Trump Says Blacks Identify With His Indictments

Trump at the Black Conservative Federation Gala last night in South Carolina:

“I got indicted and lot of people said that’s why the Black people like me”
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He was just getting started.

Trump: “Unlike racist Joe Biden, I spent my entire life working with Black Americans to build buildings”

(He forgot to mention the part about the DOJ suing him for refusing to let blacks rent apartments in his buildings.)

No idea what to make of this — same event.

Trump: “These lights are so bright in my eyes I can’t see people… I can only see the Black ones. I can’t see any white ones. That’s how far I’ve come. That’s a long way isn’t it?” — Video

Or this.

Trump at the Black Conservative Federation Gala: “You know Cary Grant? He was this very handsome guy… Sidney Poitier, I thought he was very handsome right?” — Video

“I’m being indicted for the Black population” — Video

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  3. recent op ed from one well known black conservative

    Clarence Page: On Trump’s befuddling hold on the GOP and the fizzling of the ‘Never Trump’ movement (msn.com)

    I’m so old that I can remember when moderate Republicans such as Colin Powell, former secretary of state, clung to hopes that Donald Trump might “grow” into the presidency.
    I don’t hear much talk like that nowadays with Trump leading the polls for the Republican nomination again and his remaining opponent Nikki Haley not expected to win even the primary this coming Saturday in her home state of South Carolina.
    […]
    That brings a cloud of gloom over what’s left of the “Never Trump” movement, the band of former Republican operatives in groups such as the Lincoln Project and Republican Accountability Project, who have been working since Trump’s 2020 election defeat to prevent his return to the White House.
    If there’s one thing Never Trumpers have proven, it’s that they’ve never come close to loosening Trump’s hold on the Republican base.
    “It’s now clear to me that we never had a chance,” my column-writing colleague David French recently wrote in The New York Times. “And the reason is equally clear: We did not truly understand our own party.”
    French’s confession was that it dawned on him only gradually that animosity — not support for core conservative values — was the prime motivator for today’s GOP.
    To me, that was a stunning observation, partly because it was so candid in a political world where candor so often is lost in a fog of excuses and sugar-coating.
    […]
    If David French and I have lost touch with what’s going on with the rank and file in our parties, Donald Trump appears to have the keen grasp of a master salesman. He gives the people what they want — or at least what they think they want after he sells it to them.
    Barack Obama offered us “the audacity of hope,” as he titled his autobiography. Trump offers us the audacity of a pitchman, with the entertainment value of a traveling medicine show mixed in.
    Viewed that way, one begins to understand why he has been able to brush off the indictments and other scandals that would have crippled more conventional campaigners. By recasting his own narrative as that of an earnest advocate for ordinary folks against the rich and politically connected, he bestows a new feeling of importance to his adherents: “When you see them coming after me, you know they’re coming after you.”
    Frankly, I think it’s quite a stretch to view his indictments and lawsuits alleging fraud, sexual assault and insurrection, among other charges, as akin to coming after me — or anybody other than him. But, as I said, he’s a heck of a salesman.
    And that’s what the current presidential campaign is becoming: a grand drama of dueling versions of reality, with us, the voters, sitting in the jury box, hoping to witness some semblance of justice.

  4. more about the rally

    ‘That mug shot is No. 1’: Trump courts Black voters in S.C. with attacks on legal system (msn.com)

    COLUMBIA, South Carolina — On the eve of the South Carolina primary, Donald Trump touted his record with Black voters and vowed to “fight for the Black community like you’ve never had anyone fight for you before.”
    “This is Joe Biden’s worst nightmare, a room of hundreds of proud Black Republicans,” Trump said during a winding speech to a ballroom of conservative Black leaders at the Black Conservative Federation’s annual Honors Gala on Friday night.
    […]
    The former president also tried to compare his own legal challenges to discrimination the African American community has historically faced in America. He further claimed his own indictments have helped him win support among the Black community.
    “A lot of people said that 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 discriminated against,” Trump claimed.
    He said that his mugshot photo from his booking in the Fulton County jail only helped him with Black voters. “When I did the mug shot in Atlanta, that mug shot is No. 1,” Trump claimed. “You know who embraced it more than anyone else? The Black population.”
    The audience appeared to relish Trump’s speech, and he received some of his strongest applause for such lines, which echoed recent public statements in which he compared himself to recently deceased Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

