Donald Trump, doing his best to get Jay Jones elected attorney general in Virginia, “can’t imagine anybody voting for Jay Jones,” the POTUS said on Sunday, answering a reporter in one of his Air Force One gaggles, on his way back from another taxpayer-funded golf trip to Florida.
This sentence was pretty much the nicest thing Trump had to say in the sperm of the moment about Jones, who he called an “animal” – which, you know, Jay Jones, Black man, Trump, White nationalist, calling a Black man an “animal,” par for the course for Trump on that.
First, it was “animal,” then Trump went to “third-rate intellect” – his go-to putdown for people of color.
“Anybody would be put in prison for what he said,” Trump went on, tripling down on the race-baiting.
Black folks, to Trump, are animals, third-rate intellects, and they need to be in prison.
Trump, quite obviously, doesn’t want to endorse Winsome Earle-Sears for governor, for two reasons – one, she’s losing, bigly, in the polls, but there’s also the inescapable reality that, she’s Black, and an immigrant.
Democrats have been trying to goad Trump, who is polling in the high 30s and low 40s in Virginia right now, into sticking his proboscis into the Virginia state races.
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Last week, it was two Abigail Spanberger TV spots featuring endorsements from Barack Obama, who Trump considers, above all others, his sworn enemy, because Obama made fun of him to his face at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
I couldn’t make out the identity of the reporter who pushed the Jay Jones button, but no doubt, the Spanberger and Jones folks want to ship her some Magnolia Bakery pumpkin pie banana pudding as a show of gratitude.
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Chris Graham
