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   Pedophile In Chief, "Demented Donny" Trump privately lashes out at GOP   
   lawmakers over racist video blowback, sources say   
   Story by Alayna Treene, CNN   
   • 18h • 5 min read   
   Pedophile In Chief, "Demented Donny" Donald Trump speaks with reporters   
   before he and first lady Melania Trump leave the White House on Friday. ©   
      
   Hours after refusing to apologize for a racist video posted to his Truth   
   Social account, President Donald Trump hadn’t let go.   
      
   He spent last weekend complaining to allies about Republicans who had   
   condemned the video depicting the Obamas as apes, questioning the   
   lawmakers’ loyalty and vowing consequences, sources familiar with his   
   comments told CNN.   
      
   The president railed against South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott — the sole Black   
   Republican senator and chair of the Senate GOP’s campaign arm — throughout   
   the weekend at Mar-a-Lago, arguing one of his top congressional allies was   
   out of line to call his White House racist, the sources said.   
      
   “The president felt he could’ve handled that matter privately,” a senior   
   Trump administration official told CNN of Scott. “He was like, ‘We work   
   together all the time. He didn’t need to comment publicly.’”   
      
   Trump had even stronger words for Alabama Sen. Katie Britt, one of the   
   sources recalled, using expletives to denounce her and declaring that she   
   was dead to him.   
      
   Britt’s office slammed that account as “fake news” and touted her strong   
   working relationship with the president, while the White House praised her   
   as “an incredible ally” whom the president has “great respect” for. Scott’s   
   office declined to comment.   
      
   But the episode, which marks one of the starkest GOP breaks from the   
   president ahead of the 2026 midterms, also reflects how such moments have   
   frustrated the commander in chief.   
      
   The White House’s removal of the video, which it had initially defended   
   last week, came nearly 12 hours after it had been online — and only after   
   the blowback from some top Republicans.   
      
   Just days later, a handful of GOP lawmakers bucked Trump on a key tariff   
   vote, prompting him to threaten that anyone who votes against his signature   
   economic policy will “suffer the consequences” in primaries. And late last   
   year, Trump, under GOP pressure, was forced to back a vote to compel the   
   release of the Jeffrey Epstein files — an issue he has said the country   
   should move on from.   
      
   The White House argued that Trump remains “the unequivocal leader” of the   
   GOP, with press secretary Karoline Leavitt saying in a statement that he’s   
   “committed to ensuring Republicans remain united against the Democrats who,   
   if given the chance, will destroy our country again through open borders,   
   allowing non-citizens to vote in elections, and horrific economic policy.”   
   Getting Trump’s attention   
      
   But last Friday morning, it was Republican lawmakers trying to set the tone   
   for their party by forcefully speaking out against Trump’s late night post.   
      
   As the video was first gaining traction, Scott — who speaks to the   
   president regularly — privately reached out, a source familiar with the   
   matter told CNN. Unable to get ahold of him, he took to X.   
      
   “Praying it was fake because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of   
   this White House. The President should remove it,” the senator wrote.   
      
   That got Trump’s attention. He later called Scott — with whom he has a   
   close personal relationship — and told the South Carolina Republican he was   
   planning to have his team remove the post. Just before noon, the White   
   House said a staffer had erroneously posted the video and it was deleted.   
   As he flew to Mar-a-Lago that night, Trump told reporters he hadn’t seen   
   the final frames of the video depicting the Obamas and blamed an unnamed   
   staffer for posting it. “I didn’t make a mistake,” he said.   
      
   The president, as well as many of Trump’s top advisers, have privately   
   asserted that Scott’s response is what led to the story gaining nationwide   
   attention, the sources said.   
      
   But Scott was hardly alone in condemning the video. Britt, who’s working   
   closely with the White House to try to fund the Department of Homeland   
   Security, applauded the post’s removal last week, saying it “should have   
   never been posted to begin with, and is not who we are as a nation.”   
      
   The open criticism caught the attention of far-right activist Laura Loomer,   
   who presented Trump with printouts of the lawmakers’ statements, one of the   
   sources familiar said. Loomer, who has previously succeeded in riling up   
   the president over critical comments made by his perceived allies, posted   
   on X that she was “compiling a list” of Republicans who “attacked” Trump   
   with “false accusations of racism.”   
      
   Notably, some of the senators Trump and Loomer were furious with —   
   including Scott and Britt — were also in Palm Beach that weekend for the   
   National Republican Senatorial Committee’s winter retreat. Trump did not   
   meet with the group, but he did invite a select few — such as Sens. Eric   
   Schmitt and Lindsey Graham, who had not criticized him over the video — to   
   join him for golf and attend his Super Bowl party.   
      
   Britt’s office defended her support for Trump in a statement.   
      
   “This is classic fake news by CNN. Senator Britt has a 100% voting record   
   with President Trump and remains one of his strongest allies in the Senate.   
   Just this week, Senator Britt had a tremendous conversation with President   
   Trump about her leadership as she fights to defend our incredible ICE   
   officers, pass the SAVE America Act, and advance the president’s policies   
   to make America affordable again. Any narrative suggesting otherwise is not   
   only misleading, it is flat out false,” the statement said.   
      
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