Posted on 11/26/2020 1:54:01 PM PST by xomething
The former U.S. president said people were ‘surprised about a lot of Hispanic folks who voted for Trump.’
November 25, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Former U.S. President Barack Obama said this morning in a New York City radio interview that “a lot of … evangelical Hispanics” voted for Trump because they agree with his views against abortion, despite the fact, according to Obama, that Trump says “racist things.”
The interview happened during The Breakfast Club morning show on 105.1 FM as a promotion for a new book by Obama, with relevant clips tweeted by The Recount.
Mr. Obama stated, “People were surprised about a lot of Hispanic folks who voted for Trump. But there’s a lot of evangelical Hispanics who, the fact that Trump says racist things about Mexicans, or puts detainees, undocumented workers in cages, they think that’s less important than the fact that he supports their views on gay marriage or abortion."
In this year’s election, Mr. Trump gained significant support among Latino voters, National Review reported. “For example, in 93 percent Hispanic Zapata County in Texas, Trump won by six percentage points (in 2020) while Hillary Clinton carried the county in 2016 by 33 percentage points.”
Further, the report continued, “The ‘cages’ Obama refers to were in fact built during his administration, as chain-link enclosures meant to temporarily house illegal immigrants at border facilities.”
Other commentators emphasized that the motivations of Latinos may have been altogether different. Ben Domenech, co-founder of The Federalist, tweeted, “Oh I dunno maybe it had more to do with DEFUND THE POLICE and SOCIALISM IS FINE than gay marriage… There is literally no proof - on a data basis, polling basis, anecdotal basis - that Obama's ‘gay marriage drove Hispanics to vote Trump’ claim is true. It's a bigoted claim, and it's a lie.”
Ben Shapiro tweeted, “According to Barack Obama, people who oppose him are: - Hispanic bigots - White bigots - Religious bigots I'm sensing a pattern.”
In the same interview, Mr. Obama utilized more language from the school of identity politics deriding a “sense that white males are victims” in “Republican politics,” and the “sincere belief” that “they’re the ones that are under attack.”
David Horowitz recently pointed out the ironies of such rhetoric, observing, “Identity politics is a pure form of racism, yet Trump is the only Republican I’m aware of who has had the political spine to call a Democrat a racist.”
He went on to explain that “race is the principal weapon wielded by Democrats, (and) this is most evident in their claim that there is ‘systemic racism’ in America, which needs to be rooted out even if it means destroying the very foundations of law and order.” The problem, he noted, is the charge of “systematic racism … is never accompanied by evidence.”
“Systemic racism has been outlawed in America since the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If there were actual instances of systemic racism in 2020, there would be lawsuits – plenty of them,” he affirmed. “You never hear of massive lawsuits over systemic racism because ‘systemic racism’ is a myth. The myth lives because it is an indispensable weapon wielded by Democrats to advance their anti-democratic agendas and quests for power.”
Go away. We served our eight year sentence.
Obozo is a two-faced racist.
Obama, a stinking turd on the sidewalk, if there ever was one.
Unlike the other abortion loving Catholics, AKA white Democrats.
Obama, go to Hell. Go directly to Hell...
To roaches... 😀
[[[This was a bad move by Obama. Public condescension toward a ethnic group is always bad politics.]]]
Yes, and he and the Democrats need to beat over the head with it at every opportunity.
This was the power of a Trump presidency.
Latinos love their children - oh the horror!
The Hispanics are on the right side. Obama is on the wrong side of this issue. Children are being murdered legally because of people like him. He is a Ghoul and a slob!
Pretty much.
A fool is easily recognized
Obama is not only a racist, he IS racism. Like can’t see the forest for the trees.
Gee, I’m sure Hispanics are very flattered by that dismissal of their ability to make their own rational choices.
Obama’s mother should have had an abortion. Hillary’s, too.
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Says the baby murderer in chief ....
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Geezus... what a DUMBA$$ Obunga is!
Coming soon... a NEW version of the book "How to Win Friends & Influence People" by Dildohead Obunga!
The dims do say anyone who supports or votes for Trump are racists.
Calls the sitting POTUS a racist???
A person who has LIED ALL HIS LIFE,, and is 50% White race and 50% Black race, if one can believe WHO his birth father really is...
Everyone who knows, is DEAD...except his half, mixed race sister. And she is in hiding and never speaks out, hasn’t since the gang left the White House four years ago...SHE KNOWS THE TRUTH...
HIS RECORDS ARE LOCKED FOR 50 YEARS??? LOL, WHY IS THAT?
Never in my life time has a FORMER POTUS spoken out like BARRY HUSSEIN has.
He is this Nation’s biggest mistake ever...
Don’t forget the mindless Biden’s comments on Hispanic Americans that took a shot at black Americans. He said Hispanics have much more sophisticated cultural diversity than blacks.... there is a quote somewhere. REALLY pissed off blacks vs. Trump’s inclusiveness.
Amazingly obamaumao is trashing hispanics while biden was not-—and both of them racists all on their own. Clearly obamaumao is doing the work of valJar here for COMMUNIKAMELA— the “black” “Indian”... heeels up global whore who the ultra left/techies think is cool. And is as dumb as a rock.
Biden saying to rapper/actor Charlamagne “Well I tell you what, if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.” did not help much either.
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