CNN's Jason Miller claims Trump's racist “breeding concept” tweet actually meant “breeding contempt”

Jason Miller: “My first reaction when I saw it, I thought maybe he meant breeding contempt”

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From the April 23 edition of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360:

BAKARI SELLERS: This is about showing that the country is becoming browner in places like California, he has an issue with that.

ANDERSON COOPER: (HOST): Jason, is “breeding concept” as Sarah Sanders says, “the problem itself is growing and getting bigger?

JASON MILLER: Well I think when I first saw it and keep in mind this is last Wednesday so we’re talking almost a week ago. I don’t think I saw it when the president first tweeted it exactly at that moment. My first reaction when I saw it, I thought maybe he meant breeding contempt and that was the phrase that he was using there.

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