In yet another ridiculous CNN segment in which the woke network’s hosts and guests showed they still really don’t get Trump or his popularity, far-left political activist Cornel West said, during a Thursday, February 20 appearance with CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead” that Trump is a “gangster” who is waging “war” against “black people and indigenous people.”
It was unclear to what, exactly, Cornel West was referring, other than anti-DEI policies, given that Trump’s policies have mainly been about fighting waste, fraud, and corruption in the federal government while using his power as executive to start rolling back some of Biden’s worst policies and defending the border.
In any case, West made up a Biblical commandment and called Trump a “gangster,” saying, “I would just say to brother Trump, I know that you’re a gangster. Gangsters don’t want to be concerned about truth and justice. They are obsessed with the 11th Commandment, Thou shalt not get caught. Say what you want with no accountability.”
West then made up a word, “answerability,” to attack Trump, saying that there is a “war” happening as the Trump Administration tries cutting back on waste in the government. He said, “Do what you want with no answerability, no responsibility. We are not just in conflict, my dear brother, but there is a war going on, brother Jake.”
Describing against whom he things that anti-corruption war is directed, West said, “It’s a war against working people, against poor people. It’s a war against black people and indigenous people. And we have to preserve the moral and the spiritual center of what we do against the gangsterization of the country.”
Tapper, egging West on, asked why he thinks Trump is fighting against DEI. He asked, “So what do you see as the motivation for President Trump targeting DEI programs?” West fired back that Trump is “transactional” and “manipulative,” saying, “Oh, he just transactional. He’s manipulative.”
He added, “He just he wants to do whatever he can do to keep his base alive and therefore he’s going to promote a variety of different kind of programs that will keep them revved up and make sure that they focus on scapegoating the most vulnerable immigrants, black people, precious Trans, as opposed to confronting the most powerful who are his billionaire friends, who are the ruling class that he loves to spend time with.” Watch them here:
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Meanwhile, back in reality, President Trump is actually waging war on the cartels and illegal immigration, as even NBC News Senior White House Correspondent Gabe Gutierrez reported when describing a conversation with a human smuggler, or “coyote,” in Mexico. That smuggler told him, reportedly, that “Trump’s stricter border policies have caused his business to plummet about 80% since Inauguration Day.”
Speaking about that, Gutierrez said, “Illegal border crossings dropped dramatically after the U.S. tightened asylum restrictions during the last part of the Biden administration. Since Trump was re-elected, they’ve fallen even more, 35% from December to January. Trump’s border czar now says they’re down to 229 a day, down from a peak of 11,000 a day during President Biden’s term.”
Continuing, he said, “Marcos is a coyote, a human smuggler in southern Mexico who’s concealing his face and last name. The troops won’t make a difference, he says, it’s foolishness, but he does concede Trump’s stricter border policies have caused his business to plummet about 80% since Inauguration Day.” Watch that here:
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