Trump's New Racist Campaign Strategy Is Tweeting Mugshots of Black People

[Nevilledog]

https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-new-racist-campaign-strategy-is-tweeting-mugshots-of-black-people/

Donald Trump’s campaign has been tweeting mugshots of Black people out on bail in an effort to instill fear in voters about a future Joe Biden presidency.

The tweets featured the mugshots and full names of four Black defendants in Minnesota who had been released on bail money raised by the Minnesota Freedom Fund in the wake of the death of George Floyd in police custody.

“Donovan Boone is a violent fugitive who was in jail for attempting to strangle his ex-girlfriend,” reads one tweet. “Now he’s free thanks in part to Biden campaign officials who donated to pay bail fees. Does Joe Biden regret his campaign putting women in danger?”

The tweet then links to an official Trump campaign page, which says that the bail donations are “evidence your family won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America.”

“He is actively putting Americans’ lives at risk by making our streets more dangerous, cops’ jobs more difficult, and families less safe,” the page says.


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[Walleye]

1. Well going full Willie Horton. Desperate

[Mike 03]

4. This.

OMG, they've gone back to the trashy Lee Atwater playbook.

I can't believe the things he's trying.

[Walleye]

9. I'm just feeling so depressed and exhausted today.

[Wellstone ruled]

8. Karl Rove.

[SheltieLover]

2. Omg!

[LakeArenal]

3. Sure, dump. Joe is the one endangering us.

Sure. Even your solid base is dying but Joe is the one.

Sure.

[Cirque du So-What]

5. Maybe Democrats should counter

with.ugshots of rump's 'very fine people,' who appear just as scary.

[agingdem]

6. Lee Atwater's vile Willie Horton ad

same racist playbook...but Biden isn't Dukakis and Trump isn't Bush I...as much as the Trump white nazis want to "bring back the good old days" they're damn out of luck...and racism is not an opinion...it's out of the shadows overt hate...and because we as a country are multi-racial and multicultural all that targeted hate becomes very personal.. friends, neighbors, co-workers, husbands, wives, children, grandchildren...family....Trump may have Lee Atwater on speed dial but Lee Atwater is dead and rotting in hell...

[dalton99a]

7. And worse to come

[Baked Potato]

10. Roger Stone back in business?