Trump declares "I'm not a racist, I have black friends"
Could he not lean more directly into the cliche? That's like face first here.
Trump has made it official - he is NOT Racist. Because, of course, he has “black friends.”
Former President Donald Trump wants Americans to know that he's not a racist -- and he has the Black friends to prove it.
In an interview with Semafor, Trump touted his relationships with assorted retired Black athletes such as former NFL player Lawrence Taylor and boxer Mike Tyson to shore up his standing with the Black community.
“I have so many Black friends that if I were a racist, they wouldn’t be friends, they would know better than anybody, and fast,” said Trump. “They would not be with me for two minutes if they thought I was racist — and I’m not racist!”
There are some people who will believe this nonsense. Because, clearly, Mike Tyson is is such a great judge of character. I mean, that settles the issue right? He’s got Kanye West and P Diddy in his corner, how could he be “all bad?”
And yet, some people are still kinda skeptical.
"He lost Black voters by a 92-8 margin in his last election, according to a Pew Research study, despite high hopes for a breakthrough that cycle," the report notes. "In 2016, he settled for boasting that fewer Black voters had showed up to the polls that year, which he said was 'almost as good' as their support."
And yeah, black people like him because he’s a criminal too, just like they are.
Donald Trump thinks the justice system is treating him unfairly, and millions of Americans agree. Trump also thinks his recent felony conviction might help him with Black voters in November. And given Blacks’ understandable mistrust of the justice system, he might be right.
New York City District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, elevated what’s normally a minor offense — falsifying business expenses — into to a felony crime, stretched the legal interpretations of the law and statute of limitations, and multiplied the charges (34 of them) to increase the penalties. Bragg got the conviction, with Trump’s sentencing coming on July 11.
Regardless of whether Trump is guilty of wrongdoing, it’s the widespread perception that the Justice Department targeted him for who he is, rather than what he did, that could resonate with Black voters — because many of them feel the justice system also targets them.
For example, Ella Wiley, senior communications associate with the Legal Defense Fund, has written, “It cannot be overlooked how — in addition to vast racial disparities in policing, arrests, and detention — every stage of the criminal justice process following the filing of charges also contributes to the mass incarceration of Black people in this country.”
Frankly, that is a load of crap. As I’ve written before the DOJ and FBI have been systematically protecting Trump for years. He should have been convicted by the FBI and DOJ for being “Individual #1” in the Michael Cohen case. He should have been convicted for 8 counts of Obstruction of Justice in the Mueller case. Rod Rosenstein wouldn’t let Mueller do a counter-intelligence investigation of Trump. The OLC would let Trump be indicted while he was in office. He should have been arrested on Jan 21st for the attack on the Capitol. The FBI didn’t want to do the search warrant on Mar-A-Lago. The FBI is “Trumpland” who leaked info about the Hillary case to help him in 2016. Even Alvin Bragg dropped the case against Trump when he first became DA only to reluctantly pick it up again later when more evidence came in.
The idea that he’s some sort of “victim” is flatly ridiculous.
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