Trump Tells Black Conservatives His Criminal Charges Are ‘Why the Black People Like Me’ 

Former President Donald Trump told a group of Black conservatives that “a lot of people” have said the 91 criminal counts against him have made him more appealing to Black people.

Speaking at the Black Conservative Federation Honors Gala in Columbia, South Carolina on Friday night, Trump all but boasted about being indicted in four jurisdictions.

“And then I got indicted a second time and then a third time and a fourth time!” he told the crowd. “And a lot of people said that that’s why the Black people like me, because they have been hurt so badly and discriminated against. And they actually viewed me as– I’m being discriminated against. It’s been pretty amazing.”

The former president is under indictment: in Manhattan on state charges of falsifying business records; in federal court in Florida on charges of willfully retaining classified documents and obstructing their retrieval; in federal court in Washington, D.C. for trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election; in Fulton County, Georgia on charges of violating the state’s RICO statute by attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the state.

He has pleaded not guilty to all 91 counts across the four indictments.

Last week, Trump was hit with a $354 million civil judgment for defrauding banks and insurance companies. He likened the judgment to the plight of Russian opposition leader Alexi Navalny, who died last week in a prison in the Arctic Circle.

“It is a form of Navalny,” he told Fox News on Tuesday. “It is a form of communism or fascism.”

Trump is the runaway favorite to win the Republican presidential nomination.