Embarrassed ABC News president Kim Godwin claims Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is “a black man like me” because of his multiple indictments, calling his remarks “couldn’t be worse.” He called it “racist.”
Mr. Godwin, who was effectively demoted two weeks ago after parent company Disney appointed Debra O’Connell to oversee its struggling but top-rated news division, announced last Saturday that he had lost his job to Black on the previous night. He sent a memo to his staff criticizing the former president following his televised speech. Conservative Union Gala in Columbia, South Carolina.
“The fact that a person running for president of the United States, regardless of politics, made these statements, and in front of a general crowd, and with so many black people in attendance, and The fact that he is supporting him is amazing. Shocking,” she wrote in the note, which was first reported by Semafor.
President Trump posted a photo of himself on social media after he was indicted in Georgia on federal charges of interfering with the 2020 election, but was also cleared of national security by the White House by a federal grand jury in Miami last June. He has been charged with stealing documents.
“I was indicted a second time, a third time, a fourth time, and a lot of people said that the reason black people like me is because black people have been so hurt and discriminated against, and they actually want me to be like me. “I’m being discriminated against,” Trump told a crowd in South Carolina ahead of his landslide victory over former Gov. Nikki Haley.
He also faces election interference charges in the District of Columbia and 34 counts of falsifying business records in the Manhattan hush money scandal involving porn star Stormy Daniels.
He added that black voters can relate because “what’s happening to me happens to them.”
Godwin, the first black person to head a major network, harshly criticized President Trump’s claims.
“These statements are racist in the extreme,” she wrote in the memo.
Mr. Godwin’s comments were more critical of ABC News than its previous positive response to reporting on Mr. Trump. According to semaphore.
in one ABC News Online ReportThe article quoted Trump’s political opponents who called him a racist. Another article on the ABC News website explained the comments as follows:“Controversial” In that heading.
A source close to ABC said Godwin’s email was “part of a larger editorial conversation” about how to cover President Trump’s remarks.
“This is not a one-off email she sent to the organization,” an insider told the Post.
As the station discussed the incident on air, ABC anchors said President Trump’s comments were “widely criticized as racist.”
Ms. Godwin’s future at ABC News has been marred by a series of missteps during her two-and-a-half year tenure and the ratings of her top-rated programs “Good Morning America” and “World News Tonight with David Muir.” It is being questioned amid the decline.
Her new boss, O’Connell, hit the ground running, taking a hands-on approach, attending Godwin’s editorial meetings and showing up on the sets of various shows over the past two weeks.
