Trump, who has denigrated Black men, sees young Black men as jurors in a sex scandal trial

The former president “relies on deeply offensive, racist tropes while failing to acknowledge how many black and brown men have been treated unfairly by the system,” said Pennsylvania state representative Malcolm Kenyatta.

Attorneys representing Donald Trump in his historic hush money criminal trial in New York are reportedly in search of young black jurors who they imagine may very well be persuaded to acquit the previous president.

Like the New York Times. reported on Sunday, lawyers for the Republican presidential candidate “hope to find supporters and will focus on younger black men and working-class white men.”

Critics told Grio that Trump’s defense team’s strategy is unlikely to yield the specified results because the true estate mogul and “The Apprentice” star-turned-commander-in-chief has built a profession on vilifying Black men.

“I wish them luck,” said Svante Myrick, president of the progressive advocacy group People For the American Way.

The former mayor of Ithaca, New York, told TheGrio that while young black men could also be “open to listening if the accusation is unfair,” also they are “insightful.”

Trump is currently on trial for allegedly spending $130,000 in hidden payments before the 2016 presidential election to hide his affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels. He can be accused of being involved in secret payments to former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who could also be called as a witness. This is the primary time in history that a former US president is tried in a criminal case.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, the primary black man to steer the prosecutor’s office, filed 34 criminal charges against Trump. Bragg accused the previous president of covering up “crimes that concealed damaging information from voters during the 2016 presidential election.” If convicted, Trump could withstand 4 years in prison.

While Trump’s defense team reportedly believes that young black men may very well be one of the best likelihood to get a jury to acquit him or result in a hung jury, experts are pulling out corroboration about Trump’s record and the way he treated black men throughout his business and political profession.

Not only did Trump rise to political power by waging a racist conspiracy involving America’s first black president, Barack Obama, but in 1989 Trump infamously purchased a full-page newspaper ad calling for the death penalty against the Central Park Five, a group of black and brown teenagers accused of rape and attack on a white runner.

“I want to hate these robbers and murderers… and I always will,” Trump wrote in an ad in which he mourned the “roaming bands of savage criminals” on the streets of New York.

“Now it turns out they were completely innocent,” said Myrick, who considered the racial and historical context of why Black people, and particularly Black men, are suspicious of the criminal justice system.

“Their radar is always alert because they have a lot of experience with biased prosecutors,” he explained.

Michael Blake, a former New York assemblyman and longtime Democratic Party activist, told TheGrio that while “any black person would show some concern for the criminal justice system,” Trump has repeatedly shown venom towards black men.

“Donald Trump’s argument is that young black men should show compassion when he spends time attacking a black man,” Blake said of Trump’s attacks on Bragg, including calling him a “thug” and a “racist.”

Anthony Coley, a legal analyst and former Justice Department official, said of Bragg’s handling of the case: “Even in the face of all these political attacks, he keeps his head down and does what he has to do.”

But as for Trump’s alleged defense strategy of recruiting young black judges, Coley said he doesn’t buy it, telling the Grio: “It’s more like a campaign talking point than a real strategy.”

He added that each time people “hear or see something Donald Trump does, we should ask ourselves, is this a matter for the court of public opinion or is it for the court?”

Coley said the deal with black men “is more like his public speaking point because he’s trying to fend off even a few marginal voices and that’s all he needs in the 2024 election.”

Pennsylvania Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta, a member of the Biden-Harris 2024 campaign advisory board, said Trump “leans into deeply offensive, racist tropes while failing to address how many Black and brown men have been unfairly treated by the system.”

Trump’s real estate company has long been accused of racial discrimination in the housing system. In 1972, a Trump worker He admitted that his “boss” told him that he “wasn’t allowed to rent his apartment to black tenants.” After two years of fighting a Justice Department lawsuit, the billionaire settled a federal racial discrimination case by pleading not guilty.

Philadelphia Rep. Kenyatta said the twice-impeached former president has “actually no desire to address” the injustices Black men experience in the legal system. “He just thinks he can fool anyone he comes into contact with,” he argued. “He never worried about whether the system was fair or not. He was always worried about whether he could force the system to throw out all the rules that every other person had to live by.

The 33-year-old lawmaker said the 2020 presidential election, in which Trump refused to accept the results and falsely claimed voter fraud, was a case study in Trump’s refusal to follow the law.

“You saw him lose the election and you believed he didn’t have to follow the rules that every other president who lost had to follow,” Kenyatta said.

Former U.S. Rep. Mondaire Jones, D-N.Y., said voters “deserve much better” than Trump, who he said “incited a violent insurrection and continues to sympathize with Nazis.”

Jones, currently the Democratic candidate for the seventeenth Congressional District seat, said the opening of the primary of 4 criminal cases against Trump represents a “sad day for the American people.”

“Frankly, it is a shame that he is the Republican presidential nominee and that my opponent Mike Lawler, who claims to believe in law and order when defendants are black or low-income, supports Trump’s attempt to return the White House ”Jones said.

Trump, who will appear in court during a week-long trial in Manhattan, is predicted to make use of television cameras to portray himself as a victim of a corrupt system run by his 2024 opponent, President Joe Biden.

“The reality is that we’re here because the grand jury believes the facts… it’s really quite simple,” noted Blake, a former New York assemblyman.

“You can tell a lot when people can’t see the details, but I think once the details come out, it will be pretty clear that Donald Trump is lying once again.”

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