Trump doubles down on racist video, saying no staffer has been disciplined

US president, who blamed aide for post depicting Obamas as apes, maintains video is not a problem

Donald Trump on Thursday continued to brush off widespread backlash over a racist video posted to his social media account last week, and said no White House staffer had faced consequences for the offensive post.

Asked by Weijia Jiang of CBS News on Thursday whether he had fired or disciplined that staffer who posted the video from your account that included the Obamas", Trump said that he had not.