James Carville on Tuesday said Donald Trump’s administration is trying to do “everything” to draw Americans’ attention to immigration instead of the president’s handling of the economy and his “big, beautiful bill” that could see massive cuts to Medicaid and food assistance.
The Democratic strategist told MSNBC’s Ari Melber that as companies warn of lower earnings and Trump works to get the bill on his agenda through Congress, his Justice Department charged Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) over a skirmish with federal agents outside a New Jersey immigration detention facility.
“I think they’re in the midst of a massive failure,” declared Carville, who argued that the charges against McIver — a Black woman — are racially motivated.
He continued, “The economy is going terribly. He’s passed five things since the Congress started, it’s nothing.”
“And all of a sudden, when you got nothing to go on, ‘Hey, let’s get the Black person and we can change the conversation,’ that’s what I really, really believe.”
