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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 not too long ago made an look on CNN so he might proceed his pity social gathering 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. In response to the Grio, Scott joined the refrain line of indignant MAGA minions who declare Trump’s prosecution was about politics, not the regulation. Scott claimed the fees of falsifying enterprise data had been “the weaponization of the justice system” by President Joe Biden, regardless of the obtrusive 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 actual discrimination is being leveled in opposition to Republicans.
“The explanation why we’re seeing so many African People coming to the Trump marketing campaign — two large 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 purple 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 help the Democratic Social gathering. In response to 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 often prosecuted for, which supposedly proves the prosecution was political.
From NewsOne:
Final yr, Simply Safety posted a 24-page survey detailing dozens of New York prosecutions during the last decade for falsifying enterprise data within the first diploma, which was the highest cost leveled in opposition to Trump. In response to NBC New York, “Information from the New York Division of Prison Justice Providers present 10 years in the past, 101 individuals had been arrested in New York Metropolis in instances the place the highest cost was falsification of enterprise data.”
In 2022, solely 39 individuals confronted that high cost, however the truth that none of these individuals had 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 data did improve by loads when Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg took workplace, however that doesn’t assist Republicans’ “solely Trump” narrative since that improve additionally didn’t embrace defendants named Donald Trump.
NBC additionally reported that in “Bragg’s first 15 months as DA, his staff filed 166 felony counts for falsifying enterprise data in opposition to 34 individuals or corporations.” Once more, none of these people or enterprise had been beared the identify Trump. In truth, the one didfference between Trump and people different defendants is that when these different defendants had been charged with related crimes, Republicans didn’t care.
So far as Scott’s wannabe-white nonsense relating to how the division in America is “not as a lot Black and white as it’s purple 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 information that claims in any other case—whereas out of the opposite facet of his neck, he has repeatedly in contrast the therapy of Republicans to anti-Black racism, which he apparently doesn’t assume exists in any substantial method. 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 imagine 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 signify 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 could be the purpose.