U.S. President Donald Trump responded on Wednesday to comments made earlier in the day by former vice president and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden calling him the first "racist" president, saying that he's done "more for Black Americans than anybody with the possible exception of Abraham Lincoln, touting criminal justice reform and saying Black unemployment was at a record low.

While Biden made the claim, history has shown the country has had leaders in the past who were openly racist, such as enslavers, or expressed racist views or language.

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