Trump says his criminal indictments boosted his appeal to Black voters ( apnews.com )

Former President Donald Trump claimed Friday that his four criminal indictments have boosted his support among Black Americans because they see him as a victim of discrimination, comparing his legal jeopardy to the historic legacy of anti-Black prejudice in the U.S. legal system.

Trump argues he is the victim of political persecution, even though there is no evidence President Joe Biden or White House officials influenced the filing of 91 felony charges against him. Earlier in the week, Trump compared himself to Alexei Navalny, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top domestic rival, who died in a remote Arctic prison after being jailed by the Kremlin leader.

“I got indicted for nothing, for something that is nothing,” Trump told a black-tie event for Black conservatives in South Carolina ahead of Saturday’s Republican primary. “And a lot of people said that’s why the Black people like me, because they have been hurt so badly and discriminated against, and they actually viewed me as I’m being discriminated against. It’s been pretty amazing but possibly, maybe, there’s something there.”

ChihuahuaOfDoom ,

Yes, discrimination, that's exactly why he is facing 91 counts.

octopus_ink ,

Yes, discrimination, that’s exactly why he is facing 91 counts.

Trump: See? I'm being disproportionately targeted by the justice system. Just like 'the blacks.'

autotldr Bot ,

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Trump argues he is the victim of political persecution, even though there is no evidence President Joe Biden or White House officials influenced the filing of 91 felony charges against him.

Earlier in the week, Trump compared himself to Alexei Navalny, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top domestic rival, who died in a remote Arctic prison after being jailed by the Kremlin leader.

In telling a story about how he renegotiated the cost of remodeling Air Force One, Trump criticized his predecessor, former President Barack Obama, the first Black person to be elected to the White House.

Black voters who spoke with The Associated Press ahead of the gala expressed skepticism that Republicans, and Trump in particular, could persuade them to switch parties.

Isaac Williams Sr., a retired cook from Columbia and a lifelong Democrat, said he disliked both parties but found Trump to “have mobster tendencies.

In 1989, he took out full-page newspaper ads calling for New York state to reinstate the death penalty as five Black and Latino teenagers were set to stand trial for beating and raping a white woman in Central Park.

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sanguine_artichoke ,
@sanguine_artichoke@midwest.social avatar

Of course it’s bullshit that he’s being targeted politically - if anything, he’s gotten away with this for years due to his political status. But anyway, being targeted politically is not the same thing at all as being targeted due to bigotry. What a schmuck.

ULS ,

😮

octopus_ink ,

“And a lot of people said that’s why the Black people like me, because they have been hurt so badly and discriminated against, and they actually viewed me as I’m being discriminated against. It’s been pretty amazing but possibly, maybe, there’s something there.”

I may have never read a more delusional, tone-deaf, preposterous, and wholly fabricated crock of bullshit in my entire life. Does he dream these things up himself or does he somehow still have yes-men who feed these hallucinations to him?

What the fucking hell? I mean, even the most die-hard Trump-is-my-god-emporer-forever-I-will-topple-democracy-for-him maga has got to know that this is absolute horseshit, right?

s0ckpuppet ,

Remember when Trump took out a 1 page ad in the paper calling for the death penalty for the central park 5?

Pepperidge Farm remembers

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6131533-trumpdeathpenaltyad05011989

squiblet ,
@squiblet@kbin.social avatar

Even better, he continued AFTER they were exonerated, got a settlement, and someone else confessed and was convicted based on DNA evidence. If there’s one thing this chump can’t do, it’s ever admit he was wrong. Oh, and another, he can’t just stfu about something.

https://people.com/politics/central-park-five-netflix-donald-trump-real-story/

norbert ,
@norbert@kbin.social avatar

It's important to point out they were all cleared after the fact and were released after serving years in prison. NYC settled with The Exonerated 5 for $41 million dollars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park_jogger_case

Everythingispenguins ,

I bet you anything that he comes up with the early versions of these crazy ideas then tells them to some personal bootlicker who then repeats them back the next day, to distract him from bad news. His brain is such swiss cheese that he thinks it is the first time hearing it. Repeat a few times and now it is fact.

ShadowRam ,

Fox news told him black-voters like him because of this golden sneakers..

So in his brain right now, he thinks black-voters like him,

Thinking why that is, he knows black people historically were treated unfair by the court system, and apparently he is too,

So he thinks himself a genius with smart gene's that he linked those two thoughts together, and thinks that's another reason why black-voters must like him.

He's been spitting out everything he can hoping some victimization will stick... Jew prosecution, Navalny, etc. Dude's a moron, and I still can't believe there are people dumb enough to be fooled by such low effort manipulation.

fadingembers ,
@fadingembers@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I don't remember where I read this, and I'm hoping someone may remind me, but it's a purity/loyalty test for fascists to say ridiculous, reality-defying things to their audience.

frezik ,

It's been less than a week since a Fox News said black people love the idea that Trump is releasing a line of sneakers. Buckle up, this won't be the most tone deaf thing you read this year.

eran_morad ,

Jfc

IWantToFuckSpez ,

guess Trump misunderstood that title of that show called “Orange is the New Black”

Everythingispenguins ,

Okay that is good 👍

twistypencil ,

Submit to late night

sturmblast ,

lol great comment

Endorkend ,

It's incredible how weird their racism has gotten.

