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Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)
Sat Jun 6, 2020, 04:56 PM Jun 2020

Chainsaw-wielding racist gets boosted by a top Trump aide as race protests sweep the nation

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/06/racist-boosted-by-trump-aide-mercedes-schlapp-race-protests-sweep-nation-304633

The activity by a senior Trump campaign adviser, and former White House aide, reflects a broader movement by some Republicans to attack the protests against police brutality.


Mercedes Schlapp. | Alex Wong/Getty Images

By MARC CAPUTO

06/06/2020 04:24 PM EDT

President Donald Trump and his allies for years have amplified racist messages on Twitter while simultaneously reaching out to black and Hispanic voters, a dissonant balancing act that’s now rocking the GOP amid nationwide racial-justice protests.

The two competing forces collided Saturday on the Twitter feed of Trump campaign senior adviser Mercedes Schlapp, when she boosted a tweet that lauded a man in Texas in a viral video as he yelled the n-word and wielded a chainsaw to chase away anti-racism demonstrators.

After POLITICO reached out to her and the campaign, Schlapp then retweeted another account that posted a version of the video that muted the racist slur.

Beyond Trump’s inner circle, Republicans have been under fire over racist social-media posts in Texas, where the chainsaw incident happened, triggering strife within GOP circles.

A dozen GOP county chairs in the state are under scrutiny for sharing racist social media posts commenting on the unrest and uprisings across the nation in response to the killing of a black man, George Floyd, by a white Minnesota police officer. One county chair juxtaposed a Martin Luther King Jr. quote next to an image of a banana, and another commented that “pandemic isn’t working. Start the racial wars.”

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Chainsaw-wielding racist gets boosted by a top Trump aide as race protests sweep the nation (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Jun 2020 OP
K and R dewsgirl Jun 2020 #1
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The deviousness... Snackshack Jun 2020 #3

Snackshack

(2,540 posts)
3. The deviousness...
Sat Jun 6, 2020, 05:10 PM
Jun 2020

Of the GOP has no limit.

What the GOP in Texas has been saying is just completely bonkers. One GOP chair posted that the George Floyd incident was a staged event to create racial tensions...and then there was the video above of the guy with a chain saw. The GOP has gone completely bonkers. Once DT is gone how does the GOP ever expect to be taken seriously as level headed mature adults who can be trusted to govern. I don’t see how they can.

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