Posted on 08/22/2023 2:09:20 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s aggressive response to his fourth criminal indictment in five months follows a strategy he has long used against legal and political opponents: relentless attacks, often infused with language that is either overtly racist or is coded in ways that appeal to racists.
The early Republican presidential front-runner has used terms such as “animal” and “rabid” to describe Black district attorneys. He has accused Black prosecutors of being “racist.” He has made unsupported claims about their personal lives. And on his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump has deployed terms that rhyme with racial slurs as some of his supporters post racist screeds about the same targets.
The rhetoric is a reminder of Trump’s tendency to use coded racial messaging as a signal to supporters, an approach he has deployed over several decades as he evolved from a New York City real estate tycoon to a reality television star and, eventually, the president. Even if he doesn’t explicitly employ racial slurs, his language recalls America’s history of portraying Black people as not fully human.
“He’s taking that historical racialized language that was offensive and insulting, and the subordinating of Black persons, applying it in a contemporary space and really bubbling up that history,” said Bev-Freda Jackson, a professor in the school of public affairs at American University.
While this is a well-worn strategy for Trump, his latest comments come at a particularly sensitive moment. On a personal level, a bond agreement signed on Monday by Trump’s lawyers and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis imposes restrictions on his communications, including those issued through social media. And more broadly, experts worry Trump’s broadsides will worsen online vitriol and inspire violence.
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Believe nothing AP, the DA’s just happen to be racists.
They are desperate. Back to “ They’ll put y’all back in chainzz”!
The real title of the article should be “How Leftists Project Their Evil onto Others.”
That’s why the Media-Dem Party recruited blacks, in NY James and Bragg, in GA Willis, and of course the “judge” they assigned the J6 case to, it was that they could call any objections “racist”.
Although the term has been sullied by Biden———————
AW, C’MON.
They are looking for places to find something to be outraged about.
Oh, Brother......
I don’t know, has Trump called them morons? persons of little talent? failed lawyers? equal-opportunity foul-ups? nappy headed hoes?
The NY prosecutor and ATL prosecutor are both Black, so anything negative Trump says about them is automatically a racist remark.
The riggers are triggered
Well, he certainly hasn't called them 'clean and articulate...'
Capitalizing black every time they use it, AP needs to STFU about racism.
He’s just using the playbook the democrats used on Ken Starr.
Winnie the Pooh “Oh, Bother”
Fu
Defending yourself in court?
That’s racist.
Just like I figgered.
I still think it’s weird that a guy who got an award on the same stage next to Ali and Parks, was frequently hit up by Jackson and Sharpton for cash...
... is suddenly a Racist because he ran for office as a Republican.
Doesn’t it seem like these urban prosecutors are getting BIGGER?
How dare he called racist black woman racist
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