    […]

    But Trump’s support with Black voters languishes around 25%, according to the same poll. In a statement released Friday, the Biden campaign criticized Trump’s attempts to woo Black voters in South Carolina, calling him “the proud poster boy for modern racism.”
    [continues]

  5. one more ‘toon for the road

     

    Attribution: Commander Bites GOP Impeachment by Rick McKee, CagleCartoons.com

  6. Or, when he said he thought they liked “the white President” better than the “black President” for something he claims to have gotten the US a bargain on.

    It was so GD unhinged.  And they ate it up.  Imagine, there’s an entire roomful of Tim Scott’s  ready to express their undying love to this racist.

    This orange monster has been repeatedly sued for workplace discrimination, and for refusing to allow black renters in his properties.  (He did allow them on construction crews, though. Right?)

    How in the heck is SNL going to parody this tonight?   How do you do a caricature of a caricature.  

    If he didn’t need black voters, you can bet he wouldn’t be hanging out with them.   Hmmm, would they be welcome on his golf courses?

  8. All mocking aside, if the poll putting Dumdass’  support at 25% is even remotely accurate, that is a reflection of an increase in Black support from 16% in 2020. That’s a serious concern in the upcoming election.

  9. R.I.P. Flaco

    Flaco the Eurasian Eagle Owl Photograph by Brian Harnick - Fine Art America

    “Flaco the Eurasian Eagle Owl Photograph by Brian Harnick – Fine Art America”

    Flaco, New York City’s beloved owl, dies after striking building | US news | The Guardian

    The Eurasian eagle owl named Flaco, which escaped New York City’s Central Park Zoo last year, has died after crashing into a building in Manhattan, officials said late on Friday.
    Flaco went down after striking a building on West 89th Street and people reported the injured owl to the Wild Bird Fund (WBF), a statement from the Central Park Zoo said. WBF staffers soon found Flaco unresponsive and pronounced him dead at the scene.
    Central Park Zoo officials said they went to pick up Flaco’s remains after being notified of his death by the WBF. The remains were then taken to the Bronx Zoo to undergo a necropsy.
    The Central Park Zoo’s statement said its staff still hoped that the New York police department was able to arrest whoever vandalised Flaco’s enclosure on 2 February last year, allowing the owl to escape the place where he had been an exhibit for 13 years and live in the wild.
    “The vandal who damaged Flaco’s exhibit jeopardised the safety of the bird and is ultimately responsible for his death,” the zoo’s statement said.
    Flaco was rescued by the zoo in 2010, when he was less than a year old. He was reputed to be the only owl of his kind in the wild in North America, and there were widespread fears he ultimately wouldn’t survive for long outside captivity.
    During the year and nearly three weeks he spent in the wild, he demonstrated the ability to catch rats in the park. And his ability to fly strengthened.
    [continues]

  10. Based on my normal everyday delusions Hickey Nailey will do much better today than has been predicted.

  11. Trump’s CPAC speech at noon being billed as his unveiling of “MAGAnomics” to build a better economy (if he sticks to the script). I have distilled some bullet points from facts.org that ought to be hammered home to voters all the way to November because he lies about every one of them all the time.

