Again...there should be NO excuse for people to not vote in this election, or any election.
I don't wanna hear that "My vote doesn't count" bullshyt excuse. This is a prime example of people not voting
Michael Cohen Claims Trump Made Several Racist Comments Before 2016
Caitlin MacNeal
Now that Michael Cohen has fully turned his back on President Trump, the former fixer is starting to share damaging details about his old boss.
Cohen told Vanity Fair that he’s heard Trump make several racist comments over the years. Cohen said he “should have been a bigger person” and left his job for Trump over his alleged comments.
Cohen shared several of Trump’s alleged comments. According to Cohen, when driving through a “rougher neighborhood” in the late 2000s, “Trump made a comment to me, saying that only the blacks could live like this.” Cohen also claimed that Trump told him, “There’s no way I can let this black f-g win,” while explaining why he did not choose African-American investor Kwame Jackson as the winner of “The Apprentice.”
Michael Cohen Drops Bombshell: Trump Made Racist Comments, Said Black People ‘Too Stupid’ to Vote For Him
Michael Cohen revealed in an interview with Vanity Fair published Friday that his former client, President Donald Trump, repeatedly made racist statements.
The president’s former personal attorney has turned against his boss in a big way in recent months, not only by implicating Trump in hush money payments, but also urging Americans to vote Democrat in the midterm elections. Cohen spoke to Vanity Fair‘s Emily Jane Fox in light of the political violence of last week, and provided four anecdotes of Trump’s racist comments over the years.
The first instance detailed occurred in 2016, when Cohen was watching one of Trump’s campaign rallies, and observed that his crowds were almost entirely composed of white people. Trump’s reply: “That’s because black people are too stupid to vote for me.”
According to Cohen, this reminded him of a conversation he had with Trump shortly after the death of Nelson Mandela.
“[Trump] said to me, ‘Name one country run by a black person that’s not a shithole,’ and then he added, ‘Name one city.’”
This second instance draws parallels to the controversy sparked several months ago when Trump allegedly described Haiti, El Salvador and countries in Africa as “shithole countries.”
The third story Cohen offered was from a trip in the 2000s where he and Trump were in a car riding through a rough area of Chicago on the way to a business meeting. According to the president’s former lawyer, Trump took note of his surroundings and said something to the effect of “only the blacks could live like this.”
The last recollection Cohen had to offer was a moment when he was with Trump for a discussion about the season of The Apprentice that ended in a tete-a-tete between Bill Rancic and Kwame Jackson.
“Trump was explaining his back-and-forth about not picking Jackson,” an African-American investment manager who had graduated from Harvard Business School. “He said, ‘There’s no way I can let this black f-g win.’”
Cohen said that in retrospect, he wished he stopped working for Trump when he hear these remarks. Fox asked him why he’s coming forward with all of this now:
When I asked him why he was coming forward now with such uncomfortable claims, Cohen was clear: he knew that the president’s private comments were worse than his public rhetoric, and he wanted to offer potential voters what he believed was evidence of Trump’s character in advance of the midterm elections.
Prominent Texas Tea Partier Is ‘Very Proud’ To Call Himself ‘a WHITE NATIONALIST’
A tea party activist who helped the Texas Republican Party draft its 2018 platform proudly declared himself a “WHITE NATIONALIST” last week.
“Damn Right, I’m a WHITE NATIONALIST and very Proud of it,” Ray Meyers wrote on Facebook last Tuesday, in response to someone else’s post that accused President Donald Trump of being a white nationalist.
The Texas Observer, which reported on the Facebook post Tuesday, noted Meyers’ connections in the Republican Party: He is the founder and chairman of the Kaufman County Tea Party, was on the Ted Cruz presidential campaign’s “Texas Leadership Team” and served as a delegate for Cruz at the Republican National Convention in 2016.
In a phone call Friday, Meyers told the Observer that identifying himself as a white nationalist “doesn’t have anything to do with race.”
“I am Anglo and I’m very proud of it, just like black people and brown people are proud of their race. I am a patriot. I am very proud of my country,” he said. “And white nationalist, all that means is America first. That’s exactly what that means. That’s where the president’s at. That’s where I’m at and that’s where every solid patriotic American is. It doesn’t have anything to do with race or anything else.”
Though there is a distinction between the terms “white supremacist” and “white nationalist,” white people who consider themselves “nationalists” aren’t the same as those who identify specifically as “white nationalists.”
Merrill Perlman wrote in the Columbia Journalism Review last year: “Adding an adjective to indicate what ‘their’ nation is can turn ‘nationalism’ into a polarizing term. A ‘white nationalist’ generally wants a nation of white people. Whether that means creating a separate nation of just white people or pushing those who are not white out of their current nation depends on which branch of ‘white nationalism’ is talking.”
And the Southern Poverty Law Center defines white nationalist groups as those that believe “white identity should be the organizing principle of the countries that make up Western civilization.”