50 Cent Says Black Men ‘Identifying’ with Trump Over Legal Woes: ‘They’ve Got RICO Charges’ Too

Rapper and entrepreneur 50 Cent said during a visit to the Capitol that Black men are “identifying” more with former President Donald Trump than President Joe Biden amid the former’s legal troubles.

50 Cent, real name Curtis Jackson, spoke briefly with CBS News congressional correspondent Nikole Killion during a Wednesday visit to the Capitol about the upcoming election. The rapper visited the Capitol with lawyer Ben Crump and he chatted with a number of lawmakers, both Republican and Democrat.

Jackson said the purpose of his visit was to advocate for Black entrepreneurs and Black-owned businesses. He owns a number of businesses himself, including Sire Spirits and G-Unit Film & Television.

Jackson told Killion he hasn’t made a decision in which candidate he’ll be supporting in November. Asked about the “significance of African American men in this election,” the rapper said he sees Black voters “identifying” more with the former president.

“I see them identifying with Trump,” Jackson said.

“Why do you say that?” the reporter asked.

“Because they got RICO charges [too],” the rapper replied, appearing to reference Trump’s election racketeering case in Fulton County, Georgia. That case was temporarily put on ice as an appeals court weighs whether or not to disqualify Fulton Country District Attorny Fani Willis. Trump is appealing a judge’s decision to keep Willis on the case after she was accused of having an improper relationship with another prosecutor in her office.

Jackson’s comments also follow Trump being convicted on more than 30 felony counts in his hush money trial in Manhattan.

While Jackson did not offer an endorsement to Trump on Wednesday, he did previously predict the former president would end up back in the White House.

“The world’s almost over so what are we worried about. Who ever made this is [fucked] up. I think Trumps gonna be president again, but I’m not gonna say that,” the rapper wrote in a March post to X, formerly Twitter, in response to a AI-doctored video of Trump using racial slurs.

In 2020, Jackson walked back what appeared to be a light endorsement of Trump (over taxes), saying he “never liked him.”

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