Former President Donald Trump accused President Joe Biden of being “a very nasty and vicious racist” during a fiery speech at the annual Black Conservative Federation gala in South Carolina on Friday, where the GOP frontrunner attacked his main Democratic opponent the night before the state’s Republican primary.
Trump accused Biden of courting “notorious segregationists” throughout his political career and blamed the incumbent for authoring the 1994 crime bill that “caused unfair sentencing disparities that devastated the Black community.”
“He said he didn’t want his children to grow up in a ‘racial jungle,’” Trump crowed, referring to comments Biden made during his early days in the Senate. “On top of everything else, Joe Biden really has proven to be a very nasty and vicious racist. He’s been a racist whether you like it or don’t like it.”
Trump, who was flanked by several Black lawmakers, including Reps. Byron Donalds of Florida and Wesley Hunt of Texas also took aim at comments Biden made to a Columbia Rotary Club in 2006, when the Democratic senator joked that his home state of Delaware was a “slave state that fought beside the North” in the Civil War.
“He boasted that his home state was a slave state,” Trump fumed. “He was very proud of that; he thought it was great. If you go back and look at his body language, the way he said it, he was very proud of it.”
During the speech, Trump set off a bigger firestorm by suggesting that his ongoing legal troubles — including the police mug shot taken after his arrest in the Georgia election subversion case last August — had boosted his popularity among Black voters, whom he claimed were beginning to identify with him more due to shared experiences of discrimination.
“I got indicted for nothing, for something that is nothing,” Trump told the audience of Black conservatives. “I got indicted a second time and a third time and a fourth…
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