There seems to be no end to the bluster of Donald Trump. Truth is not in his lexicon while shameful lying and manipulation are.
At an afternoon rally Thursday, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump repeatedly brought up “inner-cities” as part of an ongoing appeal to minority (primarily African-American and Hispanic) voters — with whom he’s polling abysmally — offering his go-to “What the hell do you have to lose?” rhetorical argument.
Democratic policies, Trump said, “produced only more poverty, complete joblessness, and failing schools.” And Clinton’s policies “failed and betrayed communities of color in this country … She has brought nothing but pain and heartache and broken promises to your inner-cities. On top of that, she wants to raise taxes on African-American-owned businesses to as much as nearly 50 percent more than they’re paying now.”
“She supports open borders that violate the civil rights of African-Americans, giving their jobs to people here illegally,” he continued at the Manchester, New Hampshire event. “She supports trade policies that have closed factories in African-American communities and put millions of African-Americans and others — all of us — out of work.”
From Salon
"…broken promises to your inner-cities…"! This struck me as condescending, racist and very, very Trumpish! It is very apparent that not only is Trump manipulating the "facts", it is corporate decisions, greed and Republican policies for the most part that have lead to corporations moving elsewhere in search of dirt cheap labour among other things. GREED! Can you smell it?
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What Terrie said so succinctly!!
Thanks, Lynn.
Trump offers minorities only the right to grip their ankles during,
To him, it's natural – out groups are "other" so they are always "you," never "we." He is tone deaf. But minorities are not.
"The Loud emptiness" hears nothing, knows nothing, but that which comes out of his very own vacuous mouth! If he thinks it…it is, done, finished, there is no more to be said!
There's no need to fact-check the latest of Drumpf's statement to know there's not one truth among them. There would be some truth to some of them had he said that Republicans were responsible for them, though. Apparently this is Drumpf's latest strategy: accuse Hillary Clinton of everything that he's accussed of being (a bigot) or having done wrong himself, but claiming anything positive as his own. It's good to hear that minority (African-American and Latino) voters have too much sense to be taken in by this cheap tactics, unlike his (mainly white male) base.
He would not recognize the truth if it hit him in the face. That is what my grandmother used to say and it is still true.