When former President Donald Trump said the prosecutors investigating him were 'racist,' he skipped over the obvious detail that they were Black — and echoed racist messages that have proliferated in recent years.
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Michael Steele, who more than a decade ago was the first African American to chair the Republican National Committee, said Trump was being Trump. There is evidence that Trump’s words have had consequences. Willis — the Georgia prosecutor who asked a judge to impanel a special grand jury to help probe possible “criminal disruptions” by Trump and his allies during the 2020 presidential election and its aftermath -- told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that threats and racist slurs against her have increased since Trump’s rally in Texas., Willis called Trump’s rhetoric “alarming.
“The congressman is focused on issues that actually matter, which is supporting the America-first policies of the former president,” he said. A 2019 study by the Reflective Democracy Campaign found that only 5% of the country’s elected prosecutors were of color. But Black men and women now lead some of the country’s largest prosecutorial offices, including those in New York, Chicago, Dallas and Detroit.
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