    What America looked like the day Trump left office:
    — 2.9 million net loss of jobs
    — 6.3%. unemployment
    — Highest trade deficit since 2008
    — 3 million more Americans without health insurance
    — Federal debt up  from $14.4 trillion to $21.6 trillion
    — Home prices up 27.5%
    — Apprehensions at the Southwest border up 4.7%
    — Coal production down 26.5%
    — Coal-mining jobs down 16.7%
    — Highest murder rate since 1997

    Factcheck.org
    https://www.factcheck.org/2021/10/trumps-final-numbers/

  13. You are correct, Pogo, it is an issue.

    The most recent Quinnipiac poll found Biden leading among Black voters 79 percent to 19 percent for Trump. In 2020, according to network exit polls, Black voters supported Biden by a wider margin, 87 percent to 12 percent.

    Two groups are down from their numbers for Biden last time: Young Black and Hispanic men. Almost that alone accounts for the slippage from Biden’s 3.8 point win in 2020 to mostly tied polls now. This is where early polls are useful, to identify problems that need addressing, and this one needs addressing for sure.

  14. https://news.yahoo.com/why-legendary-south-carolina-rep-jim-clyburn-wants-young-voters-to-be-selfish-this-election-100019273.html
     
    “Rep. Jim Clyburn, one of the most influential Democrats in Congress, says young and Black voters could easily determine the 2024 presidential election — and that they need to take that responsibility seriously.”

    “Be selfish, young people, and think about your future,” Clyburn, who recently announced he would be stepping down from his House leadership position, told Yahoo News.
     
     

    Remember the big lineup of Dem candidates in 2020. Remember how dicey it felt going to vote with the virus going full force. Then, remember what Jim Clyburn did right before Super Tuesday to help Joe Biden get the nomination.

  15. My experience on a racially diverse grand jury in Birmingham showed me first hand that voting-citizen Black jurors don’t like crime any more than whites. Hope that still holds true. 

  16. Tried to watch some of CPAC but the rampant racism was too apparent.  That any of the speakers simply seemed not to realize that what was coming out of their mouths was so blatantly anti-minorities was unbelievable.  

  18. Black voters are going to stay away from the Clump in droves. Any polls saying otherwise will be proven wrong.  I’d stake my (ahem) reputation on it.

    Or to put it another way the black voters are going to turn out in record numbers for Biden.

  20. Our open and free elections allow anyone in the world to fuck with them, get your heads in the game

    While everyone’s eyes are on Ukraine, Putin is greatly expanding Russian influence in Africa

  21. Today might be a meaningful vote though I know many democrats claiming they’ll vote for Haley just to screw with Slump.  

  22. Somehow we’ve started receiving a weekly print edition of the Wyoming Livestock Roundup. Mr. Ivy has become an avid reader. Every week it’s one more cow and a crossword puzzle.

    https://www.wylr.net/

  23. Yes Ukraine could be just a bloody feint.  

    And Brump could be just a means of keeping our edges ragged.

    And the idiot republicans think they’re actually going to get to be a PART of something.

    I can’t help but think that Biden’s men and ladies, all of those who are tasked with paying attention to such things are paying full attention and that they are all on top of their game. I DO sometimes wonder what Garland is all about, but whadda I know…..

  26. can’t help but think that Biden’s men and ladies, all of those who are tasked with paying attention to such things

    Don’t put all your chips on the ivy-leaguers, they’re out of touch with middle-America
     
    You aren’t, though 🫡 

  27. david horsey ‘toon and op ed Theocracy comes to Alabama | The Seattle Times

    One way to determine when life begins is to start at the end.
    If death is the end of consciousness, then, arguably, life begins when a person becomes conscious. Clearly, a baby at birth is conscious. There is also a level of awareness in the womb. When does that begin? It may be impossible to pinpoint a fetal dawn, but it certainly is not at conception.
    That is just one way to look at a contentious issue, of course.  A religious counter argument asserts that, at the very moment that sperm meets ova, a child of God comes into being. That theological view is the basis for a ruling handed down this week by the Alabama Supreme Court declaring that even a frozen blastocyst chilled in a nitrogen container is a living person with all the legal rights of any citizen of the United States.
    […]
    You may think life is a matter of consciousness. Or you may think it is connected to the first stirrings of an embryo in the womb. Or you may simply think it is all pretty complicated. But it will not matter what you or I or anyone thinks or believes if the theocrats gain power. As in Alabama, they will use the law to impose their dogma on us all.

