, absolutely right. and i just want to say something about the context. one of the advantages of being as old as i am, before bakari was even born, i was head of the u.s. commission on civil rights in 1984 when this occurred. race was very much in the public conversation. doug wilder was running for lieutenant governor. but i was on the front page as was the rest of the civil rights commission talking about race and affirmative action. so this isn t like it happened in 1934. this is