Newsmax Host Likens Donald Trump To Emmett Till
In what may be the worst example of MAGA’s “oppressed white people” BS yet, Newsmax host Greg Kelly suggested that fat cat Donald Trump, convicted of 34 felonies for criminally doctoring business records in order to hide from voters his affair with a porn star, is as big a victim as Emmett Till.
Till was “kidnapped, beaten, shot in the head, had a large metal fan tied to his neck with barbed wire, and was thrown into the Tallahatchie River,” as per the FBI. The two white men charged with his murder later confessed but were acquitted by an all-white jury after a quick trial.
But in the never-ending right-wing effort to paint Trump as the world’s biggest victim – who somehow masterfully ran the country anyway – Kelly suggested Trump is a modern-day Till.
First, Kelly argued that those who think Trump’s 34 felony convictions are legit are “hiding! Hiding behind this verdict.” There is no jury of Trump’s peers because he has no peers, Kelly claimed. “A jury did it,” he mocked. “I've heard that excuse before.”
Then Kelly segued right into Till: