Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign team is drawing stinging backlash on Twitter for using an image purportedly of MS-13 gang members to attack presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden:
— Trump War Room - Text TRUMP to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) April 16, 2020
Critics accused Trump’s campaign team of sending racist dog whistles to the president’s base.
Rep. Joaquín Castro (D-Texas) said “this is the kind of shit that led to El Paso,” in reference to the 2019 mass shooting at a Walmart store allegedly by a gunman suspected of holding white supremacist views.
This is the kind of shit that led to El Paso. @realdonaldtrump @IvankaTrump https://t.co/gf9AIEkiaM
— Joaquin Castro (@Castro4Congress) April 16, 2020
So this is how its going to be. here we go.
— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) April 17, 2020
It's April and they're going full racial incitement already.
— Frank Sharry (@FrankSharry) April 17, 2020
They know this shit doesn't really work. They tried it in VA gov race in '17 (D won by 9+), in '18 midterms (House Ds won nationwide by 8.6+) and even KY and LA govs this year.
I sense a bit of panic in Trumpworld. https://t.co/4atnQpYYgs
Trump's new homage to Birth of a Nation is really worth a look. https://t.co/wMSth3ioA2
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 16, 2020
Their Twitter feed, it would appear, is being run by preschoolers who haven't had a nap.
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) April 17, 2020
So you stole a photo a photographer took of a prison in Central America? Willie Horton much?
— chris TOTAL AUTHORITY crews (@christophcrews) April 17, 2020
— Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) April 17, 2020
Republicans spent 8 years passing around racist depictions of President and Mrs. Obama. All they offer is racism and incitement to violence in hope of distracting from their damage to the country. It's the party of racism. Trump is the arch-racist they will follow off a cliff.
— Kat 4 Obama (@Kat4Obama) April 17, 2020
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