Trump jets off to Dallas to give talk on race and policing - snubs city's top LEOs who are black

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June 11, 2020
By David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement

Right now President Donald Trump is on his way to Texas, where he will hold a roundtable discussion on policing and race at a Dallas megachurch, nearly three weeks after the police killing of an un armed Black man, George Floyd. Not invited: Dallas’ top three law enforcement officials – a police chief, sheriff and district attorney – all of whom are Black. The White House also refused to invite three U.S. Congressmen who represent the area, all of whom are Democrats and Black.

“The White House defended the snub, insisting the president will still hear a diversity of views before heading to a $10 million campaign dinner with two dozen donors who pony up at least $580,600 each for a meal and souvenir photo,” The Dallas Morning News reports.

Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot told the Dallas Morning News, “of course [Trump] would not be getting the full picture of advice from law enforcement. I don’t know who he’s going to get it from. I mean, we are the people on the ground.”

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While this is technically an official White House visit paid for by the taxpayers, the Trump administration is using the Trump campaign’s slogan and language, calling it a “Roundtable on Transition to Greatness: Restoring, Rebuilding, and Renewing.”

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https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/trump-jets-to-dallas-to-give-talk-on-race-and-policing-snubs-citys-top-law-enforcement-officials-who-are-black/

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After this con man, they need to revise the Hatch Act to include the president.

[uponit7771]

1. Trumps opening line: " my fellow white Americans, the sheriff is NEAR!..."

[padah513]

7. Lol Blazing Saddles

Now I have to dig through my DVDs and watch that and History of the World part I.

[uponit7771]

8. You got it!!! So many people miss that

[padah513]

10. Mel Brooks is the master and

That movie will be funny forever! I first saw it when I was stationed at Edwards AFB back in 79 or 80.

[CatWoman]

16. LOL!!!!

[uponit7771]

24. +1, reminds me of a MAGA Rally ... loll

[soothsayer]

2. 4 pm. I'll be watching (well, if it's televised)

[dawg day]

3. 2 dozen donors: at least $580,600 each for a meal and souvenir photo

Criminal wealth. Really. They are giving the equivalent of a lifetime's work at minimum wage for an evening with Trump.

And they're going to say that the waiters and bussers around them are overpaid.

[dalton99a]

4. "Whites-Only Meeting. If I need to talk to the black people, I'll let them know"

[Bettie]

5. This illustrates a bunch of things

but I'd point out that that "hard limit" on individual political contributions isn't really a thing.

Rich people can give as much as they want to and money buys influence.

Also, I'm betting that his "talk" about race/policing will be able to be summed up with: be harsher, hit harder, kill..kill...kill.

[Totally Tunsie]

17. Be Best.

[bobbieinok]

6. The web page for campus says church is closed, meets online b/c of virus. Robot Morris is overall mi

Minister Robert Morris

* has said he has been possessed by demons

* was a leader in helping rehabilitate Mark Driscoll, who founded Mars Hill church in Seattle. He left the church b/c of many problems, scandals. Now heads a church in AZ I think

---Mark Driscoll preached that the OT book Song of Songs advocates oral and anal sex

---He also preached that Esther of the OT book of Esther was essentially a prostitute---she was groomed to entice the king so she could influence him to save the Jewish people. And she carried out her task very well

[padah513]

9. Wow

He thinks Esther was a prostitute? Don't think I ever heard her story iterated quite that way before. And I don't even want to go there with the Book of Songs.

[bobbieinok]

11. Not many other people did either. Driscoll explicitly targeted young, hip men

He said the church needs more men, it's too sissified. He wanted to get lots of young men to join. He also taught that women/wives are subordinate to men/husbands. I always thought it sounded like he was teaching a modern version of temple prostitution

There's a whole list of his teachings regarding women somewhere on the internet. IIRC he says women are essentially sheathes for a man's 'knife' He really worked to get young men to join the church/snark

[maxrandb]

12. We need to know who is at this $580K per person dinner

I want to know what companies and corporations they run.

I want to know what they're invested in.

[SoonerPride]

13. Oil. Prisons. Poisons. Weapons. Death.

[maxrandb]

14. So, just typical Retrumplicans

[soothsayer]

15. I just want to know what they're HAVING

Aside from coronavirus exposure

[Totally Tunsie]

18. Menu

[soothsayer]

22. Health food! And a hot covfefe?

[crickets]

25. And the White House chef felt a tiny piece of his soul die that day...

Seriously, how can he look so proud of himself standing behind sickening mounds of mediocre fast food?

[DesertRat]

19. The real purpose of the trip -- a $580,600/person fundraising dinner

Grifter-in-Chief

Link to tweet

[Revanchist]

20. But by having this b.s. meeting he can claim the trip was for official business

That way he can have the Government foot the bill for the trip instead of his campaign.

[DesertRat]

23. The art of the grift

[PufPuf23]

21. Individuals that attend the "roundtable" who are employees of the

Dallas PD, Dallas DA office, or Sheriff's Office should be summarily fired.

That aggressiveness is the only technique that will halt this BS.

Condemn and shun.

Christians should be called out on their failure to follow the NT words of Jesus. Racist hypocrites.