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At this level, it couldn’t be extra abundantly clear that if the Sunken Place has a deeper sunken place inside itself, that’s the place South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott resides.
Scott just lately made an look on CNN so he might proceed his pity occasion tour on behalf of Donald Trump and the 34 felonies he was discovered responsible of on the finish of his hush cash trial in New York. Based on the Grio, Scott joined the refrain line of offended MAGA minions who declare Trump’s prosecution was about politics, not the legislation. Scott claimed the costs of falsifying enterprise information have been “the weaponization of the justice system” by President Joe Biden, regardless of the obvious undeniable fact that neither Biden nor his administration have something to do with fees introduced on anybody by the workplace of Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg.
However Scott’s fact-averse diatribe didn’t finish there. He additionally continued his stale, whitey-pleasing narrative that “America shouldn’t be a racist nation” and that the true discrimination is being leveled towards Republicans.
“The rationale why we’re seeing so many African People coming to the Trump marketing campaign — two massive causes: jobs and justice,” Scott instructed CNN host Phil Mattingly. “I’ll say merely, as an African American born and raised within the Deep South who had issues about our justice system because it pertains to race, I’m now seeing it play out from a partisan perspective. It’s not as a lot Black and white as it’s pink and blue.”
Riiiiight.
Let’s begin with the truth that it’s unfaithful that there was something greater than a slight uptick in “African People” who’re “coming to the Trump marketing campaign.”
From the Grio:
Polling reveals that the majority African American voters nonetheless assist the Democratic Social gathering. Based on the Pew Analysis Middle, a majority of Black voters — 83% — lean Democratic. Pew’s polling additionally reveals that 72% of Black voters say Trump was a “poor or horrible president.”
Whereas we’re right here, let’s get into Scott and the remainder of the MAGA GOP’s false assertion that Trump was prosecuted for crimes nobody is generally prosecuted for, which supposedly proves the prosecution was political.
From NewsOne:
Final 12 months, Simply Safety posted a 24-page survey detailing dozens of New York prosecutions during the last decade for falsifying enterprise information within the first diploma, which was the highest cost leveled towards Trump. Based on NBC New York, “Information from the New York Division of Prison Justice Providers present 10 years in the past, 101 individuals have been arrested in New York Metropolis in instances the place the highest cost was falsification of enterprise information.”
In 2022, solely 39 individuals confronted that prime cost, however the truth that none of these individuals have been named Donald Trump nonetheless signifies he wasn’t given a custom-made cost that solely he might catch. Now, to be truthful, prosecutions for falsifying enterprise information did enhance by loads when Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg took workplace, however that doesn’t assist Republicans’ “solely Trump” narrative since that enhance additionally didn’t embody defendants named Donald Trump.
NBC additionally reported that in “Bragg’s first 15 months as DA, his crew filed 166 felony counts for falsifying enterprise information towards 34 individuals or firms.” Once more, none of these people or enterprise have been beared the title Trump. The truth is, the one didfference between Trump and people different defendants is that when these different defendants have been charged with comparable crimes, Republicans didn’t care.
So far as Scott’s wannabe-white nonsense concerning how the division in America is “not as a lot Black and white as it’s pink and blue,” he has been on that shuck-and-jivery since lengthy earlier than Trump was ever indicted on any crimes.
For years now, Scott has repeatedly claimed “America shouldn’t be a racist nation”—regardless of all the info that claims in any other case—whereas out of the opposite aspect of his neck, he has repeatedly in contrast the remedy of Republicans to anti-Black racism, which he apparently doesn’t suppose exists in any substantial manner. That is additionally the umteenth time he has in contrast Trump’s trial to anti-Black injustice within the court docket system, which, once more, he doesn’t actually consider exists.
It’s unclear why Scott is even bothering to fake he has ever publicly “had issues about our justice system because it pertains to race,” however it’s clear that the one Black Republican within the U.S. Senate—and the one one to symbolize South Carolina within the state’s historical past (nothing racist about that although, proper?)—has devoted himself to loving up on Trump, absolving America of its white supremacist methods, and making Republicans the brand new N-words.
Sure, Scott is delusional. No, he doesn’t deal in information. Sure, white conservatives love him for it—and that may be the purpose.
