Ja’Ron Smith, the White House’s highest ranking aide, said he saw the “true conscience” of President Trump in a moment of “national racial consciousness”.
In his GOP convention speech Thursday night, Smith recounted how he grew up in Cleveland, and witnessed the crack-cocaine epidemic “up close and personal” in the 1980s, when his mother worked at a gas station and his father shoveled snow and paved streets. Smith later attended Howard University.
He said he never knew growing up a Republican.
“I believed all the stereotypes,” the White House assistant continued. “It took Republicans to meet who shared my values to show me I was wrong.”
“And, in the course of the murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and LeGend Taliferro – a moment of national racial consciousness – I saw his true conscience,” Smith said. “I just wish every American could see the profound empathy he showed to families whose loved ones were murdered in senseless violence.”
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Smith said every issue that was important to Black communities was “a priority” for Trump – prison reform, returning jobs to America, funding for historic Black colleges and universities, and working for school choice.
“President Trump has made it clear that if you want to have a safe community, you have to have a police department and that the department has to have the highest standards,” Smith said. “After decades of a broken system, broken schools, and broken communities, people no longer want broken promises.”
The assistant concluded, “For a New Yorker, he has a lot of Cleveland heart.”
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Smith has worked on criminal law issues in the White House and helped author an executive order on policing. He has worked with Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and architect of some of his policies, and Trump has taken to calling him “my star” in meetings, according to a New York Times report.
