Donald Trump reached out to the African American community Wednesday, holding a campaign event in a Cleveland church.
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“I love Israel and I love the Jewish people”, King told the Jerusalem Post in 2008, adding that African Americans “should try to emulate and imitate the saga of the Jewish struggle”.
That’s why she believes Trump will get far bigger numbers in OH than the 5-point lead he was given in a recent Bloomberg poll.
King also said he thinks Trump will save the nation. His comment during the Fox town hall that the female officer involved in the Tulsa shooting might have “choked” was notable considering he typically emphasizes support for law enforcement officers.
Later Wednesday, King flew with the Republican ticket to Toledo, Ohio, where the boxing promoter introduced Pence. But at the same time he has recently reached out to African-American voters as the gap in many opinion polls has narrowed between him and his rival in the November 8 presidential election, Democrat Hillary Clinton.
As the audience laughed, Trump smiled the whole time as King let the word fly. “It’s unbearable. And it needs to become intolerable”. Because King’s rambling effort to stump for Trump included the n-word. King, 85, was making a point about blacks viewed by their race, not just by their intelligence or talent.
“If you are poor, you are a poor negro”. “But if you rich, you are a rich negro”.
“I will walk with him, talk with him and plead to the people to understand that the system is the problem”, King said of Trump.
The Cleveland native then slipped up and said, “If you are a dancing and sliding and gliding n–er – I mean negro”, before chuckling at his mistake.
King’s mere presence at Trump’s side is controversial: King was convicted of second-degree murder for stomping a man to death in 1966. Terence Crutcher, the man who was fatally shot, was unarmed. That and another police shooting of a black man in North Carolina have sparked fierce protests that continued to simmer Thursday night.
“It does raise questions that a politician would be so dogmatic about protecting Second Amendment rights (to bear arms) yet rather cavalier about protecting the constitutional prohibition against illegal search and seizure”, he told a news briefing.
“The system is corrupt, the system is rigged, the system is sexist, the system is racist”, King said, arguing that Trump would bring the country “back to inclusiveness”.
The comedian asked her what Trump might wear to Monday’s debate.
“He looked like somebody who was doing what they were asking him to do”.
“They’re great people, great people”.
The Democratic nominee has made curbing gun violence and police brutality a central part of her candidacy.
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We suppose he didn’t handle the situation inappropriately, and we’re not sure there are many politicians who would’ve done much better, but it’s bad timing for Trump to experience a racially-charged moment of awkwardness. She pointed to the Oklahoma and North Carolina shootings at the start of her remarks, saying it added two more names “to a long list of African Americans killed by police officers”.
