Donald Trump came under fire on Saturday February 24, 2024 after his remarks to black voters, suggesting that his indictments made him a sympathetic candidate in the eyes of African-Americans.
The former president of the United States, a candidate in the November election, was meeting with a group of conservative African-Americans in South Carolina on Friday evening, when he declared: “A lot of people say that black people like me because they have suffered so much and been discriminated against and they see me as someone who has been discriminated against”.
Mired in legal troubles, Donald Trump also said, regarding his now famous mug shot: “You know who embraced it more than anyone else? The black population is incredible”.
“Chaos” and “Racism”
These comments were criticized by Democrats and Republicans alike, seeing very unwelcome connections between African-Americans and crime.
“It’s disgusting”, said Nikki Haley on Saturday, the only notable candidate still in the running for the Republican primaries against Donald Trump. The two candidates face off Saturday in a primary in South Carolina.
“This is the chaos that accompanies Donald Trump, and this kind of offensive language will continue every day until the election”she warned.
A Joe Biden campaign official called the comments “racist”. “For Donald Trump to claim that African Americans will support him because of his criminal charges is insulting. It’s stupid “castigated Cedric Richmond in a press release.
“Believe me when I tell you that in November, the voters he continues to disrespect will make him swallow his words”he said.
“Nightmare” America according to Trump
This controversy did not prevent Donald Trump from continuing his campaign in an offensive manner, attacking his Republican opponent Nikki Haley, Joe Biden or the American justice system.
According to him, the United States is today a country governed by “tyrants”, “corrupted” And “fascists” : Donald Trump, welcomed as a superstar at the conservatives’ annual high mass, on Saturday painted a portrait of an American democracy on the brink of the abyss, attributing the ills to Joe Biden.
It is cheered by hundreds of his supporters in red caps emblazoned with “Trump” in gold letters that the former president says: “A vote for Trump is your ticket back to freedom and your passport out of tyranny”.
For an hour and a half, Donald Trump made incendiary remarks about migrants who “kill our citizens, kill our country”.
“No country could bear what is happening” in the United States, launched the Republican tribune, scourging Joe Biden’s migration policy.
Under the Democrat, “America is a nightmare”he said at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), organized in the suburbs of Washington.
The 77-year-old former business mogul promised he would fix the problem upon his return to the White House, taking action “as draconian as necessary”as a record number of migrants crossed the border between Mexico and the United States in 2023.
His impersonations of the current president, whom he describes as “a threat to democracy” And “surrounded by fascists”made the public laugh, Donald Trump promising them that November 5, election day, would be the “liberation day”.
Joe Biden is the favorite target of the Republican tribune, who does not hesitate to mock the Democrat and present him as a crazy old man, ensuring that he himself has not “no cognitive problems”.
His speech was marked by rhetoric that was as acrimonious as ever, making numerous references to an American democracy on the brink of collapse.
“Everything in our country will work again and we will be respected around the world”assured Donald Trump confident of his re-election, before going to South Carolina later in the day, where a new stage of his party’s primaries is being held.