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Jan. 14, 2021 - Epoch Times
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Debunking The 'Trump is a Racist' Myth—Larry Elder
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13 seconds.
Literally, the media counted how many seconds passed between the time a crowd at a rally in North Carolina began chanting, "Send her back! Send her back!" And the president stopped the chant.
"Send her back! Send her back! Send her back! Send her back! Send her back! Send her back! Send her back! Send her back! Send her back! Send her back!" 13 seconds?
My goodness, that's practically an eternity!
Four months!
You see, here's the deal.
After calling Trump a Hitler, a Nazi, a fascist, a dictator, they actually believe he has the power that a Nazi, a racist, a fascist, and a dictator literally has over crowd control.
The straffing!
Even worse, the president sent out a series of tweets before North Carolina going after these four congresswomen, affectionately known as "the squad." In fact, his tweets got President Trump condemned by the House.
They passed a motion to do so.
The resolution is adopted.
To give you an idea of how farcical this whole thing is, Emanuel Cleaver, one of those who voted for the motion, even said, why are we reacting like this to every time President Trump tweets?
What are you going to do the next time the President tweets?
He's playing us like a Stradivarius.
Wait a second.
What exactly did President Trump tweet that got him labeled once again racist?
Let's look at them.
So interesting to see progressive Democrat Congresswomen who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt, and inept anywhere in the world, if they even have a functioning government at all, Now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful nation on earth, how our government is to be run, why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came?
Then come back and show us how it's done.
These places need your help badly.
You can't leave fast enough.
I'm sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements.
Oh my goodness.
What a racist to tell, quote, people of color, close quote, say the media and the Dems, to go back to their original countries.
After all, only Ilhan Omar is from another country, Somalia.
The rest were born and raised here.
How racist is that?
Not to digress, but may I inform you of a tweet that was sent out by...
Rashida Tlaib in 2015, four years ago?
Deport this blank hole.
Charming.
Again, 2015.
Oh, and how about this tweet from Ilhan Omar in 2012?
We are citizens and can't be deported.
Why don't we deport you to wherever you came from?
Again, that was 2012.
And one more time, it was the media and the Dems who immediately informed us that the president directed his ire towards people of color.
I read you the tweets.
The president made no reference to color whatsoever.
It was the Democrats in the media that decided that was relevant.
Why?
Because they want to brand the president as a racist.
We've seen this movie before.
Democrats, Your race card is overdrawn.
By the way, a new Rasmussen poll finds one-third, a full one-third of Democrats believe, quote, anytime a white politician criticizes a black politician, it is racism, end of quote.
Wow.
Does it work the other way around?
Anytime a person of color, a politician of color, criticizes a white politician, is that racism?
If so, I know somebody who would be on death row. I know somebody who would be on death row.
President Trump only asked him to leave the country.
Maxine Waters wants him to leave anywhere.
So I guess they have to leave the planet.
Once again, because of Trump's tweets and because of the send her back chant at North Carolina, the Democrats are talking about a restoration of civility.
Never mind the race car was pulled on Joe Biden by Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, and the race car was pulled on Nancy Pelosi by AOC. The Democrats want a return to civility.
Let's go to the videotape, shall we?
The stench of fascism is in the air.
1964, California Democrat Governor Pat Brown when Barry Goldwater accepted the Republican nomination.
I am scared that if Ronald Reagan gets into office, we're going to see more of the Ku Klux Klan and a resurgence of the Nazi Party.
1980, Coretta Scott King.
Ronald Reagan is trying to replace the Bill of Rights with fascist precepts lifted verbatim from Mein Kampf.
1983, William Clay Sr., Democrat from Missouri.
I believe George H.W. Bush is a racist for many, many reasons.
He's a mean-spirited man who has no care or concern about what happens to the African-American community.
I truly believe that.
1992, Representative Maxine Waters, Democrat from California.
It's not S-word or N-word anymore.
It's not S-word, a slur for Latinos, or N-word, you know what that is, anymore.
Republicans say, let's cut taxes.
1994, Charlie Rango, Democrat, New York.
The new Republican-controlled House is like the Duma and the Reichstag.
Referring to the legislature set up by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and the parliament of the German Weimar Republic that brought Hitler to power.
1995, Representative John Dingell, Democrat, Michigan.
The GOP is coming for our children.
They're coming for the poor, the sick, the elderly, and the disabled.
1995, Representative John Lewis, Democrat, Georgia.
The GOP has a white boy attitude, which means I must exclude, denigrate, and leave behind.
They don't see it or think about it.
It's a culture.
1999, Donna Brazile, Al Gore's presidential campaign manager.
The Republicans bring out Colin Powell and JC Watts because they have no program, no policy.
They have no love, no joy.
They'd rather take pictures with black children than feed them.
2000, Donna Brazile.
Former DNC chair and former head of Al Gore's campaign.
We are in danger.
The extreme right wing has seized the government, so look out.
The right wing media, the FBI, they are targeting our leadership.
2001, Reverend Jesse Jackson.
You mean Uncle Tom types?
2001, Gloria Allred on a radio show referring to Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice.
What we are dealing with right now in this country is whether we are having a kind of bloodless silent coup.
President George W. Bush is trying to bring himself all the power to become an emperor, to create Empire America.
2002 Representative Jim McDermott, Democrat, Washington.
George W. Bush is our Bull Connor.
2005, Representative Rangel again, this time referring to the Birmingham, Alabama Democrat segregationist superintendent of public safety who sick dogs and turned water hoses on civil rights workers.
Every day, George W. Bush's administration unleashes squadrons of digital brownshirts to harass and hector any journalist who is critical of the president.
2005, Al Gore.
Democrats vs.
Republicans is a struggle between good and evil, and we're the good.
