A man who says he was a founding member of the Black Panther Party explained why he supports former President Donald Trump in the presidential election in an interview posted to TikTok on Monday afternoon.
The man in the video identified himself as David Hilliard. offered He praised Trump as a leader of the Black Panther Party, calling him a “friend of African-Americans” and an “upstanding man” who supported the party financially, and said that when Trump was a college student during his alleged support of the party in the 1960s, he reportedly “ran all of Harlem.”
“Trump is a friend of African-Americans, and I’ve known Trump since the 1960s in New York. He’s from New York, and he’s a friend of African-Americans. He’s a respectable person. I mean, he’s not a racist,” the man said. “He’s a white man who’s not a racist or a fascist. He supported black people.”
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The man, who gave his name as Hilliard, claimed Trump was convicted of a felony for his friendly attitude toward the black community. A jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records to hide $130,000 in hush money paid to former porn star Stormy Daniels not to go public with her alleged affair before the 2016 election, convicting him of a felony just months before the 2024 election.
“Trump loves Africans in America. He loves black people. That’s one thing. I think he’s the right person for the job and it’s a very decent approach to represent America. Trump is a very decent person. He’s always been a friend to black people. That’s what I know him as,” Hilliard continued. (RELATED: ‘Keep riding the roller coaster’: CNN host fires back at Democratic senator for Biden’s ‘wrong handling’ of Black voters)
Trump’s campaign has sought to reach out to the black community following his conviction, to evoke empathy for the justice system’s alleged unfair treatment of himself and African Americans. according to Tim Scott, a Republican senator from South Carolina and former primary candidate, was quoted as telling CNN that black Americans are turning to Trump because they want “jobs and justice”, Axios reported.
“The two big reasons why so many African-Americans are joining the Trump campaign are jobs and justice,” Scott told Axios. “As an African-American who was born and raised in the Deep South and had concerns about the justice system on race, I’m now watching it play out in partisan terms.”
Black support for President Joe Biden has hit its lowest point since the civil rights era, with Biden currently leading the former president among black voters 70% to 18%, The New York Times/Siena College reported. vote Since late May. The incumbent won 92% of the Black vote in 2020.
According to the NYT/Siena poll, Biden is only leading Trump among Hispanic voters, 47% to 42%.
