Dem senator: White supremacists are ‘sprinkled around the White House’

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) in an interview on Sunday agreed with Rep. Frederica Wilson’s (D-Fla.) claim that there are white supremacists in the Trump administration, saying they are “sprinkled around the White House.”

“I agree that Steve Bannon is a white supremacist, and Stephen Miller seems to be, and I know that studies have shown they have their allies sprinkled around the White House,” Brown told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” on Sunday. 

{mosads}Brown’s comments come after Wilson told The New York Times last week that “the White House itself is full of white supremacists.” 

Her comments came amid a feud with President Trump and his chief of staff, John Kelly. 

Wilson said last week that Trump made insensitive remarks to the widow of Army Sgt. La David Johnson during a phone call in which he said Johnson “knew what he signed up for.”

Trump denied Wilson’s claim, and criticized her in several tweets. 

Kelly also offered an emotional defense of Trump, calling Wilson an “empty barrel,” and saying he was stunned to learn she had listened in on the call and spoke to the media about it. 

The chief of staff also mischaracterized Wilson’s remarks at a 2015 dedication ceremony of an FBI building in Miami during his criticism.

“I feel very sorry for him because he feels such a need to lie on me and I’m not even his enemy,” Wilson told the Times. “I just can’t even imagine why he would fabricate something like that. That is absolutely insane. I’m just flabbergasted because it’s very easy to trace.”