They were openly racist before.

Now they reverted to some weird form of ignorant racism.

Black people vote for us because of golden shoes.
Black people vote for us because we're criminals.

blargerer ,

Trump just jumbles whatever the last few people he talked to told him and regurgitates it. He surrounds himself with an ever-changing mire of idiots and racists of all kinds.

TigrisMorte ,

Don't excuse the rest of the party, Trump is just leading the ones too stupid to keep quiet about the racism.

grabyourmotherskeys ,

These groups are very insular. At mar-a-lago over cocktails or whatever, you can probably spout of classist nonsense without anyone batting an eye with polite silence greeting really overt racism. I seriously doubt anyone there would stand up and challenge you saying that kind of thing.

But I'm guessing these people go way further behind closed doors. And this is how they think what they say is acceptable. The more insular, the bigger the gap between between what real people think is ok and what the people in these privileged spaces think is ok.

What we need is for someone to leak video of Trump saying the stuff they say in backrooms. If you'll recall there is precedent for this.

Search your favorite way for "Trump leaked audio".

thecrotch ,

It's a delicate balance between courting the black vote and not alienating their base of ignorant rednecks and full on white supremacists

TigrisMorte ,

courting the 3/5 vote to be precise.

Keineanung ,

Wow... That's really... Wow...

TigrisMorte ,

This has been the Republican Party since Civil Rights, the Media is only now pointing it out.

MxM111 ,

Well, no. If you do not see the difference between old republicans and Trampists, you are not serious.

octopus_ink ,

Discretion?

Or are we talking pre-Southern-Strategy?

MxM111 ,

The amounts of lies per second
No commitment to peaceful transfer of power

octopus_ink ,

Ah fair enough. While the behavior may be different I'm increasingly convinced the thoughts and motivations have remained the same.

MxM111 ,

I really do not think so. Trump is clinically narcistic and sociopathic and his thoughts and motivation are totally screwy, even for republican.

octopus_ink ,

We'll have to agree to disagree given how unpopular it remains to this day to come out against Trump as a Republican. I know it's being done, but they supported him for years, and many still do. And yes that includes any rank and file who continued to vote R and weren't on a letter writing campaign to their representatives the entire time asking them WTF they were doing to the country.

MxM111 ,

Oh! The republican behavior is similar to the past. "Though shell not vote against republican" even if it is Trump. The Trump himself, however, is unique.

octopus_ink ,

Ah we've been slightly talking past each other then. My apologies if I misconstrued prior context. 🙂

MxM111 ,

Yeah, I got this gist. I was always talking about Trump himself, since he was a topic of the original post. And it looks like you were expanding conversation to the republican party, which I did not catch. I do not think we have actual disagreements then.

octopus_ink ,

Yep I think you are right! 👍

TigrisMorte ,

And if you don't see that they are the same they've been for 50 years you are blind.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

It's more like they're the same people, they just didn't realize they could still get away with it.

ShadowRam ,

Were they not claiming there was no racial discrimination in the legal system during his term?

sturmblast ,

It's so great how racist our former president is.... god I hate Trump

Semi-Hemi-Demigod ,
@Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social avatar

Crazy thing is that he’s not even the most racist president we’ve had.

thecrotch ,

Tbf he wasn't given an opportunity. Society wouldn't have allowed him to introduce jim crow, throw 200,000 Japanese Americans into concentration camps, or commit genocide on the choctaw. I'm sure he would do all those things and more if the pesky deep state wasn't holding him back.

Nastybutler ,

Not his fault he was born in the wrong era

BruceTwarzen ,

You know what these blacks really like? Crime and sneakers.

rustyfish ,
@rustyfish@lemmy.world avatar

“I got indicted for nothing, for something that is nothing,” Trump told a black-tie event for Black conservatives in South Carolina ahead of Saturday’s Republican primary. “And a lot of people said that’s why the Black people like me, because they have been hurt so badly and discriminated against, and they actually viewed me as I’m being discriminated against. It’s been pretty amazing but possibly, maybe, there’s something there.”

So there is nothing? The number of people you talk about equals zero? Hey you said it, not me.

OhStopYellingAtMe ,
@OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world avatar

“Black voters don’t like Biden because he’s an old white man.”

“But trump is an old white man too.”

“Aha, but he’s an old white man with white-collar criminal indictments and a sneaker line!”

thecrotch ,

You've got to admire his commitment to not giving a shit what he says or how it looks. Not exactly a quality I'm looking for in my president though.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

Because a lot of it he honestly believes and doesn’t think it’s wrong to say if it’s true. This is probably one of those times.

GladiusB ,
@GladiusB@lemmy.world avatar

I admire it in a gameshow host

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