Donald Trump likes to hold rallies on Saturday nights. Trump, stuck in a 1970s mindset, seems to think that getting on camera on Saturday night is still guaranteed prime time viewing, instead of the reruns of Wheel of Fortune usually in the spot.
Still, as they did last night, his faithful turn out in the thousands to hear the orange oracle hold forth on his favorite topic: himself.
Related: Texas Trump supporter claims victory in state Senate race. The election hasn’t happened yet.
Even by Trump standards, his two rallies in Texas — one in Houston and one in Conroe — were doozies. Trump is still promoting the Big Lie that he won the 2020 presidential election. But when it comes to race and violence, he’s discarded any dog whistles for a bullhorn.
Trump unironically told his followers to stage another assault on the rule of law in the name of protecting it. In particular, he wants them to save him from being indicted.
“If these radical, vicious, racist prosecutors do anything wrong or illegal, I hope we are going to have in this country the biggest protest we have ever had in Washington DC, in New York, in Atlanta and elsewhere because our country and our elections are corrupt,” he told the audience at the Conroe rally.
Trump is under investigation in multiple jurisdictions for a variety of misdeeds. New York State Attorney General Letitia James (D) is looking into whether Trump committed fraud by willfully misstating the value of his properties to game the tax system. The newly sworn-in Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, inherited a case regarding whether or not Trump submitted false financial statements when seeking financing. In Georgia, the Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) has requested a special grand jury to look into election interference by Trump, something that he was pretty much caught on tape doing.
What makes all these prosecutors ‘racist’ in Trump’s eyes? They are Black.
It doesn’t matter that Bragg inherited his case from his white predecessor. Trump is playing on the crowd’s white resentment to rile them up.
Indeed, in one of those rhetorical sleight-of-hands that Trump is so good at, he pulled the crowd into his own legal woes, as if they were all serial lawbreakers.
“In reality, they’re not after me, they’re after you, and I just happen to be the person in the way,” Trump said.
While Trump’s grip on the MAGA fringe may not be quite as strong as it once was, he’s still the single most powerful figure in the Republican party. The 2024 presidential nomination is presumed his if he wants it. At the rally, he teased the crowd with what he would do if he were president again: pardon the Capitol Hill insurrectionists.
“If I run and if I win, we will treat those people from January 6 fairly,” Trump said in Conroe. “We will treat them fairly,” Trump said.
“And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons. Because they are being treated so unfairly.”
Of course, that would mean returning to the Oval Office. Or as Trump put it at the Conroe rally, “that beautiful, beautiful house that happens to be white.”
mountaintop111 on January 31st, 2022 at 13:48 UTC »
If there are Trump supporters that deny Trump is racist and ask for evidence, you can give them this list:
Trump questioned whether Judge Curiel could be impartial because of Judge Curiel's Mexican heritage. This lead to Paul Ryan, the Republican Speaker of the House at the time, calling Trump's remarks about Judge Curiel as "textbook definition of a racist comment":During a meeting with Congressmen, Trump wondered why immigrants to the US couldn't come from countries like Norway instead of "shithole" African countries, and other "shithole" countries like El Salvador and Haiti
The Central Park Five, who were all African American, were cleared of their charges. But despite being cleared of their charges, Trump continued to insist they were guilty.
For the longest time, Trump continued to ask for Obama's birth certificate, questioning whether Obama was American and insinuating that Obama was born in Kenya, presumably because Obama is black. It is well known that Obama was born in Hawaii. Obama eventually released his birth certificate in 2011 to put an end to this conspiracy theory by Trump. Despite Obama releasing his birth certificate, Trump would deliberately continue with this conspiracy theory against Obama for another 5 years until the 2016 election when the media put enough pressure on Trump to admit Obama was born in the USA.
"In 1973, Richard Nixon’s Department of Justice sued the Trump family business for refusing to rent or negotiate rentals 'because of race and color'."
Trump defended the Neo-Nazis at the Charlottesville by claiming there were "very fine people on both sides." And this came after footage of the Neo-Nazis in Charlottesville chanting Nazi slogans such as "blood and soil" while holding Tiki torches the night before the protest.
And of course, Trump's tweets asking a group of 4 Congresswomen to go back to their "country" even though 3 of them were born in the USA. Trump likely made the tweet because all 4 Congresswomen were not Caucasian.
There are many more instances of Trump's racism:
https://www.reddit.com/r/esist/comments/6pm4ns/tonight_i_was_asked_by_a_fellow_reddit_user_who/
https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughTrumpSpam/comments/65h3b6/a_final_response_to_the_tell_me_why_trump_is/
http://fortune.com/2016/06/07/donald-trump-racism-quotes/
ShackintheWood on January 31st, 2022 at 13:15 UTC »
Isn't that the place he said was "Really a dump" ?
Civil-Night-8378 on January 31st, 2022 at 12:57 UTC »
Steward Rhodes ex wife did a chilling interview this morning. These types are just waiting for civil war.