(Just as Trump was trying to convince us that he's black like them!)

Black leaders call out Trump�s criminal justice contradictions as he rails
against guilty verdict

By Aaron Morrison And Matt Brown, The Associated Press

Posted June 1, 2024 8:33 am.

Last Updated June 1, 2024 10:00 am.

As Donald Trump lambasted the guilty verdict of his hush money trial this
week, he stood inside a Manhattan courthouse that was the site of one of
the most notorious examples of injustice in recent New York history. And he
had a part in that.

It�s the same courthouse where five Black and Latino youths were wrongly
convicted 34 years ago in the beating and rape of a white female jogger.
The former president famously took out a newspaper ad in New York City in
the aftermath of the 1989 attack calling for the execution of the accused
in a case that roiled racial tensions locally and that many point to as
evidence of a criminal justice system prejudiced against defendants of
color.

But on Friday, a day after making history as the first U.S. president
convicted of felony crimes in a court of law, Trump blasted that same
criminal justice system as corrupt and rigged against him.

�This is a scam,� he said of the case brought by the Manhattan District
Attorney�s Office led by Alvin Bragg, the first Black person in the role,
and overseen by Judge Juan Merchan, who is of Colombian descent.

�This is a rigged trial. It shouldn�t have been in that venue. We shouldn�t
have had that judge,� the presumptive Republican presidential nominee said
Friday from Trump Tower in Manhattan.

Some Black Americans found irony in Trump railing against the injustice of
his own conviction, in a courthouse where five Black and Latino teenagers
were wrongly convicted in a case Trump supported so vociferously. The
Central Park Five case was Trump�s first foray into tough-on-crime politics
that preluded his full-throated populist political persona. To many, Trump
employed dog whistles as well as overtly racist rhetoric in both chapters
of his public life.

But lately, in his outreach to Black and Hispanic communities, Trump has
adopted the language of criminal justice reform advocates. He claims Black
Americans and Latinos can relate to him because prosecutors are out to get
him like they have been out to get many men and boys in their communities.

�Donald Trump�s conviction is going to be a problem for him with many Black
people because, guess what, many Black people do not like people who
violate our criminal laws,� said Maya Wiley, a New York civil rights
attorney and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.

�Black people are disproportionately the victims of crime. It�s not that
they just side with people who�ve been convicted of a crime.�

Wiley, who ran unsuccessfully for New York City mayor in 2021, said the
city�s Black and Hispanic residents also remember Trump�s comments about
the Central Park jogger case.

�They haven�t forgotten the fact that Donald Trump took out a full-page ad
suggesting the death penalty for the Central Park Five, who have been
exonerated and were the victims of an abusive system,� Wiley said.

The Rev. Al Sharpton, an advocate for the five exonerated men, called
Trump�s conviction a symbolic measure of justice for them.

�This is the same building that Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef
Salaam, Raymond Santana, and Korey Wise all passed into, day after day, as
they endured a show trial for a crime they did not commit,� Sharpton said
just after the verdict was read.

�Now the shoe is on the other foot. Donald Trump is the criminal, and those
five men are exonerated,� he said.

Salaam, who won a seat on the New York City Council last year, said he
didn�t take pleasure in the former president�s guilty verdict �even though
Donald Trump wanted me executed even when it was proven that I was
innocent.�

Salaam and the other young men had their convictions vacated in 2002 after
evidence linked another person to the crime. Trump in 2019 refused to
apologize to the exonerated men.

�We should be proud that today the system worked,� Salaam wrote Thursday on
the social media platform X. �But we should be somber that we Americans
have an ex-President who has been found guilty on 34 separate felony
charges.�

�We have to do better than this. Because we are better than this,� he
wrote.

Judith Browne Dianis, executive director of the Advancement Project Action
Fund civil rights group, said Trump hasn�t been subject to the type of
unfair treatment in the criminal justice system that Black and Hispanic
communities know too well.

