2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumEx-Aide Suggests Black Communities Not 'Safe Environment' For Trump Rallies
Donald Trump's ex-campaign manager on Monday defended his former boss' choice to deliver speeches supposedly aimed at black voters while in largely white communities, explaining that the last time Trump tried to give a speech in a black neighborhood it was "overrun" and "not a safe environment."
"You know what ' amazing to me is that no one remembers that Donald Trump went to go have a rally in Chicago at the university," Corey Lewandowski said on CNN. "And do you remember what happened? It was so chaotic and it was so out of control that Secret Service and the Chicago Police Department told him, you could not get in and out of that facility safely, and that rally was canceled."
In March, the Trump campaign canceled a rally planned at the University of Illinois in Chicago because of protests outside of the venue.
"And you showed the footage many times of the individuals who attended that rally. Donald Trump had that rally booked," Lewandowski added.
The other panelists pressed Lewandowksi on what that event had to do with the current scrutiny of Trump's comments to black voters.
"That is a black community. He went to the heart of Chicago to go and give a speech to the University of Chicago in a campus, which is predominantly African-American, to make that argument," Lewandowski said, mistaking the name of the university where the speech was supposed to take place. "And you know what happened? The campus was overrun and it was not a safe environment."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/lewandowski-trump-speeches-black-communities-not-safe
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Old and In the Way
(37,540 posts)Chicago isn't the Heart of Dixie...nor is any city where populations are 500K or more.
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)advised him to cancel in Chicago, saying basically they told trump they could get him in and out and never told him to cancel. Trump people canceled .
The police issued these statements after not being amused about the lie.
Second this university is not an AA university and only about 30% or so of the surrounding area is AA, and the university itself AA student percentage ?
About 8%
The Black student union of UIC however was part of the protest as was BLM as were plenty of concerned AA citizens of Chicago
The university of Chicago an entirely different university miles away is in a large AA community area but even the wrong campus is not primarily AA about 9%
He even had the university wrong but of course if he can lie and blame it all on an AA community and college not responding to their message or BLM to bring more direct racial hate why not ?
Yes there was a large AA percentage of protestors inside and out
Yes BLM was inside the convention but sorry Trump everybody came to protest you . There was many Chicago Latinos and Muslims and plenty white Chicagoans who don't like you too it seemed.
Now you are saying it was an AA outreach gone bad with the campus gone wild
Sick
The trump rally was held at the university of Illinois ,circle campus UIC
They have an extremely diverse engineer and medical school which is why there were so many different racial ,ethnic and religious groups protesting Trump there
Oh by the way these scum of the world trumpers detest are your next generation of medicine
Some of the old trump voters are going to eventually run into non white medical personal, or benefit from thier research whether they realize it now or not
UIC operates the largest medical school in the United States, and serves as a large research facility
Also the reason there were 10,000 people who showed up to protest outside and blocked the streets from trump is because we have a great transportation system so people came from all over the city to protest . All they had to do was hop on the el or get a bus and it was advertised for days
Plenty of brave AA in our city yes withstood the jeers of trump fans and went into the convention hall it is true, and it was not just students , plenty of concerned citizens along with organized groups like BLM
Also there were large church groups and political activists on the scene outside also
A large contingent from the university students itself that went inside were Bernie Sanders voters that organized( and it was Sanders the trump campaign originally blamed but now AA fits their agenda )
but every day working folk by the end of the day were part of the people protesting in the streets along with the organized groups before the evening rally
Some people were there protesting the day before 24 hrs or more. Plenty had to work and came the evening of
Sorry this is so long but they are telling lie upon lie in this interview to say they tried to appeal to AAs long ago way back in the campaign and look what happened is all
Bullshit it was a white pro trump crowd coming to a rally he booked in the city that is not all white
A majority when leaving ran to parking garages so let's guess they were from the suburbs or rural areas where trump is popular . They had cars not city bus passes
This wiki link even has the police response
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Donald_Trump_Chicago_rally_protest
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/10000-Protesters-Shut-Down-Trump-Rally-in-Chicago-20160312-0007.html
Monk06
(7,675 posts)and two tenses or is it just bad grammar?
mythology
(9,527 posts)He'd get booed out of the building and that wouldn't be safe for his ego.