Senior Trump Advisor Retweets Man Shouting N-Word At Protesters While Brandishing His Chainsaw [VIDEO]

Politico reports:

President Donald Trump and his allies for years have amplified racist messages on Twitter while simultaneously reaching out to black and Hispanic voters, a dissonant balancing act that’s now rocking the GOP amid nationwide racial-justice protests.

The two competing forces collided Saturday on the Twitter feed of Trump campaign senior adviser Mercedes Schlapp, when she boosted a tweet that lauded a man in Texas in a viral video as he yelled the n-word and wielded a chainsaw to chase away anti-racism demonstrators.

Schlapp‘s retweet highlighted how the Trump campaign operates in contradictory worlds of its own making. On one hand, Schlapp favorably promoted a man spewing anti-black racism and on the other she urged black people to vote for Trump just three days prior in an online campaign discussion on race.

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Chainsaw-wielding racist gets boosted by a top Trump aide, Mercedes Schlapp, as race protests sweep the nation https://t.co/IFbKve7f88 via @politico

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