2005, Governor Howard Dean, chair of the DNC. George W. Bush has improved on the techniques used by the Nazi and the Communist propaganda machines.
2006, George Soros.
George W. Bush let people die on rooftops in New Orleans because they were poor and because they were black.
2006, then-Senate candidate Claire McCaskill, Democrat from Missouri, who won her race.
George W. Bush's administration engaged in ethnic cleansing by inaction.
So by simply not doing anything to alleviate this, they let the hurricane do the ethnic cleansing and their hands are clean.
End of quote.
2006, Representative Barney Frank, Democrat from Massachusetts, referring to George W. Bush's allegedly sluggish response to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side.
2006, Julian Bond, Chairman, NAACP. The House of Representatives has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about.
2006, Hillary Clinton.
The GOP is the white party.
2008, Howard Dean, again DNC, former chair.
The animosity directed towards President Barack Obama is because of the belief among many white people, not just in the South, but all over, that African Americans are not qualified to lead this great country.
End of quote.
2009, former President Jimmy Carter.
Mitt Romney's gonna put y'all back in chains.
2012, Vice President Joe Biden to a predominantly black audience about Mitt Romney's refusal to push for further regulation on Wall Street.
Gonna put y'all back in chains.
Some Republicans believe that slavery isn't over and they think they won the Civil War.
2014 Representative Charlie Rangel.
So Democrats are pushing for a restoration of civility?
When exactly did they practice it?
Wow!
George Herbert Walker Bush?
Racist?
I thought that was at least one Bush liberals liked.
Because of the passing of President George H.W. Bush, the last president from the greatest generation.
Bush served in World War II as a torpedo bomber pilot in the Pacific Theater, flew 58 missions.
When his plane got hit by Japanese anti-aircraft guns, he had to bail out.
And this is actual footage of a young George H.W. Bush being rescued by the crew of a submarine.
By the way, we keep hearing over and over again how President Trump has coarsened race relations.
He's made race relations worse.
Did he?
Take a look at this graph.
2007, whites' ratings of relations between whites and blacks as very good or somewhat good, 75%.
But by 2015, it had declined to 45%.
Now, who was president in 2007?
George W. Bush, 75%.
Who was president in 2015 when it declined to 45%?
Not Donald Trump.
Now let's look at black perceptions.
Black's ratings of relations between whites and blacks as very good or somewhat good.
2001, 70%.
2013, 66%.
2016, 49%.
Now, just who was president when race relations from the perception of blacks peaked at 70%?
George W. Bush.
Who was president in 2013 when it was at 66%?
Barack Obama.
But who was president in 2016, three years later, when it declined to 49%?
Barack Obama.
Now another thing you hear is that President Donald Trump has snatched the Republican Party, has done a hostile takeover of the Republican Party, has now made the Republican Party in his own image.
Really?
Check out this graph.
Perceptions of President's political views.
The percentage of Americans who think Donald Trump is too liberal, 17%.
The percentage who thought George W. Bush too liberal, 18%.
One point diff.
The percentage who thinks Donald Trump's views are just right?
38%.
The percentage of people who thought George W. Bush's views were about right?
36%.
Two point difference.
The percentage of people who think that Donald Trump's views are too conservative?
39%.
The percentage of people who thought George W. Bush's views were too conservative?
39%.
The point is, for all the people saying Donald Trump is engaged in a hostile takeover of the Republican Party, look at how people perceive them ideologically.
Almost identical!
Now, as to why I think race relations declined under Barack Obama, two reasons.
When Obama was interviewed as a senator, he was not yet the frontrunner in 2008 by Steve Croft at 60 Minutes.
Croft said, Senator Obama, if you don't get the nomination, will it be because of racism?
And Obama gave what I thought was a spectacular answer.
He said, no.
If I don't get the nomination, it will be because I have failed to articulate a view that the American people can embrace.
Fast forward, President Obama then says, racism is in our DNA. If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.
The Cambridge police acted stupidly.
Oh, there's a place called Ferguson, which Obama referred to in an address to the United Nations.
He embraced Black Lives Matter.
His AG, Eric Holder, said when it comes to matters of race, America has been a nation of cowards, whatever that means.
Eric Holder even said the push for voter ID, which a majority of blacks even support, was an example of pernicious racism.
So I think a lot of people thought the Obama they were going to get was the Obama on 60 Minutes.
Instead, they got the Obama who invited Al Sharpe into the White House over 70 some odd times.
The second reason I think Obama's popularity declined, at least among blacks, is because of the perception that if only a person were in the White House who was black, who understood my issues, my life would be so much better off.
Think I'm being demeaning when I say a lot of blacks assume that a black person in the White House would make a massive difference in their lives?
Remember Peggy Joseph?
It was the most Memorable time of my life.
It was a touching moment.
Why?
Because I never thought this day would ever happen.
I won't have to worry about putting gas in my car.
I won't have to worry about paying my mortgage.
You know, if I help them, who's going to help me?
I interviewed a woman named Liz Kroiken, and she said, I covered Trump for 10 years when he was in New York.
I'm an entertainment reporter, she said.
It is my job to find dirt on people.
I never heard he was a racist.
I never heard he was a fascist.
I never heard he was a homophobe until he ran for president.
In fact, she said, blacks used to embrace Donald Trump.
Oh, that was so then.
Now, despite all of the trashing, Pew Research estimates that ABC, NBC, CBS gave President Trump 91% negative coverage.
My goodness.
And still, his poll numbers are as high as they've ever been in his presidency.
That must be frustrating for a lot of people.
I know one gentleman, person of color, who's probably pretty happy about it.
Give my remarks to all of the Trump haters, all of the Hillary Clinton supporters, all of the people that said that my Trump was gonna lose.
So I say to you this morning, the day after the election, Oh,
I can't breathe!
Are we having fun yet?
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