Yeah, it’s been… interesting to see how Trump supporters have gone from insisting Trump wasn’t racist in his early political days (when he was less overtly racist) to now, where they either say nothing or openly admire him for it. Gosh, it’s like their denial of his racism was disingenuous all along, just like it seemed…
I understand the NDA they signed for the show has now expired, and that’s why it’s coming out now… I’m hoping that means the tapes will finally come out, too. I know it won’t sway Trump supporters, for whom it will be a plus, but it’s just a sharp enough news story to penetrate the “not paying attention” voter that makes up Trump’s lead in polls currently. (Somehow that he’s a literal fascist promising to build more concentration camps than the Nazis isn’t getting through.)
It was interesting that when the story first came up, Trump’s defense was that the producer (supposedly) told him that there was no footage of Trump saying the n-word. Not that he hadn’t said it on the show, not that he had never said it, but that he hadn’t been captured on video saying it. Very much a non-denial denial.
Yeah, I was reading that Trump has a big lead in the polls with voters who don’t usually vote and who pay no attention to politics. That strikes me as a very wobbly lead that could be easily overturned by a “sexy” news story the media can’t ignore that actually penetrates through to them. Plus, it seems like a lot of Trump support (outside his MAGA core) relies on recency bias - people have had the luxury to not pay attention to Trump in the last couple years and have forgotten how terrible even they thought he was. A story like this could provide a needed reminder.
