Senator Tim Scott responded to a blogger who accused him of being President Donald Trump’s African-American “prop” at the White House tax reform speech. “What a shocker. There’s ONE black person there and sure enough they have him standing right next to the mic like a manipulated prop,” Andy Ostroy wrote. Scott responded on Twitter, ripping Ostroy’s remarks: “Uh probably because I helped write the bill for the past year, have multiple provisions included, got multiple Senators on board over the last week and have worked on tax reform my entire time in Congress. But if you’d rather just see my skin color, pls feel free.” Scott is the first black senator elected in the South since Reconstruction, and preceded only by a pair of Mississippi Republicans – Hiram Revels, elected in 1870, and Blanche Bruce, elected in 1874.