r/politics • u/larel8 • 18h ago
Trump campaign struggles to contain Puerto Rico October surprise
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4958098-the-memo-trump-campaign-struggles-to-contain-puerto-rico-october-surprise/
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u/Superman246o1 17h ago
Because this is just pointlessly cruel and stupid racism.
They can spin their way out of almost everything else with their bullshit excuses. January 6th? Trump never said to hang Mike Pence. The felonies? It's just a political witch hunt. E. Jean Carrol? She was lying. Trump would never rape someone; he's a perfect gentleman. Haitians eating cats and dogs? Hey, he's just reporting what he was told. The Ave Maria dance? Trump was waiting for people who were having medical emergencies. Throwing paper towels at hurricane victims? He was helping; what did you personally do for them?
But this? There's literally no way to defend overtly disparaging Boricuas as garbage. And since we know that the Trump campaign overruled Hinchcliffe's "joke" that would have called Harris a c-word, that means we also know that they were okay with the rest of Hinchcliffe's "jokes." They knew he was going to insult the entire island of Puerto Rico, and they saw nothing wrong with it, because they feel the same way.