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slothrop@lemmy.ca to Leopards Ate My Face@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 hours ago

Three-time Trump voter denounces president over racist Obamas video: 'I want to apologize'

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Three-time Trump voter denounces president over racist Obamas video: 'I want to apologize'

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slothrop@lemmy.ca to Leopards Ate My Face@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 hours ago
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A man who voted for Donald Trump in his three presidential elections denounced the commander-in-chief after he posted a racist video of Barack and Michelle Obama depicted as apes.During Friday's edition of C-SPAN's Washington Journal program, a man named John called in from New Mexico to express his...
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    I could understand 2016. I can forgive 2020. 2024 is pushing it.

    but now? NOW is when you change your mind? if you’ve been a die hard trumper this long it seems weird to change now

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      In 2016 it was already perfectly clear that this fucker is the most spectacularly unqualified person for the job. And he never made any secret of his odious views. If you ever voted for Trump, you’re an asshole. No excuses.

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      I could understand 2016. I can forgive 2020.

      I can’t do either of those things. Anyone who paid the least attention should have known he was crazy 60 years ago if not longer.

      He used to tell a tall tale about how he lived in a cardboard box in the street in NYC until someone gave him a $5 bill which he invested to build his “empire” (his preferred word for it at the time). I can’t possibly be the only person to remember that ludicrous bullshit.

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      I could understand 2016.

      Donald Trump placed advertisements in several prominent newspapers, including Newsday, in 1989 calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty so that the Central Park Five could be executed for their alleged crimes.

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        Iirc his “inspiration” for that was a recent trip to Moscow.

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