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Trump is really good at saying the quiet part out-loud - even if indirectly. Just today leaked quote from 2016 about lower black turnout. "The president acknow
by dillondoyle 6y ago
Trump is really good at saying the quiet part out-loud - even if indirectly. Just today leaked quote from 2016 about lower black turnout.
"The president acknowledged in a 2017 meeting with civil rights leaders that he benefited from Black voters staying home."
Combined with Trump campaign's deliberate (they bragged about it in the press) paid media to convinced AfAm voters to sit the election out it's pretty damning.
Might not be as direct a quote as you're looking for but it's literally the first off the top of my head, from today only!
Another good recent one is a lot of vote-by-mail quotes from Trump.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/21/trump-black-voters-turnout-2016-398520 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/21/trump-black-voters-...
https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/27/13434246/donald-trump-targeted-dark-facebook-ads-black-voters https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/27/13434246/donald-trump-ta...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/30/trump-voting-republicans/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/30/trump-vot...
- refurb 6y ago"The president acknowledged in a 2017 meeting with civil rights leaders that he benefited from Black voters staying home." That says nothing about voter suppression.
- dillondoyle 6y agoIt's 100% voter suppression - they bragged about running targeted Facebook ads to AfAm voters to get them not to vote. Literal suppression