Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats love nothing more than vilifying Donald Trump and his supporters every chance they get. That’s why it came as a huge surprise when a former Obama aide spoke out to defend Trump voters in a new interview.

Daily Caller reported that former Obama aide Johanna Maska admitted on Monday that Trump supporters are not racist and instead claimed they had just been “misled.” She said this during a segment of “The Daily Briefing” with Dana Perino on Fox News.

Perino opened the segment by showing a video of former Vice President Joe, who had recently appealed to voters by admitting that his party had “stopped talking to them.”

“You know Vice President Biden. You worked for him,” Perino said to Maska. “I would imagine he was frustrated during the 2016 campaign when Hillary Clinton said the word ‘deplorable.’ It was something that he would not have said initially.”

“I think she expressed regret,” Maska said, defending Clinton

“I think for Joe Biden it’s personal because he is from Scranton, Pennsylvania. And so when you grow up in a place where they voted for President Obama and then they voted for President Trump you know that Trump voters are not deplorable. They are not racist and they are not bad people, but they were misled,” Maska said. “Now is the time for the Democrats to be talking to all voters. No one should be off the table.”

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“Not if they want to win,” Perino said in agreement.

This comes after Obama himself spoke out to condemn Trump after the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. Though he did not mention Trump by name, it was clear that he was trying to bash the president when he said that Americans must “soundly reject language” from any political leader who “feeds a climate of fear and hatred or normalizes racist sentiments.”

Obama went on to try and remind Americans that “we are not helpless” in the face of mass shootings.

“First, no other nation on Earth comes close to experiencing the frequency of mass shootings that we see in the United States … Every time this happens, we’re told that tougher gun laws won’t stop all murders; that they won’t stop every deranged individual from getting a weapon and shooting innocent people in public places. But the evidence shows they can stop some killings,” Obama said. “Second, while the motivations behind these shootings may not yet be fully known, there are indications that the El Paso shooting follows a dangerous trend: troubled individuals who embrace racist ideologies and see themselves obligated to act violently to preserve white supremacy.”

Obama likely would not be happy to see one of his former aides defending those who voted for Trump in any way.