Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown told Newsmax on Wednesday he wasn’t surprised that Democrats lost the presidential election in November, and that regardless of their candidate, they would have lost because President Donald Trump “is too smart, too clever.”

Brown, 91, speaking to “Finnerty” amid the ongoing riots in Los Angeles following Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in the city, added that Trump’s political skills continue to make the Democratic Party look bad.

“We Democrats would probably have lost that election, no matter who our candidate was going to be,” said Brown, a Democrat and longtime power broker in California who was mayor of San Francisco from 1996 to 2004. “Donald Trump was just too smart, too clever.

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