Earlier this week, in response to President Donald Trump‘s claim of “success” in the federal response to Puerto Rico despite the 2,975 deaths, CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin said: “Isn’t the story that these people who died – apparently thousands of them in Puerto Rico, 3,000 as you point out – they’re not white people, and they don’t count to Donald Trump as much as the deaths of white people.”

Carlson covered Toobin’s comments (video above, via Fox News) and expressed some surprise, saying of the CNN analyst, “He’s not a bad guy personally. I’ve always liked him, for whatever it’s worth, and unlike so many other people you see on television, he is not stupid.”

He proceeded to show other examples of Toobin calling Trump racist, from his attacks on Maxine Waters being “low IQ” to him saying a lot of people like that Trump is racist.

And he ridiculed Toobin for saying that Trump’s invocation of Antifa at an event for evangelicals was another example of his racism – “this is about Donald Trump’s appeal to racism.”

Toobin responded in a tweet to “my friend Tucker Carlson” today by bringing up the birther issue that Trump trafficked in for years:

My friend .@TuckerCarlson criticizes my claim that @realDonaldTrump was racist. Hey Tucker, where was @BarackObama born? — Jeffrey Toobin (@JeffreyToobin) September 14, 2018

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