Summary

Melik Abdul, a GOP strategist and Black Americans for Trump Coalition member, criticized Donald Trump on CNN for blaming a D.C. plane crash on DEI policies without evidence.

Abdul expressed frustration that Trump’s focus on divisive issues, rather than economic policies, is making it harder for Black supporters to defend him.

He warned that Trump’s recent rise in Black voter support isn’t guaranteed.

  • @[email protected]
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    1324 hours ago

    I’m as shocked as you are that the first tool Trump reaches for is scapegoating. You’d think after a decade of blaming problems on minorities he’d come up with some new msterial.

    • @CharlesDarwin
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      16 hours ago

      You’d think after a decade of blaming problems on minorities

      Wait? A decade? Doesn’t he have a documented history of doing this since the 70s?

    • Kernal64
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      1024 hours ago

      Why would he? Behavior like that has worked out well for him most of his life. Not only that, but it’s an election winning strategy.

      • d00phy
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        17 hours ago

        You know, when there’s a “Black People for the guy who has a extremely well-documented history of discriminatory behavior towards non-white people that he undoubtedly learned at a young age from his dad” group and they help you win elections, you can pretty much do and say whatever you want. Stockholm syndrome’s an especially vindictive bitch when a whole country has to deal with the repercussions!

        • Kernal64
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          517 hours ago

          After the Central Park 5, it’s mind boggling that any black person would ever vote for him.

          • d00phy
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            517 hours ago

            RIGHT!? I mean, ignore the lawsuits against his dad and him for discriminatory practices as landlords or the long-debunked shit he said about Saudis celebrating 911, or the constant categorizing immigrants as “murderers and rapists.” Seriously, short of wearing a fucking white hood, what more does a guy need to say or do to be universally seen as what he so clearly is? Burn a cross on the Elipse?

          • @MutilationWave
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            214 hours ago

            He still claimed they were guilty when they were proven innocent.

            • @CharlesDarwin
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              26 hours ago

              I mean, they WERE guilty. Of being non-white.

      • @fluxion
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        621 hours ago

        Even works for the demographics you are specifically promising to inflict pain upon

        • Kernal64
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          521 hours ago

          And the best part is the media will cover for them by saying it’s “economic anxiety,” just as they did in 2016.