  28. speaking of consciousness from LP

    It’s time to face the elephant in the room. It’s impossible to ignore.

  30. This afternoon the orange blob called his wife “Mercedes”.  Oops.  Oh well, the great intertubes said he could have been worse and called her “Beetle” or “Bug” or “Chevy”. Here is a link to AOL

  33. that number is 15% nationwide

    that 15% sets the agenda for the other 34%

    …and you better hope i didn’t underestimate by 2%

    GOTV

  36. Alex Cole
    Fox News: Black people love sneakers, that’s why they will vote for Trump. Trump: People said black people love me because I’m also a criminal.

  37. The Biden Admin currently has a diverse cabinet with many members representing Black and Latinx demographics 
     
    trump admin was all white except for one black person, there’s a term for that

  38. Just rejoined the world. Been learning how much more difficult it is to install glass shower doors than I had any idea – and so much more difficult than the YouTube videos would suggest. And Alabama was getting the shit kicked out of them by Kentucky in the background  
    Gotta drill down and see what of the SC numbers I can misinterpret. 

  39. What I see here is a de facto incumbent president leaving more than a third of his own party’s vote on the table and not doing a damn thing to get them back. All we’ve learned in these early states is he owns the MAGA vote and nothing else.

  40. Haley’s going to keep running because she’s heard a little twitter from behind the grapevine that the orange carbuncle is not going to make it all the way thru and that she should keep her powder dry. She probably got the word along about the time she began to speak out hard against the old orange wart.

     The fix is in but it’s going to be a delicate operation.  Plan on Haley because the head magat is as good as gone.

  41. check out this BS framing from the AP:
     

    JOSH BOAK and LINLEY SANDERS
     
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump won over South Carolina Republicans as the candidate who voters believe can win in November, keep the country safe and has the mental capability to be president.
    Trump cruised to victory…

    No one voted for trump for his “mental capability”

    he “cruised”… 🙄

    you have to dig for the numbers because the MSM wants to anoint him the nominee

  42. The most secret cooler heads in the gop KNOW that they can’t let him be the nominee.
    So they will have no choice but to somehow sink his battleship.

    A further twist would be he’s not only aware of the plan.—he too is PLANNING on it. Government-in-Exile.

  43. secret cooler heads in the gop

    well that’s one well-kept secret!

    like i said, Plan B is a secession movement

    like trying to siphon the black/latinx vote, i didn’t say these were good plans, they’re just the available options to a party that represents a mathematic minority

  44. SFB  read the names of his family, but he didn’t mention Eric. LOL
     

    https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-warns-living-hell-now-biden-team-attacks/story?id=107523090

    “We have languages coming into our country — we don’t have one instructor in our entire nation that can speak that language. These are languages, it’s the craziest thing, they have languages that nobody in this country has ever heard of,” he claimed.

    WTF?

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/24/politics/fact-check-trump-delivers-another-lie-filled-cpac-speech/index.html

    Lies, lies, lies.

  45. Well, Dumbass’ 30 point polling advantage turned out to be a 20 point win. Polling, it’s the new WAG. She’s still in through Super Tuesday. She’s got the money so WhyTF not?

  47. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law/sandy-hook-families-vote-to-liquidate-alex-jones-bankrupt-estate

    “The families of Sandy Hook school shooting victims voted overwhelmingly in favor of a plan to wrap up Alex Jones’ bankruptcy proceedings by liquidating the right wing talk show host’s assets.”

    “Jones’ general unsecured creditors—comprised mostly of Sandy Hook families holding about $1.5 billion in defamation judgments against the famed conspiracy theorist—voted 100% in favor of a Chapter 11 plan that would methodically liquidate and redistribute his property and cash, while preserving potential legal actions against parties affiliated with Jones and his Infowars program.”

    Goody! Next, do tRUMPsky’s assets!

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