‘Get Past The Narratives That Come From Media’: Donalds Defends Trump From White Supremacy Claims

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On Wednesday, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) spoke about former President Donald Trump’s achievements for the Black community during a roundtable with business leaders.

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00:00So, let me say this real quick.

00:02Yes, sir.

00:04To the white supremacy deal.

00:06If that's what Donald Trump truly believed, then why would he undo the 94 crime bill?

00:12Because when you did that, what you predominantly did is you cut short sentencing of black men

00:19because in the mid-90s, Joe Biden and the Democrats felt that they wanted to treat crack cocaine

00:24as a higher threat of punishment than any other illicit drug in America.

00:30He came in and he unwound that.

00:34If your whole goal is, I want to be supreme, whatever the case might be, why would you do that?

00:41You see what I'm saying?

00:43This is not against you, but I know what you're saying.

00:46It's really more for them than for you.

00:48But I think that people have to get past the narratives that come from media.

00:53Dr. Carson knows what happens when the media wants to have a narrative.

00:56I know what it is when the media wants to have a narrative

01:00because they just push that as opposed to actually digging into the context.

01:04My mother always raised me to say, to think, do not listen to what people are saying.

01:09You look at what people are doing.

01:12I think that in our community, we have to get past the narratives that come primarily from media

01:18and from people who have agendas.

01:20Let's be clear because a lot of people have agendas and look at what's actually happening on the ground.

01:25I'm going to give you another one.

01:27What's that one? Charlottesville.

01:29That's a good one.

01:30The Charlottesville one, oh, there's good people on both sides.

01:33What was never reported, never really talked about,

01:36is that he was actually doing a press conference on infrastructure that day.

01:41That was a 17-minute press conference.

01:44By the way, Joe Biden hasn't given a 17-minute press conference since he's been president.

01:48I'll give you that one.

01:4917-minute press conference, right?

01:52He just kept saying, I condemn white supremacy.

01:56He said it like six or eight times.

01:58In that speech.

01:59In that same presser.

02:00The pressers keep asking the same question.

02:02I know they're all here.

02:03I love you guys.

02:04They keep saying the same thing.

02:06He kept saying it until he said, look, what else do you want me to say?

02:09You have this person on that side, that person on that side,

02:12and then you have bad people on both sides, and we can't have any of this.

02:15And they took good people on both sides and ran with that for three years.

02:20Ignoring everything else.

02:22The clip's still on YouTube today.

02:24Which is the point that a lot of people, to the point of people coming around,

02:28particularly young people, that's what they're seeing.

02:31They've been told something, and now they're seeing it real for themselves,

02:36and they're saying, wow, he never said that.

02:38It's happened several times.

02:40And that's what people are going through now.

02:42I think people are seeing the things that they're being told were said, was said,

02:47wasn't really said that way, or wasn't really said the same way they're reporting it.

02:52I mean, I'm seeing it all the time in what I do all the time.

02:56People will come back to me and say, I heard you say this.

02:59And I have to go back and pull what I actually said to send it to the person and say,

03:04no, I never said that.

03:06So I think when you talk about creating a narrative,

03:08how do you answer the question I asked you to ask that?

03:12I want to hear from Mark.

03:14I want to hear from Rocky.

03:15I want to hear what they have to say.

03:16But I would say the answer to your question is making sure that when someone comes to you with that,

03:21you don't have to deconstruct anything.

03:23You only have to show them what was really said.

03:25Because Reagan was cast the same way Trump was cast,

03:31the same way George W. Bush was cast,

03:33the same way H.W. was cast.

03:35They all were cast as dumb, racist, and not qualified.

03:39The same three hits for all four people.

03:42All four.

03:43Reagan, Bush, H.W., and Trump.

03:45All Republicans were cast and attacked in the same verbiage used every single time they ran by the same media outlet.

03:53So you hit a good point.

03:54It is a good one now.

03:55Everybody remembers when they were going to –

03:59Then Kanye did it right after Katrina.

04:01George Bush doesn't like black people.

04:03He doesn't care about black people.

04:05And that was the narrative.

04:07Until it came out that W. and Michelle Obama have a good relationship.

04:12And now in today's media, it's, oh no, we like George W. Bush.

04:15He was great.

‘Get Past The Narratives That Come From Media’: Donalds Defends Trump From White Supremacy Claims

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