Trump tirade on ‘racist’ DAs echoes other racist tropes
2 years, 10 months ago

Trump tirade on ‘racist’ DAs echoes other racist tropes

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Looking out at a sea of faces at a Texas fairground, most of them white, former President Donald Trump seethed about his legal troubles and blamed them on malicious prosecutors. That’s among the fears stoking the white supremacy movement, the so-called “white replacement theory” that people of color will supplant whites in the country’s power dynamics and social structure. So this is just a rerun of what we’ve seen in our country,” said one Black district attorney, Brian Middleton of Fort Bend County, Texas, which lies southwest of central Houston. “It intensifies that discourse and makes it explicitly racial,” said Casey Kelly, a communications professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who for years has pored over transcripts of Trump’s speeches. And now Trump is using the investigations against him — and the prosecutors behind them — as “evidence of a larger systemic pattern that white people don’t have a place in the future of America and he’s the only one that can fight on their behalf,” Kelly said.

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

'Agitated,' 'rude' and 'racist': Ex-GOP chairman tears into Trump's NABJ fiasco

Raw Story  

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Resurfaced video shows JD Vance saying some of Trump’s base are racist
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Resurfaced video shows JD Vance saying some of Trump’s base are racist

The Independent  

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Trump buried for latest treatment of Black voters like they're 'stupid'
6 months, 3 weeks ago

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Raw Story  

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Donald Trump’s comment on Black Americans: Nikki Haley calls it ‘disgusting’

Live Mint  

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Hindustan Times  

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Trump says his criminal indictments boosted his appeal to Black voters
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Trump says his criminal indictments boosted his appeal to Black voters

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — 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. “I got indicted for nothing, for something that is nothing,” Trump told a black-tie …

How Trump’s attacks on prosecutors build on history of using racist language and stereotypes
1 year, 4 months ago

How Trump’s attacks on prosecutors build on history of using racist language and stereotypes

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s aggressive response to his fourth criminal indictment in five months follows a strategy he has long used against legal and political opponents: relentless attacks, often infused with language that is either overtly racist or is coded in ways that appeal to racists. Trump spokesman Steven Cheung pushed back against the idea that the former president …

Donald Trump was accused of racism long before his presidency, despite what online posts claim
54 years, 11 months ago

Donald Trump was accused of racism long before his presidency, despite what online posts claim

Associated Press  

CLAIM: Donald Trump was never called a racist until he ran for president. Black pastors also accused the New York businessman of stirring racial animus during the “Central Park Five” rape case in the 1980s. Trump was also a leading voice of the “birther” conspiracy that baselessly claimed former President Barack Obama was from Africa and not an American citizen. …

Trump tirade on ‘racist’ prosecutors echoes other racist tropes
2 years, 10 months ago

Trump tirade on ‘racist’ prosecutors echoes other racist tropes

LA Times  

Looking out at a sea of faces at a Texas fairground, most of them white, former President Trump seethed about his legal troubles and blamed them on malicious prosecutors. That’s among the fears stoking the white supremacy movement, the so-called “white replacement theory” that people of color will supplant white people in the country’s power dynamics and social structure. “It …

Trump targets ‘white privilege’ training as ‘anti-American’
4 years, 3 months ago

Trump targets ‘white privilege’ training as ‘anti-American’

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has directed the Office of Management and Budget to crack down on federal agencies’ anti-racism training sessions, calling them “divisive, anti-American propaganda.” OMB director Russell Vought, in a letter Friday to executive branch agencies, directed them to identify spending related to any training on “critical race theory,” “white privilege” or any other material that teaches …

Trump targets federal agencies’ anti-racism training as ‘anti-American’
4 years, 3 months ago

Trump targets federal agencies’ anti-racism training as ‘anti-American’

LA Times  

President Trump has directed the Office of Management and Budget to take aim at federal agencies’ anti-racism training sessions, calling them “divisive, anti-American propaganda.” OMB director Russell Vought, in a letter Friday to executive branch agencies, directed them to identify spending related to any training on “critical race theory,” “white privilege” or any other material that teaches or suggests that …

Trump gives credence to false, racist Harris theory
4 years, 4 months ago

Trump gives credence to false, racist Harris theory

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday gave credence to a false and racist conspiracy theory about Kamala Harris’ eligibility to be vice president, fueling an online misinformation campaign that parallels the one he used to power his rise into politics. “It’s been recognized since the people drafted it back in the 39th Congress that amendment would cover people not …

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