Former TMZ personality Van Lathan on Friday said that one reason black voters are backing former President Donald Trump is because he embodies the “American dream.”

CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten on Monday said Trump is “careening towards a historic performance” among black voters as polls suggest President Joe Biden is hemorrhaging support among younger African Americans. Former CNN host Don Lemon on “The Don Lemon Show” said Trump represents what people “would like to say and like to have,” to which Lathan concurred, noting that “even some of the brothers that we see celebrating Trump” appreciate the former president for this reason.

“In a lot of ways, Donald Trump is, I should say for a lot of people, Donald Trump is the most crystal-clear example of the American dream,” Lathan said. “He is somebody who does whatever he wants, no matter who he hurts. He is somebody who says whatever he wants and he’s only stronger because of it. Like, there’s a freedom that some people aspire to in America, and it only comes with the ability to crush something.”

“A lot of people’s idea of the American dream isn’t us all doing well and having what we want; it’s dominance. It’s ‘we’re number one, we’re the best, we’re at the top of the food chain, we are sharks.’ And Donald Trump seems like an apex predator because he eats everything around him, even the people closest to him and no one calls him into question for it. And I think that’s what a lot of people want,” he added.

Lemon followed up by asking more specifically why black voters in particular are moving to Trump, with Lathan answering that the Democrats have not been “inspiring.”

“They don’t feel particularly inspired by Joe Biden,” he said. “They don’t see things changing in their neighborhoods, and the political promises they’re aware of from Joe Biden, they can see very obviously that they didn’t happen. And sometimes that runs at cross purposes with some of the other things the president has done, but if you say, ‘Hey, he didn’t give us voting rights,’ or ‘Hey, he didn’t give us police reform, that’s what he said he was going to do and it didn’t happen.’ Those are very big holes in what has happened in the last three years for Joe Biden.”

“When you’ve gotten all your social cues from different hip-hop artists [and] luminaries, those people are essentially capitalists that are waging their own PR wars and it’s hard to tell Donald Trump apart from them,” Lathan said. “I’ll just be honest with you, if you really look, it’s hard to tell Donald Trump from Jay-Z. That’s not saying that Jay-Z looks at the world like Donald Trump does. I’m not saying that at all. But what I’m saying is, you have a guy who is charismatic to the people that follow him, who acts in the interest of capitalism [and] making money, and who everybody else around him worships him and people look at it and go, ‘Well, that’s America. I want to be that guy.'”

CNN national politics correspondent Eva McKend recently claimed she can “say with certainty” that Democrats are “worried” about Trump gaining black voters.

https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2024/06/21/ex-tmz-personality-says-black-voters-shifting-to-trump-because-he-represents-american-dream/

President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) brainstormed about infiltrating local communities to spy on Americans, and suggested being “religious” or “in the military” was an “indicator of extremists and terrorism,” excerpts of documents obtained by America First Legal (AFL) purportedly show.

These excerpts, released Thursday by AFL, purport to show how in 2023, the DHS’s newly created “Homeland Intelligence Experts Group” looked for ways to expand their spying on American citizens, including by trying to “get into local communities in a non-threatening way” to get fellow Americans to tattle tale on their neighbors.

The committee, on which John Brennan and James Clapper — both notorious for their participation in the Russia-collusion hoax as well as for falsely claiming Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation — sat, also suggested religious Americans, members of the military, and Trump supporters were possible security threats, according to segments of the documents released by AFL.

“If you ask researchers to dive into indicators of extremists and terrorism, they might indicate being in the military or religious,” one segment states. “This being identified as an indicator suggests we should be more worried about these. We need the space to talk about it honestly.”

According to the released excerpts, the group appeared to acknowledge a “political advantage” to having the “political backdrop” be tied to Trump.

“There is a political backdrop to all of this. It seems that most of the Domestic Terrorism threat now comes from supporters of the former president,” the segment states. “It is not like you want a political advantage, but people have attacked the government and its institutions for the last six years.”

While the Biden administration agreed to disband the “Experts Group” in May after an AFL lawsuit, other federal agencies under Biden have ramped up their efforts to criminalize “opposition to the regime,” as my colleague Jordan Boyd pointed out.

The FBI has targeted Trump supporters under the auspices of fighting domestic terrorism, as a report from Newsweek explained in October, citing “a dozen current or former government officials who specialize in terrorism.”

Not only did the FBI expand its “anti-government or anti-authority violent extremists” (AGAAVE) classification to include the “furtherance of political and/or social agendas,” but it also created a new terrorism category, “AGAAVE-Other,” in October of 2022.

“[Y]es, in practical terms, it refers to MAGA, though the carefully constructed language is wholly nonpartisan,” an FBI officer told Newsweek.

This is a top-down ideology, exemplified by Biden himself espousing the baseless yet inflammatory claim that “MAGA Republicans are a threat to the very soul of this country.”

But the real threat is Democrats’ unabashed use of law enforcement agencies to target political dissidents. The FBI, for example, used a document from the left-wing extremist group, Southern Poverty Law Center, to target Catholics for beliefs like opposing abortion and holding orthodox views on sex. The FBI labeled these individuals as “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists,” as reported by The Daily Signal.

https://thefederalist.com/2024/06/21/report-dhs-group-called-being-religious-an-indicator-of-domestic-terrorism/

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tyb

Donald Trump is coming to Philadelphia Saturday for a rally at Temple University, a first for the former president who famously said “bad things happen” here.

The rally comes less than a week ahead of the first presidential debate of the 2024 election, which takes place Thursday in Atlanta. It will be the first time appearing on a debate stage since 2020 for both Trump and President Joe Biden, since Biden didn’t face a serious challenge during the Democratic primary and Trump skipped the debates held during the Republican primary.

Trump is likely the first Republican presidential candidate to hold a campaign rally on Temple’s campus, an area where he struggled to gain support during his previous two presidential runs. In 2020, Trump received just 5% of the vote in precincts within a half-mile radius of Temple University’s main campus, according to an Inquirer analysis of election data.

This isn’t Trump’s first visit to Philadelphia this election cycle. In February the former president made a brief appearance at Sneaker Con at the Philadelphia Convention Center, where he was booed while unveiling a pair of gold sneakers priced at $400. He also appeared at a beach rally in Wildwood, last month, where he falsely claimed there were riots at his alma mater the University of Pennsylvania and criticized Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner.

Trump’s rally is being held at The Liacouras Center on Temple’s campus in North Philadelphia.

The 10,206-seat venue, which opened in 1997, hosts Temple basketball games and other events. It was originally named “The Apollo of Temple” but was renamed in 2000 to honor Temple President Peter Liacouras prior to his retirement.

Doors are scheduled to open at 3 p.m., and Trump is expected to begin delivering his remarks at 7 p.m.

It’s unclear how long the rally will last. Last month in Wildwood, Trump was late to the stage and spoke for more than 90 minutes.

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/trump-rally-philadelphia-saturday-time-location-information-20240621.html

>>21064986

i am a temple graduate, so excited to see that President Trump will be holding a rally there

so, when i attended the university back in the 80's, the student body consisted of roughly 1/3 black, 1/3 jewish, and 1/3 working class whites

the university is located in north philadelphia, which is an impoverished and high crime area of the city, predominately african American

temple was known for its stellar basketball team back in the 80's

the temple football team has been notoriously awful, with exception in 2015, when temple beat penn state for the 1st time since 1941

look forward to watching Trump speak at the rally today and am interested in seeing the crowd demographics give the location