“People around me were laughing [at the fact] that he noticed me and everybody was happy”. “It was a jovial thing”, Cheadle said.
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The business mogul, at the time, was recalling an incident from earlier this year when an African-American reportedly punched a man wearing Ku Klux Klan outfit at a Tucson rally. “He slugged them”, Trump said. By the way he keeps taking ownership of “African-Americans” during his speeches, maybe that’s what he’s trying to tell us.
“I was at the point he was about to leave and I called out, ‘Uncle Donald, Uncle Donald, ‘” Cheadle said. “Aren’t you the greatest?” as Cheadle held a “Veterans for Trump” sign he said he was using to shield his head from the sun.
Cheadle is a Republican candidate for a California congressional race. The Trump supporter says he identifies himself as a Republican, but he just doesn’t know whether the candidate really thinks like he does.
In November, Trump retweeted a graphic of false crime statistics comparing percentages of “blacks killed by blacks” and “blacks killed by police” that included an image of a dark-skinned man wearing a bandana, military-style trousers and holding a handgun sideways. He said much of the criticism has come from fellow blacks who don’t know him personally.
“No, I didn’t take offense to it”. But also noted that Trump’s choice of words left many uncertain as to what his meaning behind them were.
Cheadle said he is not upset with his critics. “I’m with the people”, Cheadle said.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to supporters at his primary election night event at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., Tuesday, March 15, 2016.
The photo, originally shared by WCPO-TV in August 2015, purported to show a black family as Trump supporters.
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Donald Trump has put his foot in his mouth yet again, though there are already people who wonder whether this mistake is going to stick to him any more than any of his other mistakes. In February, Nutter, said it was “slightly offensive” that Bernie Sanders seemed only to discuss African-Americans in the context of jail and criminal justice.
