In an interview conducted last week but printed on Friday for some reason, convicted felon former President Trump told Semafor he has “so many Black friends that if I were a racist, they wouldn’t be friends, they would know better than anybody, and fast. They would not be with me for two minutes if they thought I was racist – and I’m not racist!” in reply to reporter Kadia Goba’s question on how he responds to Black voters who call him racist… Since there’s plenty of evidence he is.
The whole context of the interview was his campaign’s not terribly well-executed attempt to appeal to Black voters whom, in many cases genuinely, suffered abuses at the hands of the justice system.