In his interview with ABC, Obama also offered debate advice for Clinton, his preferred successor.
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There’s literally no evidence Trump’s plan is working, and his ad-libs on the stump tend to make things worse.
Earlier in the day, Trump seemed to suggest that protesters outraged by the police shootings of black men were under the influence of drugs.
At a rally in North Carolina on Tuesday, Donald Trump, the Republican nominee states: “Our African American communities are absolutely in the worst shape they’ve ever been in before”.
Some claims, evidently, can’t be spun. “And we will do it exactly together, which is the only way it can be done”, Clinton said. “When you have 3,000 people shot and so many people dying, I mean it’s worse than some of the places we’re hearing about like Afghanistan, you know, the war torn nations”.
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.
Donald Trump told the crowd, gathered to hear him speak, that his message about the plight of America’s inner cities had struck a chord with the African-American voters. As part of a town hall hosted by Fox News’ resident race-baiter Sean Hannity at the New Spirit Revival Center, a Cleveland Heights church whose pastor is an ardent Trump supporter, Trump and running mate Mike Pence held a forum on “African American Concerns”.
President Barack Obama, the first black U.S. president, took on similar assertions by Trump last Saturday while speaking Congressional Black Caucus gala. He added that “our country looks bad to the world” and asked how the USA could be expected to lead on the global stage “when we can’t even control our own cities?” “I don’t know what she was thinking but I’m very, very troubled by that”, Trump said, calling it a “terrible situation”.
Aside from a blip in one unconventional tracking poll, Mr Trump’s black support continues to be mired in low single digits.
‘Police are entrusted with vast responsibility, and we must do everything we can to ensure that they are properly trained, that they respect all members of the public, and that any wrongdoing is always – and it will be by them – vigorously addressed, ‘ he said.
Trump’s campaign rejected the interpretation that he was talking about the protests seen on cable news the last few nights.
Clinton told a TV show Tuesday that the Tulsa incident, captured on video, was “unbearable” and she said the country needed to “tackle systemic racism”.
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Trump, however, has also displayed a tendency to speak about events before all the facts are made clear.
