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.