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Donald Trump at an event of conservative blacks in the USA

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Former US President Donald Trump has once again caused a stir with a questionable comparison.

The man who is hoping to replace Joe Biden as president this year compared his legal problems on Friday to the prejudice that the American legal system has against black people.

"I was impeached for nothing, for something that is nothing," Trump said at an event for black conservatives in South Carolina ahead of the Republican presidential candidate's election.

"And a lot of people said that's why black people like me, because they've been hurt and discriminated against so much, and they actually looked at me like I was being discriminated against.

It was pretty amazing, but maybe, maybe there's something to it." The 77-year-old repeatedly describes the various accusations and accusations against him as a political witch hunt.

Just a few days ago, Trump was ordered to pay $464 million for decades of false statements in business reports at the Trump Organization.

In South Carolina, Trump stated, among other things, that he knew a lot of black people, after all, his properties were built by black construction workers.

Trump has been trying to increase his popularity among the black population in the USA for some time.

In the past, the ex-president has repeatedly attracted attention for his racist behavior.

And since his early days as a New York real estate developer, Trump has faced allegations of racist business practices.

In 1989, he took out full-page newspaper ads calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty in New York state when five black and Latino teenagers were scheduled to stand trial for beating and raping a white woman in Central Park.

The five men were eventually acquitted in 2002 after another man admitted to the crime.

As president, Trump spoke, among other things, about "shithole countries" in Africa and doubted that his predecessor Barack Obama was born in the USA.

Just a few days ago, Trump compared himself to Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who died in Russian captivity.

“It’s terrible,” he said of Navalny’s death.

"But it also happens in our country." He was charged in four cases, said Trump.

"And that only because I went into politics."

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