The most recent Biden campaign ad stars former First Lady Michelle Obama attacking President Trump by calling him a “racist” and defending Black Lives Matter all while urging Americans to vote for Joe Biden. The BLM organization is connected to hundreds of protests across the United States many of which turned violent causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages to communities. The former First Lady claimed that BLM is an “overwhelmingly peaceful movement for racial solidarity.”
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According to The Daily Wire:
“But right now, the president and his allies are trying to tap into that frustration and distract from his breathtaking failures by giving folks someone to blame other than them,” Mrs. Obama said in the video. “They’re stoking fears about Black and Brown Americans, lying about how minorities will destroy the suburbs, whipping up violence and intimidation — and they’re pinning it all on what’s been an overwhelmingly peaceful movement for racial solidarity.”
“It’s true, research backs it up; only a tiny fraction of demonstrations have had any violence at all,” claimed the former First Lady. “So what the president is doing is, once again, patently false. It’s morally wrong, and yes, it is racist.”
“But that doesn’t mean it won’t work,” Mrs. Obama continued. “Because this is a difficult time, a confusing time, and when people hear these lies and these crazy conspiracies repeated over, and over, and over again, they don’t know what to think. With everything going on in their lives, they don’t have time to fact-check falsehoods being spread throughout the Internet, and even reasonable people might get scared.”
“And one thing this president is really good at,” she claimed, “is using fear and confusion and spreading lies to win.”
In the video, she says “research backs it up” appearing to reference the Princeton study that “found” BLM protests have been peaceful. It’s also important to note that the same study concluded that Liberal protestors became violent 570 times in over 220 different locations.
Princeton University group studies 3 months of Black Lives Matter protests. Intent is to show they are 'overwhelmingly peaceful.' But report reveals nearly 570 violent demonstrations–riots–in nearly 220 locations spread all across country. https://t.co/it60GBbTZT pic.twitter.com/Ph8iECyHIf
— Byron York (@ByronYork) September 5, 2020