Key Highlights
- It was “a fairly long video that had a little piece that had to do with The Lion King.
- It’s been very well, it’s been shown all over the place, long before that was posted.” He said that it was a “very strong piece on voter fraud, and the piece you were talking about was all over the place many times, I believe for years.” Watch on Deadline The video was posted nearly a week ago, and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt defended its posting in a statement last Friday morning.
- But some Republicans on Capitol Hill called for it to be taken down, including Sen.
- Tim Scott (R-SC), who called it the “most racist thing I’ve been out of this White House.” The White House then took down the post, blaming a staffer.
- That individual has not been disclosed, and later on Friday Trump said that he ordered that the video be posted to his account.



