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Trump Keeps Bragging About Endorsements from Black People — Only Problem Is Many Are on His Payroll
Surprise, surprise!
Donald Trump has long been after the black vote. After his performative pardoning of a few prominent cases of black people convicted for the same crimes white people committed, but were sentenced to much harsher terms, he tried to take credit for the decrease in the black unemployment rate — that was already on its way down when he entered office.
To top it off, he’s claimed multiple times now that he has support from black people because he has been embroiled in the legal system. He thinks he can compare his “persecution” to the systematic racism still present in our justice system.
Now, he’s being even more shameless.
He’s organized an entirely astroturfed “coalition” of “Black Americans For Trump,” as though there’s some movement afoot.
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In fact, his campaign came out and made a big announcement about it, as though HE’D been approached by them.
What they failed to mention is that among the names of those in the group were at least three people currently on his payroll. They released the list on Saturday, and it had all kinds of names on it, from former legislators to former football players.
Didn’t take long for the woman from Trump’s staged Atlanta Chick-fil-A "hug a Black woman" event to show up at Mar-a-Lago pic.twitter.com/2x6gXBwWu8
— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) June 8, 2024
But it also had the names of three people who are employed by Trump, and he conveniently left that part out.
According to The New Republic, those names are “former RNC official Gina Barr (who is currently titled as the Trump campaign’s Executive Director of Black Coalitions), Trump campaign spokesman Janiyah Thomas, and senior Trump advisor Lynne Patton—who has received more than $233,000 in ‘payroll’ disbursements from the Trump campaign, according to data from the Federal Election Commission.”
Thomas wasted no time after joining the “coalition” in sounding exactly like a campaign spokesperson, and framing the entire effort as being representative of black Americans who feel left in the dust by the Democrats:
“While Black Americans have been left behind by Joe Biden, President Trump has prioritized the Black community. Donald J. Trump’s coalition message to the Black community is simple: If you want to return to the policies that created rising wages, more quality jobs, stronger borders, and safer neighborhoods, then join Black Americans for Trump and vote for President Trump in November.”
Well, well, lookie what we have here🤷
It's the Black Woman from the Chick-fil-A staged photo op in Atlanta some months ago.
THEN she was in Detroit yesterday…what a coincidence 🤣
Everything Trump does is a lie! https://t.co/DpKpjMcWKe— Dreday1127 (@AndreBJones2) June 16, 2024
It’s a blatantly naked effort to garner whatever small portion of a voting demographic that rarely goes Republican — of the last ten black US Senators, only a few remain, and all but one are Democrats.
Biden essentially has the black vote on lock, with no effort whatsoever. Marginalized groups like black people, women, the LGBTQ+ community, and immigrants know that only one party actually cares about them.
"The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg reacts to Donald Trump visiting a Black church in Detroit this weekend:
"They keep saying, you know, 'Black people are going to him.' Can we look at the church?"
*shows footage of church full of white Trump supporters* pic.twitter.com/ZcVFoYrinp
— The Recount (@therecount) June 17, 2024
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