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White House And Political News
Michael Cohen Spills All The Tea On
Trump Wins Because Of Gerrymandering And Voter Suppression
Bev Jackson signs up volunteers for door-to-door campaigning outside of the event featuring Oprah Winfrey and Democratic gu- bernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams at the Cobb Civic Center on Nov. 1, 2018 in Marietta, Georgia.
Donald Trump’s Racist Language: ‘Black
People Are Too Stupid’ To Vote For Him
Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen sat down with Vanity Fair for a candid interview about the anti-Black statements the president made prior to get- ting elected.
Cohen claims that in the late 2000s, during a trip to Chicago, he and Trump “were going from the airport to the hotel, and we drove through what looked like a rougher neighborhood,” when Trump made the comment “only the Blacks could live like this,” Cohen told Vanity Fair writer Emily Jane Fox in an in- terview that was published on Friday by Teads.
The not-so-surprising rev- elation comes days after the White House held a summit of young Black conserva-
Michael Cohen now accuses Trump of using racist language
tives, where Trump cred- ited rapper Kanye West for his increased approval rating amongst Blacks.
In the Vanity Fair inter- view, Cohen is quoted as saying: “I told Trump that the rally looked vanilla on television. Trump re-
sponded: ‘That’s because Black people are too stupid to vote for me.’”
According to a recent Ras- mussen poll, Trump’s ap- proval rating amongst Blacks was 40 percent, the highest it has been since he took office.
President Donald Trump didn’t create our crisis of confidence in one another; he capitalized on it. And now he is appealing to what he assumes are Amer- icans' crass selfishness and greed as he touts the state of the economy and the gains in the stock market at small- scale reenactments of his 2016 MAGA rallies. He is aiming to stoke fears and anxieties among his base with his talk of crime and the so-called ominous “cara- van” of criminals and ter- rorists threatening our border — an old conserva- tive trope, that the supposed barbarians are at the gates.
Over the last two years, we have been inundated with Trump’s antics and Republican policies, and the 24-hour news cycle and so-
cial media keep him in front of our faces daily. In the po- litical theater he has cre- ated, he now plays the race card with his “America First” message, hoping that it can help Republicans keep control of Congress.
But voters across the country must hold a firm grip on reality because, for the first time since Donald Trump took control of the executive branch and the Republican Party, Ameri- cans across the country have an opportunity to make their voices heard at the bal- lot box. And they need to re- member, now and after this election, that it wasn’t Trump’s message that worked in 2016. It was voter suppression, gerrymander- ing and the Electoral Col- lege.
Donald Trump Jr. Tweets Out A Neo-Nazi Dog Whistle
Perhaps because they are running scared, the Trump family—and Republicans in general—are going all-in on a campaign of overt racism and white supremacist dog whistles to rally MAGA vot- ers across the country as Tuesday’s midterm elections approach.
And in a continual effort to please his racist daddy, Donald Trump, Jr. is doing his part to spread the hate.
On Saturday, Don Jr. tweeted an attack against in- dependent Maine Senator Angus King that could have come straight from the white supremacist Iowa Republican congressman Steve King. It had the stan- dard fearmongering of the “other,” in this case, Syrian and “Somalian” refugees; it criticized Democratic Sen.
DONALD TRUMP, JR.
Chuck Schumer, who is Jewish; and for good meas- ure, it included the dog whis- tle term “88,” which neo-Nazis use as code for “Heil Hitler.”
And no, it wasn’t a typo. “Angus King is a Fake In- dependent who votes with Schumer 88% of the time. Angus wants to repopulate Maine with Syrian and So-
malian refugees. Sup- port @SenatorBrakey who fights for secure borders and Better Jobs for Maine. #me #maine,” Don Jr. tweeted.
“Repopulate.” Where have we heard that concept, which is linked to the myth of “white genocide,” before? Oh, that’s right—Steve King.
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