Trump's Racist Attacks On Black Prosecutors Lack Reasons Why

Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media after exiting the courtroom for a lunch recess through the first day of his civil fraud trial at New York State Supreme Court docket on October 2, 2023, in New York Metropolis. | Supply: Michael M. Santiago / Getty

Listen: I’ve written over and over about Donald Trump arbitrarily calling the Black officers of the court docket who’re prosecuting him racist simply because they’re Black. I’ve requested why Republicans who fake to be anti-race card permit Trump to proceed enjoying the race card with out difficult him on it. However nonetheless, Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg is a racist, in response to Trump. Fulton County District Lawyer Fani Willis is a “younger racist” who had an affair with a “gang member,” in response to Trump. Does Trump present a sliver of proof to assist these claims? Nope. Does he even trouble elaborating on why he believes these Black prosecutors to be racist? Not even as soon as. Not for Bragg, not for Willis and never for New York Lawyer Common Letitia James, who Trump referred to as racist once more, amongst different issues, after he appeared in a Manhattan court docket Monday for the beginning of his civil fraud trial.

From ABC 7:

Trump angrily spoke to cameras throughout day one, ranting to the media that the trial is a “witch hunt” and referred to as Lawyer Common Letitia James “racist.” Throughout a lunch break later within the afternoon, he railed towards Choose Arthur Engoron and referred to as him an “operative” and stated it was a “shame.”

Trump was not required to attend Monday’s proceedings, however stated he needed to combat for his title and status. The previous president spent the morning listening to opening statements — stone-faced on the protection desk — then unloaded on the choose to reporters gathered outdoors.

An accountant who ready Trump’s monetary statements for years was anticipated to be again on the witness stand for a second day.

In Trump’s case, the choose already dominated that Trump dedicated fraud and did so for years whereas constructing his actual property empire that catapulted him to fame and to the White Home and has stripped the Trumps of management over their properties in New York Metropolis.

So, after Trump was completed growling and barking incoherently at reporters who had been in all probability itching to reply, “Sir, this can be a Wendy’s,” the previous con-man-der-in-chief (sure, you learn that proper) took to

Fact Social to proceed his unhinged rant for anybody who didn’t hear him the primary time.

“JUST ARRIVED AT THE COURTHOUSE TO FIGHT A CORRUPT & RACIST ATTORNEY GENERAL, AND A ROGUE, OUT OF CONTROL, TRUMP HATING JUDGE, WHO REFUSES TO FOLLOW THE APPELLATE COURT DECISION WHICH KNOKS OUT 80% OF THIS SHAM CASE,” he wrote after court docket. “THIS IS THE CONTINUATION OF THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME. ELECTION INTERFERENCE!”

Now, when it comes proper all the way down to it, that is all simply Trump being Trump. He’s an anti-Black bigot, a hypocrite, a compulsive liar and a ban-baby with the persecution advanced of a 6-year-old who simply bought despatched to his room with out supper for actually setting the dinner desk on fireplace. So, in fact, he tosses across the phrases “witch hunt” and “rogue,” calls the authorized officers prosecuting and ruling towards him corrupt, and whines about “election interference” as if he isn’t additionally at the moment underneath indictment for alleged election interference. For Trump, that is all simply par for the course. (I say that as a result of it’s what he all the time does and since he spent a lot of his depressing presidency enjoying golf.)

However for some motive, Trump repeatedly calling Black individuals racist for no different motive than them opposing him whereas Black nonetheless will get underneath my pores and skin so to talk. It’s not even the truth that he does it, as a result of, once more—bigot, hypocrite, liar, man-child. It bothers me that nobody from both aspect of the political aisle ever appears to problem him on it. Hell, even reporters decline to press him on why he thinks these persons are racist.

Have both Bragg, Willis, or James been caught utilizing anti-white racial slurs? Is there any information that implies they disproportionately indict white individuals or give them harsher sentences than their Black counterparts? Have they even made social media posts that embody Caucasian stereotypes? Trump has completed that quite a few instances. He not too long ago repeated the racist AF narrative that his mugshot has earned him extra Black supporters as a result of Black individuals love criminality.

In reality, I don’t even have the bandwidth to run down the ever-growing listing of issues he has completed or stated which might be on the very least arguably racist. Trump doesn’t even trouble presenting an argument. He simply sees an African American who will not be the “have a look at my African American over right here” sort and decides to name them racist as a result of his demonstrably racist MAGA cult will eat it proper up.

It’s simply extra white grievance pandering on the expense of Black individuals, together with high-profile Black girls, who’re already bombarded with racist and misogynistic assaults by the identical individuals who fill Trump’s assist base.

It’s racist and aggravating, however moreover that, it’s precisely the way in which white supremacy has all the time operated.