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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Saturday that blacks will vote for him in the November elections because of tragedies like the way NBA basketball star Dwyane Wade‘s cousin was shot and killed while walking her baby in Chicago.
“Dwyane Wade’s cousin was just shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago. Just what I have been saying. African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!” the New York magnate said on his Twitter account.
Nykea Aldridge, cousin of the Chicago Bulls star -formerly of the Miami Heat, died Friday at age 32 after being shot while walking her baby through the Parkway Gardens neighborhood on the South Side of the violent city of Chicago.
Wade expressed Friday his indignation on Twitter: “My cousin was killed today in Chicago. Another act of senseless gun violence. 4 kids lost their mom for NO REASON. Unreal. #EnoughIsEnough.”
Trump’s message Saturday on the social network about the incident sparked a storm of indignation and many users accused him of using a tragedy for his own political profit.
An hour later, the magnate posted another message in a very different tone: “My condolences to Dwyane Wade and his family, on the loss of Nykea Aldridge. They are in my thoughts and prayers.”
Trump believes this incident proves he was right when he recently described how blacks live in the United States: “Poverty. Rejection. Horrible education. No housing. No homes. No ownership. Crime at levels nobody has seen,” he said this week at a rally.
“You can go to war zones in countries that we’re fighting and it’s safer than living in some of our inner cities. They’re run by the Democrats,” he said.
With that argument, Trump called on blacks, among whom surveys show he has less than 10 percent support, and Hispanics, another electorate that basically opposes him, to vote for him because “what the hell do you have to lose?”
The campaign of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton made a quick video comeback with her answer to his question about what these minorities have to lose: “Everything.” EFE
Washington, Aug 27 (EFE)
