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White GOP Congressman Slammed For Trotting Out Black Trumper During Cohen Hearing

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Former Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen Testifies Before House Oversight Committee

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GOP Congressman Mark Meadows went to the “I have Black friends” trope during the Hosue Oversight Committee hearing with Michael Cohen. Meadows trotted out a Black employee of President Donald Trump in a bid to prove the former business mogul isn’t racist to which Rep. Rashida Tlaib called out as just that, causing Meadows to have a fit.

Raw Story writes:

“Just because someone has a person of color, a black person, working for them does not mean they aren’t racist and…the fact someone would actually use a prop, a black woman in this chamber, in this committee, is alone racist in itself,” Tlaib said during her opening remarks.

Meadows immediately began trying to interrupt the Palestinian-American congresswoman and later brought up that he has nieces and nephews who are “people of color.”

The outlet noted that Rep. Meadows has a history of saying questionably racist remarks, including the tired birther argument regarding President Barack Obama.

Twitter threw some jabs towards Meadows’ direction after he demanded Tlaib’s comments be struck from the record although chairman Rep. Elijah Cummings allowed her to continue despite frequent interruptions.

We’ve collected some of the reactions below.

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Token Black Republican Slams Donald Trump In Concession Speech

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Rep. Mia Love...

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Incumbent congresswoman and GOP member Rep. Mia Love of Utah was locked in a tight race against Democrat hopeful Ben McAdams that has been boiling over since Election Day earlier this month. In her concession speech, Congresswoman Love slammed her fellow Republican, President Donald Trump, this after he took a jab at her for not embracing him and thus suggesting that’s why she lost her race.

CNN reports:

Love conceded to Democrat Ben McAdams in their Utah congressional race, giving Democrats another pickup in the House of Representatives and bringing the party’s net seat gain to 38. Love, who has represented the district since 2015, had been locked in a close race with McAdams, the mayor of Salt Lake County, since Election Day nearly three weeks ago.

Love made the comments about Trump in response to the President’s post-Election Day news conference, in which he declared that Love had lost the race despite votes still being counted and attacked the congresswoman for not embracing him as a campaigner.

“Mia Love gave me no love and she lost,” Trump said. “Too bad. Sorry about that, Mia.”

“The President’s behavior towards me made me wonder: What did he have to gain by saying such a thing about a fellow Republican,” Love said during her speech in Salt Lake City. “It was not really about asking him to do more, was it? Or was it something else? Well Mr. President, we’ll have to chat about that.”

She continued, “However, this gave me a clear vision of his world as it is. No real relationships, just convenient transactions. That is an insufficient way to implement sincere service and policy.”

Interesting.

Congresswoman Love went on to say that the Republican Party will continue to lose out politically in attracting Black and minority voters stating that it appears that the rival Democratic Party does a better job of inviting discourse among communities of color.

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Finesse Game Strong: Fake GOP Black Twitter User Scams MAGA Nuts Out Of $150K

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Karen AKA @chckpeas

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A Black woman on Twitter pretended to be a member of the Republican Party and proudly touted a MAGA hat online to show her solidarity with other Black folks walking away from the Democratic Party. It has since come out that the whole post was nothing but a troll scam, with the woman collecting $150,000 via GoFundMe before the page was shut down.

The Daily Dot writes:

A Chicago-based student says the idea of supporting President Donald Trump makes her “skin crawl.” But that isn’t stopping her from posing as a Trump supporter, “Make America Great Again” bucket hat and all, in a ploy to rack up sympathy—and more importantly, donations—from actual conservatives.

The 19-year-old, who identified herself to the Daily Dot as Karen, is effectively leading a double life on her own Twitter timeline. She retweets indiscriminately, sometimes sharing the tweets of outraged pro-“MAGA” users and sometimes sharing the tweets of people calling her “ugly” or the N-word because they believe she turned her back on other Black Americans.

It’s all in the name of trolling, and it all started when she tweeted a selfie last week showing herself wearing the “MAGA” hat.

“I will not hide any longer,, the left has made us feel as if us black republicans should hide!! but not anymore!! #BlacksForTrump #WalkAway #maga,” Karen wrote on Oct. 27.

The outlet adds that Karen was able to fleece $150,000 from the bleeding heart conservatives thirsty to have a Negro support their cause, perhaps in a bid to replace Kanye West leaving the idea of MAGA on the back burner for now.

The page has since been taken down and Karen seems to be fine with her finesse game as evidenced by her active and public Twitter page.

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