Trump says he didn’t see Obama clip in video before it was posted

US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he did not see the entire video clip depicting former Democratic President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama as monkeys before it was posted on social media and that he did not think he made a mistake.

Trump said he saw the beginning of the video, which focused on claims of voter fraud, and gave it to unnamed employees to post it.

“Nobody knew this was happening eventually, if they had looked, they would have seen it and probably would have had the common sense to eliminate it,” he told reporters aboard Air Force One.