�He didn�t have a violent arrest by police, he didn�t stay a night in
Rikers Island because he couldn�t afford bail, he didn�t even go to jail.
He could pay a battery of lawyers to represent him and he can pay for an
appeal,� Dianis said.

Racial justice advocates are also using the historic moment to remind the
public that Trump and his associates attempted to overturn the will of
voters by challenging the 2020 presidential election results in heavily
Black and Latino districts. The hush money trial was just one part of a
broader narrative around electoral justice, said Derrick Johnson, president
and CEO of the NAACP, who called the verdict against Trump �a monumental
step toward justice for the American people.�

�Whether it�s an attempt to steal an election or overthrow our government,
one thing has long been apparent: Donald Trump is unfit to represent
American democracy,� Johnson said after the verdict was heard Thursday.

Johnson, who leads the nation�s oldest civil rights organization, said
Trump�s criminal conviction ought to disqualify him from the Oval Office.

�As Black Americans have been denied basic human rights due to less
offensive crimes, any attempt to advance Donald Trump�s nomination for
presidency would be a gross advancement of white supremacist policy,� he
said.

Sharpton cautioned against gloating over the verdict.

�Instead, celebrate by casting votes for leaders who will protect democracy
� not who want to kill it.�

On 6/2/2024 8:58 AM, tRUMP's Criminal Mind wrote:
> Sharpton cautioned

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> On 6/2/2024 8:58 AM, tRUMP's Criminal Mind wrote:
>> Sharpton cautioned
>
> There's where

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On 2024-06-02, CaLaVeRa <cv@invalid.org> wrote:
> On 6/2/2024 8:58 AM, tRUMP's Criminal Mind wrote:
>> Sharpton cautioned
>
> There's where your credibility ends.
Today on his show, Sharpton was whining about how the verdict is racist because Marilyn Mosby, AG
of Baltimore on perjury and mortgage fraud and she has a very stiff sentence.

Yea, everything to Sharpton is racist.

BTW, where is his church?

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Mike Colangelo wrote:

> On 6/2/2024 11:53 AM, Loran aka "MassPeekWa" aka "CaLaVeRa "spammy,
> fucking lying cocksucking HIV-oozing pseudonymous
> liar-who-has-not-been-defamed, lied:
>
> > On 6/2/2024 8:58 AM, tRUMP's Criminal Mind wrote:
> > > Sharpton cautioned
> >
> > There's where
>
> It's spammy again, lying as always.

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On 03 Jun 2024, "Klaus Schadenfreude"
<klaus.schadenfreude.zdicksucker@qmail.com> posted some
news:Lxl7O.33784$Dsz1.24262@fx14.iad:

> Mike Colangelo wrote:
>
>> On 6/2/2024 11:53 AM, Loran aka "MassPeekWa" aka "CaLaVeRa "spammy,
>> fucking lying cocksucking HIV-oozing pseudonymous
>> liar-who-has-not-been-defamed, lied:
>>
>> > On 6/2/2024 8:58 AM, tRUMP's Criminal Mind wrote:
>> > > Sharpton cautioned
>> >
>> > There's where
>>
>> It's spammy again, lying as always.
>
>
> Rudy sucks dick.

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On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 21:41:57 -0000 (UTC), Austin <austin@tx.com> wrote:

>On 03 Jun 2024, "Klaus Schadenfreude"
><klaus.schadenfreude.zdicksucker@qmail.com> posted some
>news:Lxl7O.33784$Dsz1.24262@fx14.iad:
>
>> Mike Colangelo wrote:
>>
>>> On 6/2/2024 11:53 AM, Loran aka "MassPeekWa" aka "CaLaVeRa "spammy,
>>> fucking lying cocksucking HIV-oozing pseudonymous
>>> liar-who-has-not-been-defamed, lied:
>>>
>>> > On 6/2/2024 8:58 AM, tRUMP's Criminal Mind wrote:
>>> > > Sharpton cautioned
>>> >
>>> > There's where
>>>
>>> It's spammy again, lying as always.
>>
>>
>> Rudy sucks dick.
>
>He's short too.

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