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
cognitive issues since 2014. we reached out to ms. mitchell for comment and she said she did not know who hilliard was until after she took the video and, quote, in no way did i mislead hilliard. he spoke in his own words. he told me yesterday that he stands by the interview. unquote. i am joined by erik jones junior, grandson of david hilliard. thank you for being here. i want to clear up a few things. i saw the video that you posted responding to ms. mitchell in which you say your grandfather has cognitive issues. she is back to saying he stands by it. what you make of that? first off i wanted to say thank you for the opportunity on behalf of me and my family to be able to clear up some of the confusion regarding my grandfather and it s time. what do i say to that? it is nonsense.
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