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Thread: Trump had the motive, opportunity, and means to start a race war designed to cause the infection, death, and incarceration of black voters.
Motive: Biden needs to turn out the black vote to win. Black voters in South Carolina saved Biden’s campaign and Biden is destroying Trump in polls of black voters. Obama and other black leaders are backing Biden and it’s starting to look like record black turnout in November.
Opportunity: At a press conference on April 7, Trump had a joyous epiphany that COVID-19 kills black people at a disproportionate rate.
Means: Within weeks of realizing the pandemic was killing black people at a disproportionate rate, Trump dissolved his pandemic task force and insisted that America reopen despite the risks. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-05/trump-says-u-s-must-reopen-even-if-more-americans-get-sick
But just reopening wasn’t enough. Trump needed to draw out black people in particular to infect them with the virus. Better yet, large crowds of *rioting* black people, giving Trump an excuse to call in military police to arrest them. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/05/30/george-floyd-protests-updates-news-minneapolis-response-overnight/5288818002/
Killing and incarcerating black people *always* has been a cornerstone of GOP electoral strategy. The “War on Drugs” was all about flooding black neighborhoods with drugs to kill and incarcerate them, complete with mandatory minimum sentences and termination of voting rights.
Trump is backed by Russia, and starting a race war in the US has been a primary goal of Putin’s Russia for many years.
https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1290&context=mjrl
https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1290&context=mjrl
Russian military intelligence specializes in Active Measures operations designed to do things like starting a race war. Putin absolutely could have orchestrated the execution of George Floyd.
And let’s not forget that Trump is a white supremacist who has been working to incite a race war for many years, and he’s done nothing but throw gasoline on the fire ever since Floyd was executed. https://twitter.com/blakesmustache/status/1266407343631237121
And Minnesota is a perfect place to start a race war. It’s struggled with racial violence and is a swing state with a Democratic governor who won’t help Trump cheat, so Trump could really use a wave of infection and incarceration crashing through Minnesota’s black community.
We can’t discount the possibility that Floyd’s execution was orchestrated to start a race war and draw large crowds of black people out of their homes and into the jaws of the virus and the riot police. And even if it wasn’t orchestrated, Trump is capitalizing on it.
Is it really a stretch to think that Trump is trying to incite a race war in an act of desperation to save his fledgling presidential campaign from a tsunami of black voters? No, it’s really not.
