Tucker Carlson: “You did see Jay Jones, though, when the, when the blackface…”

“It was just when I first heard this, this was crazy. I just thought, no, this couldn't be true. But it's, it is true. You did see Jay Jones, though, when the, when the blackface scandal happened several years ago, jump up and down about how he'd been the victim of racism. You're from southwest Virginia, which is overwhelmingly white and poor. This is a black guy or part black guy or whatever. He says he's a black guy from Norfolk whose dad went to boarding school in Princeton.” (30:36–30:45)

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