Trump Denies Top Adviser Bannon Is 'racist' Or Right-wing Extremist
Rukhshan Mir (@rukhshanmir) Published November 23, 2016 | 12:00 AM
NEW YORK, , (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 22nd Nov, 2016 ) - President-elect Donald Trump denied Tuesday allegations defended his choice of Steve Bannon as chief strategist, pushing back against suggestions that he is a far-right extremist.
"If I thought he was a racist or alt-right or any of the things, the terms we could use, I wouldn't even think about hiring him," Trump told The New York Times on Tuesday, according to a tweet from Times journalist Maggie Haberman.
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