President Trump flipped the script on the ABC reporter at the National Association for Black Journalists. He was able to appear in person to have Rachel Scott attack him straight away. Reporters are typically hostile to Republicans, only presenting one side. The President had the opportunity to present that other side and he hit her in a number of directions. That other side needs to be heard daily.
Trump was hit out of the gate
Without even a “Hello, how are you?” Scott mocked him, “You’ve called yourself the candidate of law and order,” referencing that he might pardon people jailed on January 6.
Scott didn’t think they deserved pardons. “Were the people who assaulted those 140 officers, including those I just mentioned, patriots who deserve pardons?”
Trump brought up what just happened as well as other acts of violence that were treated very differently.
“Well, let me bring it back to modern day, like about five days ago. We had an attack on the Capitol, a horrible attack on the Capitol. You saw the people that were protesting and spraying these incredible monuments, bells, lions, all this magnificent limestone and granite with red paint, red spray paint that will never actually come off, especially on the limestone. I’m a builder. I know about this stuff. You’ll see it in a hundred years from now. They viscously attacked our government. They fought with police. They fought with them much more openly than I saw on January 6th. What’s going to happen to those people?”
January 6 protesters are being treated differently
Trump said, “If they’re innocent, I would pardon them.” Scott doesn’t see the problem. “They’ve been convicted.”
He responded, “Well, they were convicted by a very tough system.” He spoke about the tons of George Floyd protests.
“What’s going to happen to the people in Portland that destroyed that city? How come the people that tried to burn down Minneapolis, how come the people that took over a large percentage of Seattle, how come nothing happened to them?” Scott tried to protest but he reminded her that these were federal buildings. “No no no, we’re talking about federal buildings.”
People died and nothing was done
The only person who died on January 6 was Ashli Babbitt. Trump noted, “But people died in Seattle. Nobody died, but people died in Minneapolis. And nothing happens to those people. But you went after the J6 people with a vengeance. What about the police that are ushering everybody into the Capitol? Go in, go in, go in. What about that?”
According to what the media has been telling people for years, the President is racist so Scott went down that road. He responded,
“Well, first of all, I don’t think I’ve ever been asked a question in such a horrible manner, first question. You don’t even say, ‘Hello, how are you?’ Are you with ABC? Because I think they’re a fake news network, a terrible network. And I think it’s disgraceful that I came here in good spirit. I love the black population of this country. I’ve done so much for the black population of this country.”
Trump has worked to boost black employment. He worked with Tim Scott as part of the Opportunity Zones project which was part of the tax cuts. It was a tax incentive for economically distressed communities.
