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Related: About this forumcoherent Trump "not a racist" strategy:police crackdown on streets, bash Clinton for 1994 crime bill
Trump is planning trips to urban areas with stops at churches, charter schools and small businesses in black and Latino communities and is developing an empowerment agenda based on the economy and education, aides said. Under consideration is an early September visit to Detroit, where retired neurosurgeon and former Republican primary rival Ben Carson would guide him on a tour of the impoverished neighborhoods where he grew up.
Trumps team also hopes to exploit what the campaigns internal poll of black voters nationally shows to be a potential vulnerability for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton once voters are informed of the crime policy record of former president Bill Clinton, according to two Trump associates.
At his rallies, meanwhile, Trump has been spotlighting black supporters and making a blunt pitch to minorities. He has described blacks in sweeping and categorical language, suggesting that they are mired in poverty, living in dangerous neighborhoods and have nothing to lose by giving him a chance. He also has changed his tone on immigration by saying he would swiftly deport the bad ones living in the country illegally but would use the existing legal process for others after vowing for more than a year that he would deport them all.
Trumps team also hopes to exploit what the campaigns internal poll of black voters nationally shows to be a potential vulnerability for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton once voters are informed of the crime policy record of former president Bill Clinton, according to two Trump associates.
At his rallies, meanwhile, Trump has been spotlighting black supporters and making a blunt pitch to minorities. He has described blacks in sweeping and categorical language, suggesting that they are mired in poverty, living in dangerous neighborhoods and have nothing to lose by giving him a chance. He also has changed his tone on immigration by saying he would swiftly deport the bad ones living in the country illegally but would use the existing legal process for others after vowing for more than a year that he would deport them all.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-donald-trumps-new-strategy-to-shed-the-view-of-him-as-racist/2016/08/23/eedc4fd0-6945-11e6-99bf-f0cf3a6449a6_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_trumprace-0755pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
Presidential candidate Donald Trump said Chicago's crime problem could be solved by police "being very much tougher" than they are now, adding that during a Chicago visit he met with "very top police" and was told the problem could be stopped in a week with tough tactics.
In an interview Monday night on the Fox News show "The O'Reilly Factor," Trump reiterated his past comments about Chicago violence being "out of control" and added that the Chicago police force does not have "the right people in charge."
Fox host Bill O'Reilly asked Trump how to solve the city's crime problem, with homicides up nearly 50 percent.
"How? By being very much tougher than they are right now. They're right now not tough. I could tell you this very long and quite boring story. But when I was in Chicago, I got to meet a couple of very top police. I said, 'How do you stop this? How do you stop this? If you were put in charge to a specific person do you think you could stop it?' He said, 'Mr. Trump, I'd be able to stop it in one week.' And I believed him 100 percent," Trump said.
When O'Reilly asked whether the unnamed officer told him how, Trump said: "No, he wants to use tough police tactics, which is OK when you have people being killed."
But Chicago police said Tuesday that Trump has not met with top brass.
"No one in the senior command at CPD has ever met with Donald Trump or a member of his campaign," Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.
In an interview Monday night on the Fox News show "The O'Reilly Factor," Trump reiterated his past comments about Chicago violence being "out of control" and added that the Chicago police force does not have "the right people in charge."
Fox host Bill O'Reilly asked Trump how to solve the city's crime problem, with homicides up nearly 50 percent.
"How? By being very much tougher than they are right now. They're right now not tough. I could tell you this very long and quite boring story. But when I was in Chicago, I got to meet a couple of very top police. I said, 'How do you stop this? How do you stop this? If you were put in charge to a specific person do you think you could stop it?' He said, 'Mr. Trump, I'd be able to stop it in one week.' And I believed him 100 percent," Trump said.
When O'Reilly asked whether the unnamed officer told him how, Trump said: "No, he wants to use tough police tactics, which is OK when you have people being killed."
But Chicago police said Tuesday that Trump has not met with top brass.
"No one in the senior command at CPD has ever met with Donald Trump or a member of his campaign," Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-trump-chicago-police-crime-met-20160823-story.html
Makes his immigration policy look coherent.
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coherent Trump "not a racist" strategy:police crackdown on streets, bash Clinton for 1994 crime bill (Original Post)
geek tragedy
Aug 2016
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Iliyah
(25,111 posts)1. huh, words from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The new meaning of flip and flop aka T-rump. Minorities see thru this bullshit.