Karine Jean-Pierre responds to Trump and says his mugshot and charges help him with black voters, saying it’s ‘repulsive’ and ‘blasphemous’ against ‘trafficking in stereotypes’
Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre ccalled former President Donald Trump’s comments “abhorrent” and “blasphemous” after the 2024 hopeful said Black voters like him more now that he has posed for a mugshot and has been criminally charged 91 times.
On Friday, Trump headlined the Bmissed the Conservative Federation Honors Gala in Columbia, South Carolina, raising eyebrows over increased African-American support.
The top White House spokeswoman, who is Black, was asked Monday about Trump’s comments aboard Air Force One as President Joe Biden traveled to New York City to raise money for his reelection efforts.
Jean-Pierre said it was “repulsive and divisive when it comes to stereotypes.”
“In any context, it is blasphemous to compare the long, painful history of abuse and suffering by Black Americans to something completely different out of self-interest,” she said.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre (left) called former President Donald Trump’s (right) comments “abhorrent” and “blasphemous” after the 2024 hopeful said black voters like him more now that he has posed for a mugshot and faced criminal charges has been indicted. time
Trump’s appearance at the Black Conservative Foundation event came the night before the South Carolina primary, which he easily won over rival former U.N. ambassador. Nikki Haley.
“When I took the mugshot in Atlanta, that mugshot was No. 1. You know who was embraced more than anyone else?” Trump asked the predominantly African-American audience. ‘The black population.’
He complained that he was being sued for “nothing” — claiming that black voters understand that because they see that “what happens to me happens to them.”
“Does that make any sense?” Trump asked.
He received cheers and applause from the audience.
‘And “A lot of people said this is why black people like me, because they’ve been hurt so badly and discriminated against, and they basically saw me as being discriminated against,” Trump said.
“It was pretty amazing, but there may be something there,” the former president added.
During the event, Trump also joked, “These lights are so bright in my eyes that I can’t see that many people.” But I only see the black one. I don’t see any white ones.’
“You see, I’ve come this far. This is how far I’ve come,” he added.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley called former President Donald Trump “disgusting” after he said black voters like him more now that he has posed for a mugshot and has been criminally charged 91 times
After voting for herself at her polling place on Kiawah Island on Saturday, Haley took issue with Trump’s comments, calling them “disgusting.”
The former governor of South Carolina said, ‘that’s what happens when he leaves the teleprompter, that is the chaos that comes with Donald Trump, that is the insult that will happen every day between now and the general election.”
“That’s why I keep saying Donald Trump can’t win a general election. He won’t do that,” she added.
The Biden campaign initially took issue with Trump’s decision to address the predominantly Black crowd at all.
“Trump’s audacity to address a room full of Black voters during Black History Month as if he is not the proud poster boy for modern racism,” Jasmine Harris, Black Media Director for the Biden campaign, said in a statement on Saturday.
“This is the same man who falsely accused the Central Park 5, questioned the humanity of George Floyd, compared his own impeachment trial to being lynched, and caused the unemployment gap for Black workers to skyrocket during his presidency,” she continued.
“For years, Donald Trump has been showing Black Americans his true colors: an incompetent, anti-Black tyrant who holds us in such low regard that he publicly dined with white nationalists a week after declaring his candidacy for 2024,” Harris added .
Trump launched his 2024 presidential bid on November 15, 2022.
Days later, he sat down for a controversial dinner at Mar-a-Lago with rapper Kanye West, who is black but has come under fire for making anti-Semitic comments, and white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
“Come November, no matter how many insincere voter engagement events he attends, Black Americans will show Donald Trump that we know exactly who he is,” Harris said.
Trump hopes to chip away at some of the support President Joe Biden had with Black and Latino voters in 2020.
Biden won about 90 percent of the black vote in 2020.
While high, that is a decline from the support black voters gave to Hillary Clinton, Trump’s 2016 rival, which stood at 93 percent.
President Barack Obama, the nation’s first black president, received 97 percent of the black vote during his 2012 re-election.