Mercedes Schlapp, a senior advisor to President Trump’s re-election campaign, apologized over the weekend for sharing a video of a man wielding a chainsaw against protestors and saying the N-word.
Schlapp told Fox News Sunday, “I retweeted without watching the full video and I deeply apologize. I deleted the tweet. I would never knowingly promote the use of that word. The intent was that these protestors wanted to call the cops for their own safety despite them wanting to defund the cops.”
The video, posted Friday, shows a man in Texas warning protesters not to let black people “fool” them.