Trump Claims Support From Black And Hispanic Communities ‘Has Skyrocketed’ Due to Mugshot
Trump Claims Support From Black And Hispanic Communities ‘Has Skyrocketed’ Due to Mugshot
Trump told a group of African-American supporters on Wednesday that his support in the Black community has "skyrocketed" because of his mugshot.
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Since he’s the one saying it- there’s no chance it’s true.
Yeah, I don't believe that to be true.
Even if it somehow were true in his magical alternative fact reality, him saying this doesn't help his numbers lol..
Here's what I don't get....
He spends so many decades spewing racist bullshit including having a substancial role in getting 5 completely innocent black men locked up for attacks in central park during the 80s. Despite indisputable evidence that those men had nothing to do with the rape, he STILL said they were released too early.
Somehow this helps his popularity with his racist base, because they're racist shitheads too. So they relate to him on that level. He spends 2012-2016 calling Obama a criminal. His base eats it up.
He spends all of the 2016 campaign calling Hillary a criminal. And Joe Biden's son a criminal. He prints up all these campaign merch items with the slogan "Lock her up".
He spends all of the 2016 election calling all mexicans low class criminals who only want to jump the border to sell drugs, and murder babies.
Everything I've said has polled well with his base. Because his base is open and willing to say they don't like blacks, and they don't like mexicans. They willingly believe that being black or mexican makes you a criminal. Their thoughts, not mine btw.
So, if your entire base looks down on these groups for being criminals, and now your guy is a 34X convicted criminal, then I understand their reaction to just claim the convictions were a fraud. It's their only coping mechinism, to say the whole thing is a sham.
Buuuuuut, if you look down on blacks and mexicans "for being criminals", and you excuse your guy for being a criminal as part of a sham, theeeeeen.....why would they be ok with him basically saying "Whats up, homies? Whats up fellow criminals? I'm one of you! Vote for me!"
Wouldn't his base be disenfranchised by their guy chumming it up with the groups they look down on? Shouldn't that go against everything they stand for?
Again, hypothetically speaking, since all of this is make believe anyways.
Trump claims— I’m just gonna stop you right there.
It isn't the mugshot.
Wow. Both Steve and Irina?
I wonder if there's actually some truth to his claim. The experience of blacks with the justice system is quite different than that of whites, so I wouldn't be surprised if their attitude towards a candidate with felony convictions would also be different. Perhaps they're more likely to believe the narrative of an unfair prosecution than white people are.
I seriously doubt that communities marginalized by the justice system would ever take claims of unfair prosecution seriously from possibly the most privileged white guy ever...
Are you saying you dislike felons, so black people must think highly of them? Like, did this actually make sense in your head when you typed it out?!?