Donald Trump is more relatable to Black voters after being 'persecuted,' allies claim as he brags mugshot is the 'best ever' ahead of presidential debate
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Black business owners in Atlanta said they related to Donald Trump more now that he has been criminally prosecuted.
Trump made a surprise call Wednesday into a roundtable discussion with Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-Texas) and Dr. Ben Carson at a barbershop just down the road from the first debate site.
While talking with a panel of seven other Trump surrogates and local black business owners at Rocky's Barbershop, Donalds answered an incoming call and gave everyone a chance to speak with the former president.
Trump bragged about his 'best ever' mugshot as black business owners swooned over the speakerphone call.
The former president is heading to Atlanta on Thursday for his first 2024 general election debate with President Joe Biden.
Nonprofit founder Marc KD Boyd (center) speaks with Donald Trump on speakerphone at a black business owners roundtable with Rep. Byron Donalds (right) and Rep. Wesley Hunt (left)
Marc KD Boyd, the Founder of the Atlanta nonprofit Helping Empower Youth, told Trump that the increase in 'support that you receive from the black community' is a reflection of the fact the black community feels 'we've received similar' treatment by the Justice system.
'We've been railroaded since the day we came here. We felt that way, right?' Boyd, who other panel members were calling 'Coach,' said. 'So you can acknowledge that you're getting support from black people because of this, then we can kind of acknowledge that we have been getting railroaded.'
'So my question is, what can you do about those Alvin Braggs on your side that have been doing such railroading. What can we do about those Fani Willis's and Alvin Bragg's that are, you know, right now sending some poor black person to jail for some crime?' the veteran and former Lockheed Martin employee questioned.
Bragg is the Manhattan District Attorney who brought the hush money trial against Trump that resulted in the 34 felony charges for falsification of business records related to his payment to keep porn star Stormy Daniels quiet about their affair ahead of the 2016 election.
And Willis is the District Attorney in Fulton County, Georgia where Trump is facing an election interference-related lawsuit.
Both Bragg and Willis are black.
Donalds holds the phone for Dr. Ben Carson as he talks with Trump on speakerphone over Rocky's Barbershop owner
Trump bragged on the call about his Fulton County mug shot, calling it the 'best ever'
Trump allies and black business owners met at Rocky's Barbershop to discuss how the former president's agenda has benefitted black businesses and minority communities
'Well, you know, it's an amazing thing when this happened,' Trump replied to Boyd. 'And as you saw all the legal scholars say these are not cases – these cases should not be brought. it's just it's just a terrible thing. It's weaponization.'
'But since that happened, the black support I think the representatives will tell you this, the black support has gone through the roof,' the former president claimed. 'And I guess they equated it to problems that they've had.'
'But since this has happened, like the mug shot, the mug shot is the best – It just beat Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra by a lot by the way,' he bragged.
'Since it happened. the support among the black community and the Hispanic community has skyrocketed.'
The infamous mugshot was taken when Trump was required to turn himself over to law enforcement in Georgia in the case against him in Atlanta stemming back to the fallout from the 2020 election.
