Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Trump's Racist Attacks On Prosecutors Not New

 

The Malignant Loser has been in legal difficulties throughout his lawless life, but not as serious and widespread as the four cases and 91 felony counts he now faces. His constant outbursts and attacks on prosecutors and judges are an outgrowth of his history of using racist language and dog whistles to get support from white supremacists and anti-Semites. The Associated Press has a report:

"The early Republican presidential front-runner has used terms such as 'animal' and 'rabid' to describe Black district attorneys. He has accused Black prosecutors of being 'racist.' He has made unsupported claims about their personal lives. And on his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump has deployed terms that rhyme with racial slurs as some of his supporters post racist screeds about the same targets.

The rhetoric is a reminder of Trump’s tendency to use coded racial messaging as a signal to supporters, an approach he has deployed over several decades as he evolved from a New York City real estate tycoon to a reality television star and, eventually, the president. Even if he doesn’t explicitly employ racial slurs, his language recalls America’s history of portraying Black people as not fully human."  (our emphasis)

It's no wonder that one of his bigoted cult members in Texas left a threatening and racist voicemail with Federal District Judge Tanya Chutkan who's overseeing the Malignant Loser's January 6 election fraud and conspiracy trial in Washington, D.C., after being triggered by one of his social media rants. His cult members don't need explicit directions to act out their racism; the Malignant Loser's winks and nods always work for them. Then there's the documented evidence of the Malignant Loser's animus toward people of color from his past, cited in the AP article:

"In 1989, Trump took out full-page newspaper ads calling for five Black and Hispanic men accused, and ultimately convicted, of rape to receive the death penalty. The 'Central Park Five' were exonerated in 2019 and Trump responded to the news by saying, 'You have people on both sides of that.'

Just before he was elected president in 2016, Trump referred to U.S.-born District Judge Gonzalo Curiel as 'Mexican.' He said without evidence that Curiel had a conflict of interest over Trump’s efforts to 'build the wall' on the U.S.'s southern border. While in office, he said four congresswomen of color should go back to the 'broken and crime infested' countries they came from, ignoring the fact that all of the women are American citizens and three were born in the U.S.

And in bluntly vulgar language while he was president, Trump questioned why the U.S. would accept more immigrants from Haiti and 'shithole countries' in Africa."

As he approaches justice for his various crimes, the Malignant Loser will revert to his feral and lawless self, deliberately stirring up hate and violence in his effort to escape punishment, and the dog whistles will increasingly be replaced by the bullhorn.