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The former president allegedly said African Americans didn’t vote for him and that he should have been tougher with racist protesters
An upcoming book by Wall Street Journal reporter Mike Bender alleges that former President Donald Trump has blamed his son-in-law for the civil unrest that erupted in the country after the death of George Floyd.
The book, titled “Honestly, We Won This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost,” includes first-hand accounts from some of Trump’s closest advisers, “who spoke to me on deep background terms, an agreement that I could share their stories without direct attribution,” Bender wrote for Politico. .
In the book, Bandar describes how Trump privately told advisers that he did not resist protesters forcefully enough in the wake of Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police in May 2020.
He also lamented that “blacks” hate him and will never vote for him despite him signing the Criminal Justice Reform Bill, Mediaite reports.
Excerpts from the Politico Playbook:
“For Father’s Day in 2020, what Donald Trump mostly wanted was to avoid his son-in-law. It was Jared Kushner who called on the president to hire Brad Parscale to run a campaign that was now, just months before the election, in a free fall.
And when most Americans dismissed Trump’s unbelievably tough response to the civil unrest sweeping the country, the president also blamed Kushner… Trump secretly told advisers he wished he’d been quicker to support the police and more aggressive in his pushback against protesters.
Trump had staked his campaign almost entirely on the image of law and order in 2016 and is now groaning that the criminal justice reform that Kushner convinced him to support made him look weak and — worse yet — earned him no goodwill among black voters.
Former President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, file)
“I’ve done all these things for black people – Jared always asks me to do it,” Trump told a confidant on Father’s Day. “And they all hate me, and none of them will vote for me,” said the excerpt.
The story continues
According to Bender, a Black Secret Service agent reportedly told then-President Trump that it would be “extremely offensive” for him to hold a planned rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Juneteenth.
Trump eventually made the decision to postpone the rally in 2020. Parscale was the first to recommend that the event be held on June 19 in Tulsa.
The date, June 19, 1865, is the time when the slaves in Galveston, Texas were finally informed of the Emancipation Proclamation two and a half years after former President Abraham Lincoln signed it in 1863.
Tulsa is also historically significant because of the 1921 racing massacre.
Bender noted that no one on Trump’s team has concerns about history – or “the mix of time and space – that is likely to be problematic.”
“If Parscale had bothered to ask Katrina Pearson, the highest-ranking black employee of the campaign and close friend of Parscale, she would have told him that June 19 is Juneth, an important holiday for black Americans celebrating the end of slavery,” Bender wrote.
She would also tell him that Tulsa, as most black Americans are well aware, was home to one of the deadliest outbreaks of racial violence in the nation’s history.
When Republican National Committee Chair Rona McDaniel learned about the plans, she warned Parscale to “don’t do this,” according to Bender.
“The media wouldn’t give us the benefit of the doubt, especially now,” McDaniel reportedly said.
Parscale continued the June 19 rally anyway, sparking outrage among Democrats.
Trump was reportedly surprised by the backlash and asked the staff if they knew what Juneteenth is. Days after announcing his visit to Tulsa, the former president asked a Black Secret Service agent about the day.
“I know what it is. It’s very offensive to me that you have that gathering on Juneteenth,” Trump’s Secret Service agent said, according to Bender.
Trump then decided that the rally would instead take place the day after Juneteenth, on June 20. He later claimed that no one had heard of Juneteenth until the controversy surrounding his Tulsa event.
“You made Juneteenth very popular,” he said.
Bender’s book “Honestly, We Won This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost” will be published on August 10.
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