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Donald Trump’s Black-Outreach Trainwreck Is Getting Worse by the Day

‘STUPID WASTE OF TIME’

A week of supposed overtures to black communities has been a disaster. That is, if the intention has been to genuinely woo black voters.

Asawin Suebsaeng
Asawin Suebsaeng 

Senior Political Reporter

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Donald Trump really, really wants his predominantly white fanbase to know how much he cares about vanquishing black-on-black crime in America—by implementing a draconian policy that is as ineffective as it is reviled by black communities.

On Wednesday, Trump stopped by the New Spirit Revival Center (an African-American church in Cleveland...

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Asawin Suebsaeng

Asawin Suebsaeng

Senior Political Reporter

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