Leaked audio reveals Trump relished low Black turnout in 2016 election

Tootsie Warhol, a lawyer-turned-activist, provided POLITICO with the audio recording. On January 16, 2017, shortly before his inauguration, Donald Trump addressed a group of civil rights leaders behind closed doors at Trump Towers and admitted that low Black voter turnout in the 2016 election gave him the presidency. “Many Blacks didn’t go out to vote for Hillary ’cause they liked me. That was almost as good as getting the vote, you know, and it was great,” the president-elect said in an audio recording of the meeting shared with POLITICO. READ MORE: Kansas GOP Rep....