Trump blasted for comments on black voters
DONALD Trump’s comment that black voters were more drawn to him after his multiple indictments on criminal charges drew sharp rebukes from his Republican challenger for the presidential nomination, civil rights activists and others.
Mr Trump on Friday 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. He was speaking to a black conservative group in
South Carolina before the state’s primary election, which he went on to win.
‘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,’ Trump said. ‘They actually viewed me as I’m being discriminated against.’
But his remarks were branded ‘disgusting’ by former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who has been the target of racist comments from Mr Trump (above) and has vowed to keep challenging him for the Republican nomination
She reiterated her argument that Mr Trump will again lose the 2024 general election against
President Joe Biden if he secures the party’s nomination. ‘This is a huge warning sign,’ she said.
Mr Biden earlier won the Democratic primary contest in the southern state, where black voters are a critically important constituency.
‘Trump claiming that black Americans will support him because of his criminal charges is insulting. It’s moronic. And it’s just plain racist,’ said Mr Biden’s campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond, who is black. ‘He thinks black voters are so uninformed that we won’t see through his shameless pandering.’
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the National Action Network both blasted Mr Trump’s comments to the Black Conservative Federation.
‘Moronic... and plain racist’