MSNBC Host Has Latest Trump Racism Charge

Lawrence O'Donnell is the latest media person to level racism charges against potential political candidate Donald Trump.

In fact, O'Donnell charged on Wednesday's "The Last Word" that NBC knows if Trump will run for President.

He insisted that NBC settle the question right away and avoid being part of what he called Trump's "campaign to legitimize hatred and racism."

NBC declined to comment on the statements by its own employee.

Trump did speak with TMZ on Thursday and he denied charges by CBS News host Bob Schieffer that he was racist for commenting to the AP that Barack Obama didn't deserve to go to an Ivy League school.

Trump has said he will reveal his presidential plans after the May 22 season finale of "Celebrity Apprentice."
One of the most respected journalists at CBS is joining in a chorus of Donald Trump critics, calling the GOP presidential candidate a racist.

Bob Schieffer is a former CBS evening news anchor and has been at CBS since 1969. And in a candid editorial last night, Schieffer trumped the Donald with the race card.

But Schieffer wasn’t angry about Trump’s role in the controversial birther movement.

Schieffer is irate about a Trump interview with the AP, where Trump said Obama wasn’t qualified to go to an Ivy League university.

"That's just code for saying he got into law school because he's black. This is an ugly strain of racism that's running through this whole thing,” Schieffer said about Trump’s comments.

On Wednesday, former Philadelphia Mayor Wilson Googe made similar remarks about Trump, in an interview with Fox 29.

“When you look at the people who are concerned, it is a camouflage for race," Goode said about the birthers and their top advocate, Donald Trump.

"There are people who really don't think he should be President. Never supported him, never will support him, and they are looking for every single excuse this is to detract from him, and try and be negative in every way they can, and so it is all about his race," Goode said.