Trump Gives Stunning Reason To Dump Education Dept — Then Goes Off On Side-Rant About Black Voters

Former President Donald Trump gave a stunning reason for shutting down the Department of Education — which sent him off on a side-rant about Black voters to whom he gave a similar pitch years ago.

Trump has been hitting the campaign trail in the final weeks of his campaign against Vice President Kamala Harris — and on the eve of the VP debate — at rallies where his speeches have become increasingly provocative. Over the weekend, he called for police to re-enact The Purge and mocked Harris by calling her “mentally impaired.”

But he also veered off on the tangents that he has described as “genius” and “not rambling.”

At a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, Sunday, Trump interrupted his error-riddled chunk about “school choice” to drop less-than-ironclad logic for shutting down the Education Dept. — which reminded him of his advice to Black voters, which then led to another rant about Hispanic voters:

School choice is a very big deal. A lot of people don’t know that, but it’s a big deal. It’ll be great. You know, I’m going to take the Department of Education closed in Washington. Let the states run their own education.

Very important because we spend more money per pupil than any other nation in the world by far, and yet we’re ranked at the bottom of every list.

So you know the expression. “What the hell do you have to lose, right?”.

I did that with our great– because they’ve been so supportive. I’ve gone up like a rocket ship– are great, but they’re being hurt very badly by the people pouring into our country, our African American population.

I said, “Well, your last on crime, you’re being devastated with inflation more than anybody else. You have the smallest percentage of homeownership.”.

And I went through a list of 12 things. This was a long time ago, 2015, when I was running even before.

And I was with a group and I wasn’t doing particularly well with them. And I’m going through this whole list of things. I mean, you’re last in ownership, your last in– oh– ha– cash and having money in the bank, last and all these different categories.

And I said, “Vote for me. What the hell do you have to lose?”.

Remember that? “What the hell do you have to lose?”.

And my people didn’t like it. They said backstage “Oh sir, that was not nice.”.

I said, it is. Anyway, I didn’t know. I figured maybe I shouldn’t have said it.

The following day, I went up 12 points. Right? 12 points. And today we’re the highest we’ve ever been with the African American population.

We did things that were really incredible for them and with them. Criminal justice reform. Right. Took care of the historically Black colleges and universities. I got them long term financing. They were great. We did a lot. And we’re doing great with the Black population, Hispanic population.

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