Stephen Moore, who is President Donald Trump’s pick for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board, offered up a very awkward defense of a racist joke he once told about the family of former President Barack Obama. Moore stumbled during an interview with Margaret Hoover on PBS’ “Firing Line” as he attempted to explain the gag he told after the 2016 election about Trump kicking “a black family out of public housing.” Previews of the interview were released online Tuesday. “So, you know, that, that is a joke that I always made about, you know, Obama lives in, you know, the president lives in public housing,” said Moore. “Again, you can, you go back 30 years, you’re going to be able to find clips over and over and over again about me,” he said. And I say things that are kind of jokes that if people want to pick them apart, then I probably won’t, you know, get on the Federal Reserve Board.”Check out the clip here:

Source: Huffington Post May 01, 2019 09:45 UTC