Video: Donald Trump Disowns Responsibility For 'Totally Wrong' Retweet On Race

  • by: Alan Duke

When Fox News host Bill O'Reilly told Donald Trump he was bothered by the billionaire's recent "totally wrong" tweet about the number of white Americans killed by black Americans, Trump insisted it was not his fault.

Trump retweeted a chart of purported United States crime statistics that said blacks killed whites at a 81% rate in 2015, when the real stat was 15%.

"I didn't tweet," Trump said. "I retweet someone who was supposedly an expert." The GOP frontrunner said he doesn't have time to check everything.

O'Reilly told Trump he was "bothered" by the Trump's misstep and gave him some advice, adding that he has Trump's back. "Don't do this, Don't put you on stuff like this because it makes the other side, it gives them stuff to tell the ill-informed voter that you're a racist."

'I'm probably the least racist person on earth," Trump said.

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  Alan Duke

Editor-in-Chief Alan Duke co-founded Lead Stories after ending a 26-year career with CNN, where he mainly covered entertainment, current affairs and politics. Duke closely covered domestic terrorism cases for CNN, including the Oklahoma City federal building bombing, the UNABOMBER and search for Southeast bomber Eric Robert Rudolph. CNN moved Duke to Los Angeles in 2009 to cover the entertainment beat. Duke also co-hosted a daily podcast with former HLN host Nancy Grace, "Crime Stories with Nancy Grace" and hosted the podcast series "Stan Lee's World: His Real Life Battle with Heroes & Villains." You'll also see Duke in many news documentaries, including on the Reelz channel, CNN and HLN.

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