Why Trump’s Road to the White House Runs Through His Four Black Athlete Friends
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
What do Mike Tyson, Lawrence Taylor, Darryl Strawberry and Herschel Walker have in common? They were Donald Trump's New York superstar allies in the 1980s — and they remain his time-warped avatars for Black American voters in 2024. Semafor political reporter Kadia Goba transports us from selling handbags at Trump Tower to receiving calls from these aging MAGA all-stars on a nostalgic, notorious and downright criminal journey toward interviewing Trump himself at Mar-a-Lago.
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| 0:32.6 | Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. |
| 0:34.7 | I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. |
| 0:38.9 | If I never struck Donald Trump and didn't know he was white, I would think that he was blacked the way they were treating them in the papers and in the press. |
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| 1:10.9 | So I believe personally that the single worst place to process the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump is the platform formerly known as Twitter, which is obviously exactly |
| 1:17.3 | where I was on Saturday night, watching people grandstand and argue and generally use a |
| 1:22.6 | horrifying shooting in Pennsylvania to spread conspiracies and rank propaganda. |
| 1:28.1 | But there is one viral story that I came across from Forbes.com on Saturday that I want to |
| 1:33.6 | tell you about here in particular, because it provoked what I can only describe as a refreshingly |
| 1:39.0 | and even inspirationally bipartisan level of disgust. |
| 1:52.5 | The headline, quote, will surviving gunfire be Donald Trump's next appeal to black voters? |
| 1:54.0 | Question mark. |
| 2:00.0 | Forbes had published this story within hours of the shooting, and they then took it down the very next day after managing to insult |
| 2:02.2 | both leftists and Maga Republicans for the obvious reasons. But the underlying premise here |
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