Former President Donald Trump claims his multiple criminal indictments have boosted his support among Black Americans because they see him as a victim of discrimination.

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.”

  • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    “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!”

  • BilboBargains@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Say what you like about this guy, he has a sense of humour. The only problem is his supporters don’t get the joke.

  • hOrni@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Imma just copy my previous comment: Next time he’ll just say “Black people like me, because I’m a criminal. And they are also all criminals.”

      • thecrotch@sh.itjust.works
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        5 months ago

        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.

    • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      5 months ago

      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.’

  • sanguine_artichoke@midwest.social
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    5 months ago

    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.

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    5 months ago

    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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  • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    5 months ago

    “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?

    • Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      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.

    • frezik@midwest.social
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      5 months ago

      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.

    • fadingembers@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      5 months ago

      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.

    • ShadowRam@kbin.social
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      5 months ago

      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.