Rev. Jesse hailed Donald in ’90s

The Rev. Jesse Jackson once praised Donald Trump for being a “friend” who embraced “the underserved communities.”

“We need your building skills, your gusto . . . for the people on Wall Street to represent diversity,” Jack- son, a civil-rights leader, said at a Rainbow Push Coalition event in 1999.

And at a 1998 event in front of the same organization, Jackson said, “I now want to bring forth a friend — well, he is deceptive in that his social style is of such, one can miss his seriousness and commitment to success, which is beyond argument.

“When we opened this Wall Street project . . . He gave us space at 40 Wall Street, which was to make a statement about our hav- ing a presence there.”

The Daily Caller unearthed the video of the former Democratic presidential candidate in the wake of Trump being accused by his political opponents of being “racist.”