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Demovictory9

(32,320 posts)
Sun May 31, 2020, 12:24 AM May 2020

George Floyd's brother says Trump 'didn't give me an opportunity to even speak' during phone call

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/30/politics/george-floyd-brother-talks-trump/index.html

Speaking to MSNBC's Al Sharpton, George's brother, Philonise Floyd, said his conversation with President Trump was "so fast."

"He didn't give me an opportunity to even speak," Floyd said. "It was hard. I was trying to talk to him, but he just kept, like, pushing me off, like 'I don't want to hear what you're talking about.'

"And I just told him, I want justice. I said that I couldn't believe that they committed a modern-day lynching in broad daylight," he said.
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smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
5. Of course he wouldn't. He doesn't want to hear it.
Sun May 31, 2020, 12:37 AM
May 2020

He just wants to believe the fantasy in his head about what a fantastic job he is doing while it is very apparent to the rest of the country and the world that he has fucked up beyond belief.

I am so sorry for Philonise Floyd. It was adding insult to injury. I feel terribly sorry for that family. I can't imagine how heartbroken they must feel.

sheshe2

(83,324 posts)
6. "I don't want to hear what you're talking about."
Sun May 31, 2020, 12:41 AM
May 2020

Of course he doesn't.

Why did he bother even making the call?

Warpy

(110,900 posts)
14. Becaise Biden talked to the family the previous day
Sun May 31, 2020, 03:14 AM
May 2020

and Big Dummy didn't want him to get away with that, no suh, Big Dummy is the STAR of this reality show and that family had better learn it quickly.

That's why. Somebody on his campaign team thought it was a good idea. Malignant narcissists should never be required to do any of this stuff. They're incapable of it.

Grins

(7,128 posts)
7. Well, yeah, but....
Sun May 31, 2020, 12:54 AM
May 2020

...he did tell you about his “massive landslide victory - as you know - in the Electoral College”?

No one had ever seen anything like it.

murielm99

(30,656 posts)
10. He contrasted the trump call with the Biden call.
Sun May 31, 2020, 01:58 AM
May 2020

He and Biden had an actual conversation. The call lasted about a half hour.

highplainsdem

(48,721 posts)
17. No surprise. The ONLY reason Trump made that call was that Biden had talked to the family earlier.
Sun May 31, 2020, 08:31 AM
May 2020

Trump just wanted to check off a call as quickly as possible so the WH could boast that he'd done the same.

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