Governor defends himself after Obama comment

CHARLESTON, W.Va. —
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice continued to defend himself Thursday after making comments about no longer wanting stale President Barack Obama within the instruct, announcing he’s no longer racist and has gloomy associates.

The Republican governor has drawn criticism for telling journalists that he would welcome all presidents to West Virginia besides Obama. His location of commercial has acknowledged the remarks had been “in jest” relating to the stale president’s “Battle on Coal,” but Justice, a billionaire coal and agricultural businessman without outdated political experience, added extra clarification when requested relating to the remarks at a files conference.

“If of us finest knew my clan, you know, and the total African American americans that I associate with and that I take cling of care of, families that I take cling of care of, and of us, americans, children, and every little thing, that I take cling of care of and that I’m in communication with day to day, almost,” Justice acknowledged.

His comments cling already drawn scrutiny on-line from those who identified that Obama used to be the principle and finest African American president. The remarks additionally got right here as days of protests over police brutality on African Individuals cling gripped cities all over the nation, renewing consideration on racism within the U.S.

“I would for sure hope and pray that anybody that knows me would know that there isn’t very any longer a racial bone in my body,” Justice acknowledged. “And from the standpoint of of us casting stones in that regard, that’s simply dreadful, it’s ridiculous on yarn of that’s simply no longer me in any formulation.”

The governor additionally reminded journalists that he has been encouraging African Individuals in West Virginia to salvage tested for the coronavirus. He again and again confused out that he singled out Obama attributable to the stale president’s policies on coal.

“My comments had nothing in anyway in any formulation to discontinuance with pores and skin coloration,” Justice acknowledged. “My comments cling every little thing to discontinuance with policies, the policies of an administration that crippled this instruct.”

Justice used to be elected in 2016 as a Democrat, but launched he used to be switching events at a Trump rally no longer as much as a three hundred and sixty five days after taking location of commercial. He goes by Republican opposition in a main election next week.

Earlier this three hundred and sixty five days, the governor confronted identical backlash after calling a largely gloomy excessive college ladies basketball group “a bunch of thugs.” He later acknowledged that “somebody that would accuse me of setting up a racial slur is entirely absurd.”

“First of all, I would expose them that I’m for sure sorry if I’ve finished the leisure that has offended them. However secondly, I would simply screech this, Barack Obama used that term,” he informed local ABC affiliate WCHS-TV in an interview days later.