CBS Reporter Admits That Trump's Record with Minorities Would Be the Envy of Any President
By Joe Saunders
Published December 30, 2019 at 2:07pm
It shouldn’t be newsworthy when a mainstream media reporter points out the truth about the current White House, but it is.
President Donald Trump got some unexpected credit from a news network not named “Fox” on Sunday when Major Garrett, the chief Washington correspondent for CBS News, outlined some of the steps the president has taken to help minorities during his time in office and even called them one of the big “undercovered” stories of the Trump era.
It’s definitely not the narrative Democrats are pushing.
In a segment of “Face the Nation” on Sunday, Garrett outlined only a few of Trump’s accomplishments and — in a twist that had to hurt the Democratic Party’s diehard Obamaphiles — noted that the country’s first black president never came close to those achievements.
It’s a record any president would envy.
The segment included a year-end discussion among the panelists of what stories they thought had been undercovered over the course of 2019.
For Garrett, it was Trump’s work on issues championed in particular by black communities and black lawmakers.
The president has pushed funding for historically black colleges and universities, the criminal justice reforms of the First Step Act and policies aimed at boosting the economies of depressed areas of the country through “opportunity zones” that were included in the Trump tax cuts of 2017.