Donald Trump: civil rights hero? Please.
by digby
Joe Biden's going to have to answer for these votes. But not to Trump, who is a racist piece of work. He'll have to answer to his own voters. Of course Trump is trying to sabotage Biden in the Democratic primary because he thinks he's his toughest competition.
Still, let's not forget who Trump is:
As you know the boys were innocent. But when the city settled the lawsuit years later Trump wrote an op-ed protesting the settlement."My opinion on the settlement of the Central Park Jogger case is that it's a disgrace. A detective close to the case, and who has followed it since 1989, calls it 'the heist of the century,’" he wrote. "Settling doesn't mean innocence."
"Speak to the detectives on the case and try listening to the facts," Trump wrote. "These young men do not exactly have the pasts of angels."
And don't forget that Trump had lots of help in 2016 from certain overseas assistants in suppressing the African American vote.
This issue could hurt Biden in the primaries. He's got to answer for his record. But African Americans aren't going to buy into Trump's bullshit in the General, no matter who gets the nomination. They are much too smart for that. They know what he is.
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