Fox Business’ Charles Payne, host of “Making Money with Charles Payne,” offered his Twitter followers a nuanced take on a controversial moment during the Michael Cohen hearing Wednesday in front of the House Oversight Committee. Tlaib suggested that Patton, who is black, was invited as a "prop" to counter Cohen's narrative of Trump as a racist. TLAIB RAISES SPECTER OF RACISMThat exchange ultimately led to Payne's pointed tweet on Thursday: "What's Racist? Assuming a Black woman standing behind republican during a crowded hearing is a "prop" or Assuming that said Black woman isn't accomplished enough to be in room on her own merit?" The entire line of discourse followed Cohen's incendiary testimony, in which the longtime Trump lawyer and fixer called his ex-boss “a racist.

Source: Fox News February 28, 2019 21:39 UTC