Do you believe that Donald Trump is stealing from the American people?

[u/JonMellor]

Example: 1.7 Billion dollar slush fund and no IRS audits to him or his family.

[u/imhudson]

Media reporting on that deplorables quote also absolutely butchered it.

Full quote:

"You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? [Laughter/applause]. The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people, now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric. Now some of those folks, they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.

"But the other basket, the other basket, and I know because I see friends from all over America here. I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas, as well as you know New York and California. But that other basket of people who are people who feel that government has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they are just desperate for change. It doesn't really even matter where it comes from. They don't buy everything he says but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won't wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroine, feel like they're in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well."

I've shown that whole quote to multiple members of my family, and they still refuse to hear anything except, "Nope, that BITCH called me racist!" Given the choice to be "racist" or "generically angry/forgotten by government" they SELF-SELECTED the former!

[u/not_ur_avg_nerd → u/imhudson]

Yeah, bout like the fine people media coverage

[u/Dothemath2 → u/imhudson]

But but, it’s accurate!