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Why Does Trump Call AG Letitia James A Peekaboo?
My real question is why does he get away with it.
Donald Trump is known for many things — being a sexual predator, being bad with money, filing bankruptcy multiple times, being a liar, calling for the execution of the Central Park Five, being incompetent as a businessman and president, having a foul odor, being a depraved narcissist, having 91 indictments and four criminal cases against him, and being a vile racist.
I promise if you come in my comments and ask me one thing Trump has ever said or done that’s racist — I’m blocking you.
Donald J. Trump is so racist that he emboldened racists in America during his presidency — as if racism wasn’t bad enough. Per the Brookings Institution in an article from 2019—
FBI data show that since Trump’s election there has been an anomalous spike in hate crimes concentrated in counties where Trump won by larger margins. It was the second-largest uptick in hate crimes in the 25 years for which data are available, second only to the spike after September 11, 2001.
Another study, based on data collected by the Anti-Defamation League, shows that counties that hosted a Trump campaign rally in 2016 saw hate crime rates more than double compared to similar counties that did not host a rally.
With his anti-Black, anti-immigrant “take back our country” rhetoric, Trump inspired his MAGA followers to behave like it was Jim Crow all over again.
If you think I’m exaggerating, I’m a Black woman born and bred in the Deep South, and I still live here, in a red state. Something in the atmosphere changed after Trump was elected. All of a sudden I was getting into road rage incidents with white men driving F-150’s and being mean-mugged by them when I went grocery shopping in my predominately white neighborhood. I would walk into some shops and be ignored by the white women behind the cash registers. Things changed. It got so bad, that at the beginning of COVID, whilst getting dirty looks from white people while masking up (Trump was downplaying the pandemic and feeding into the narrative that shutdowns and masks were intruding on personal rights), I bought a gun. I never thought I would have to do that. Yes, people were attacked for wearing…
