Mr. Central Park Five, Donald Trump, is now on the warpath against the Biden campaign because four criminal defendants in Minnesota were released on bail money raised by the Minnesota Freedom Fund in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. The fund received over $30 million in donations, according to the The New York Times. And Reuters reports at least 13 Biden staffers donated to the fund.

The Trump campaign began spinning that fact into a plea that Biden is releasing dangerous criminals into society, a few hours after Kamala Harris was declared the Democratic vice presidential candidate. No mistaking this dog whistle.

This is far and away not Trump’s first foray into Willie Horton territory. Surely you recall the cop-killing immigrant ad which played in 2018 when Trump was claiming that a “caravan” composed of brown hordes was headed over the Mexican border to take over America. And Jeb Bush will be happy to tell you about the ads in 2015 which edited together images of undocumented immigrants accused of committing murder alongside a quote from Bush, saying that illegal immigrants come to the United States out of an “act of love” for their families. The immigrants may love their own families, but they’re out to rape and kill yours, was the Trump campaign message. And they’re doing it again, pure Willy Horton. Business Insider:

Horton was a convicted felon and sentenced to life in prison for murder. He was a member of a Massachusetts weekend furlough program, which allowed him to leave the prison on the weekend to work or spend time at home. After leaving the prison one weekend in 1986, Horton did not return, ultimately raping a white woman and assaulting her white boyfriend before being captured in 1987, according to The New York Times.

[George H.W.] Bush’s Democratic opponent, Dukakis, was the governor of Massachusetts during Horton’s release. Before Dukakis was elected governor, a Republican governor passed the weekend furlough program. While Dukakis did not create the program, he was a supporter of it, which Bush used to convince voters that Dukakis was soft on crime.

This was a great smear campaign. Bush’s campaign manager, Lee Atwater said, “By the time we’re finished, they’re going to wonder whether Willie Horton is Dukakis’ running mate.” So we had Horton back then, and right now we’ve got four bailees in Minnesota. The message is clear now, just as it was back in 1988. If you want to keep the black people down and out of your hair, and most emphatically, out of your neighborhoods, you need to vote for Donald Trump. He’ll take care of that for you.

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  1. And of course, in the minds of the GOP-T, the cops never over-charge people or file false charges, because everyone they arrest and charge must be guilty or they wouldn’t have been arrested.

  2. Who will now be suing, on behalf of these people, for destroying their right to a fair trial, and for slander, as they are deemed innocent till proved guilty?

    • I hope so. They have been slandered for political reasons, and as you note, their ability to receive a free and fair trial has been irreparably corrupted.

  3. The innocent central park five are still waiting for Trump to apologize for wanting them executed, although they were cleared. I’m sure he’s very sorry for treating his blacks that way.

  4. It’s a different world than it was 30 some years ago. These Willie Horton tactics now are easy to read and voters will recoil from this, other than Trump’s hardcore overtly racist base.

    • The way I see it. Trump is the wrong person to call anyone out for crimes. The only reason he doesn’t have a rap sheet yet is because he’s president. He’s guilty of plenty. His lawyer went to jail for being an accessory to a crime they committed. Correct me if I’m wrong but doesn’t the one committed the crime get more trouble the accessory.

    • You have to know, by now, if, like the majority of, (voting), Democrats, who have proven over the last four or more years, to understand just what a giant loser DJT is, tiring of the 20 thousand lies and their repeats, seeing family and friends dead, simply because numb nut’s is worried about himself and his marvelous numbers …

      He has inherited the virus, it never WAS the, “Chyna”, virus, his destruction of everything Obama had in place to immediately counteract a pandemic disease, then, with hiding PPE’s, killing 1500 front line Dr’s and Nurses, who gave everything they had to treat people, now, his stupid, “Not going to order testing kits, might show, ‘Bad numbers’, so his, “Not going to take ANY responsibility”, for the virus problem + his big plan to NOT increase/establish a REAL testing system has come to this … NOTHING being done by his administration, to fight the disease …

      May he rot in hell at least twice ….

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