“New York executed a political lynching in front of the world and exposed the rigged justice system Blacks have endured for decades,” one ally said.
Some prominent Black allies of former President Donald Trump hope that his guilty verdict could help him out with Black voters come November.
After the jury in Donald Trump’s hush money case handed him a guilty verdict on Thursday, the former president and his supporters claimed he was an undeserving target of the justice system. And some high-profile backers of the former president tied his conviction directly to injustices suffered by Black Americans, something Trump has hinted at in the past.
“New York executed a political lynching in front of the world and exposed the rigged justice system Blacks have endured for decades,” Harrison Floyd, who led the outreach effort to Black voters in Trump’s 2020 campaign, posted on X. Floyd is one of Trump’s co-defendants in his Georgia election interference case.
Trump and his allies say the prosecution is part of an effort by Democrats to keep Trump out of the White House and to reinstall President Joe Biden. They hope to hurt Biden’s chances by cutting into his support from Black voters as he faces a lack of enthusiasm and an information gap among the important voting group. Black conservative leaders say disillusioned voters watching Trump be indicted will move further away from the Democratic Party.
“Black Americans are waking up to the politicization of the justice system against President Trump,” Diante Johnson, president of the Black Conservative Federation, posted on X. “We remember the Biden Crime Bill of 1994. We will ALSO remember in November.”
“BCF is energized, resolute, and ready to mobilize millions of voters across the country. Now more than ever!” a post from the Black Conservative Federation’s X account read.
Trump said in February that Black people identified with him due to his criminal charges. He told a crowd at the Black Conservative Federation’s annual awards gala in February that he is “being indicted for the Black population.”
