In a recent event, former President Donald Trump’s comments on Black voters have drawn sharp criticism from both his Republican challenger for the presidential nomination and Democrats.
Trump’s Controversial Remarks
Trump, while addressing a Black conservative group in South Carolina before the state’s primary election, asserted that Trump’s Comments on Black Voters were more drawn to him after his multiple indictments on criminal charges. He likened his 91 criminal charges in four separate criminal cases to discrimination faced by Black Americans and said that they had come to “embrace” his mug shots.
Trump went on to say, “They viewed me as I’m being discriminated against.” He further added, “And then I got indicted a second time and a third time and a fourth time. And a lot of people said that that’s why the Black people like me because they have been hurt so badly and discriminated against”.
The Backlash
Over the weekend, civil rights activists, Trump’s Republican opponent for the presidential nomination, and others sharply criticized his remarks. Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who has been the target of racist comments from Trump and vowed to keep challenging him for the Republican nomination, told reporters, “It’s disgusting”.
Haley reiterated her argument that Trump will again lose the 2024 general election against US President Joe Biden if he secures the party’s nomination. “This is a huge warning sign,” she said.
Biden campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond, who is Black, said on Saturday, “Trump claiming that Black Americans will support him because of his criminal charges is insulting. It’s moronic. And it’s just plain racist”.
Both the NAACP and National Action Network denounced Trump for his remarks to the Black Conservative Federation, claiming that he incorrectly connected the discussion of systematic racial bias in the US to his purported crimes. criminal justice system.
Trump’s Denial
Trump has denied any wrongdoing and referred to the cases against him as an election-meddling political witch hunt. “I’m being indicted for you, the Black population,” he told the conference on Friday.
Trump was speaking to a Black conservative group in South Carolina before the state’s primary election, which he went on to win. He asserted that Trump’s Comments on Black Voters were more drawn to him after his multiple indictments on criminal charges. He likened his 91 criminal charges in four separate criminal cases to discrimination faced by Black Americans.
Trump’s Comments on Black Voters
In contrast to the historical injustices Black Americans have faced in the criminal justice system, Trump’s legal challenges—which include federal charges over his alleged attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss and his handling of classified documents, in addition to state charges and civil lawsuits—are very different.
About 60% of those taking part in Saturday’s Republican contest were white voters who consider themselves evangelical or born-again Christians, exit polling showed. Trump’s campaign finished the third quarter of 2023 with more than $37 million on hand, while Haley’s campaign finished the quarter with more than $11 million, according to FEC filings.
The NAACP answered in a Saturday post on X, theretofore Twitter, saying: “This wouldn’t be whenever Trump first compared Darkness with culpability. Let’s get straight to the end: We don’t share anything for all goals and purpose.”
Conservative U.S. Agent Bryon Donald, who is Dark, on Sunday, protected Trump’s comments, suggesting NBC News that Dark Americans see Trump’s multiple legal ensnarements as “‘assuming that the public authority’s pursuing him with stupidity, he can’t be simply terrible.'” Donald trump is not an anti-democracy so, it is the best leader in the world because democracy is very important for world peace mostly for Asia countries.
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