Got me on what?
Herr Drumpf's entire candidacy was launched on a race baiting platform when he said Mexicans were rapists in the speech that kicked off his campaign. Nor did he ever back off that statement when asked to clarify he just doubled down.
I'm sure I could cite a laundry list for you but there's just so much. Like when he attacked a federal judge who was ruling on his case for being of Mexican heritage even though he was born and raised in Indiana.
Or who could forget slamming immigrants from Haiti and Africa as coming from "shithole countries" while calling for more immigrants from places like Norway. Was that race baiting or just plain 'ole prejudice since he said it to his Senate subordinates? Or when he said immigrants from Haiti all had AIDS? Or saying there were "very fine people" on the side of the nazis marching in Charlottesville, was that not "race baiting"?
These are just off the top of my head, but I'm sure there's plenty more if I bothered to think about it.
Care to cite when Obama race baited? Actually, I'll answer your question, as there are only two incidents that I've ever heard used to accuse him of "race baiting". The first was early in his term when he defended his friend and colleague black Harvard professor Henry Gates who was arrested by police for trying to get into his own house. He clearly didn't mean to "race bait", as he invited the arresting officer to the White House for a beer so they could resolve the acrimony. The other is when he mentioned that if he had a son, he'd look like Trayvon Martin. Given how highly polarized that court case was, perhaps he shouldn't have inflamed the situation with that comment. But can you really honestly accuse him of race baiting?
Now look at the litany of times Trump has intentionally used inflammatory race baiting rhetoric as a campaign tactic to appeal to his base. It's really no contest Culburn. I just cite the irony of you accusing Obama of race baiting given the man you exalt.
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