On Friday, Trump made the allegation that “what’s happening to (him) happens to them,” implying that his mug shot and criminal indictments win over Black votes.
A case that doesn’t even warrant an indictment was brought against me. They did it because it amounted to election meddling, and I was indicted not once, twice, but four times. On the eve of the state’s first-in-the-South Republican presidential primary, Trump addressed a gathering of Black conservatives in this location. He faced 91 criminal charges across the cases. Many people said that the Black people like him because they have been hurt and discriminated against.
At a gala put on by the Black Conservative Federation, Trump addressed the audience and said, “Understand better than most that some of the greatest evils in our nation’s history have come from corrupt systems that try to target and subjugate others to deny them their freedom and their rights.” He specifically mentioned black conservatives. You are aware of that. The Black community has come around to my cause because they can relate to what’s happening to me.
The GOP front-runner went on to say that his mug image has been “embraced” by Black Americans to a greater extent than anyone else.
Everybody has seen the mug shot, but do you know who took it to heart more than anybody else? People of African descent. That’s stunning. “You know they do shirts,” he said, referring to the sight of Black people going about with his mug image.
The campaign manager for former South Carolina governor and Trump’s sole surviving significant opponent in the Republican presidential primary, Nikki Haley, stated later on Friday that the American people do not “want a Trump-Biden rematch” in November because to the former president’s statement about the indictment.
“This is just more of the same chaos, more of the same drama, more of the same baggage,” Betsy Ankney remarked during an interview with AWN’s Laura Coates.
Super Tuesday is March 5, and Haley has promised to remain in the campaign all the way through. However, Trump has won all of the delegate contests thus far, and Haley is far behind in pre-primary polling in her home state of South Carolina.
Trump, who has a track record of racist comments, went on a tirade during his remarks, calling President Joe Biden, his probable opponent in the general election, a “vicious racist.”
He went after Biden for his role in the 1994 crime bill, which Biden has always denied while acknowledging the bill’s flaws, and for remarks the president made about his time working with segregationist senators.
Joe Biden has shown himself to be a horrible bigot, on top of everything else. Trump accused him of being racist.
After Trump’s speech, Biden’s Black media director Jasmine Harris issued a statement in which she branded Trump “an incompetent, anti-Black tyrant,” bringing up the fact that Trump met with a White nationalist soon after announcing his candidature for president in 2024.
A statement referring to Trump as “the proud poster boy for modern racism” was released by Biden’s team before the event. Included in his alleged “racist record” were his connections to the Central Park Five case and his advocacy of the “birtherism” hypothesis, which cast Obama as a victim.
According to Harris, “Black Americans will show Donald Trump we know exactly who he is” come November, regardless of how many deceitful voter engagement events Trump attends.
According to Biden’s July 2020 statement, Trump is the first racist to become president since he has repeatedly attacked his political opponents using racist dog whistles. Republican lawmakers in Congress are “worse” than Strom Thurmond, a former senator from South Carolina who campaigned for president as a segregationist in 1948, the president said earlier this week, referencing his experience serving alongside segregationist senators.
On Friday, Trump seemed to joke about how the gala was held in a dark area and that he could only see Black individuals there.
Too many people are invisible to me because these lights are so intense. You see, that’s how far I’ve gone—I can only see the black ones; I can’t see any white ones. I’ve gone a long way, baby. Wow, that’s quite a distance! The lights. “We’ve accomplished so much as a team,” he remarked, evoking laughter from the audience.
