Guess what Trump actually said:

[applegrove]

Donald Trump has joined the campaign to free A$AP Rocky from a Swedish jail

 Trump said. “I personally don’t know A$AP Rocky, but I can tell you that he has tremendous support from the African American community in this country, and when I say African American, I think I can really say from everybody in the country, because we’re all one.” 

By Zeeshan Aleem at Vox

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2019/7/20/20702082/asap-rocky-free-sweden-jail-stockholm-donald-trump-kanye-kim-kardashian-west-stefan-lofven

"SNIP.....


President Donald Trump tweeted on Saturday that he had spoken on the phone with Sweden’s Prime Minister Stefan Löfven about a matter of great personal import: the fate of American rapper A$AP Rocky, who is currently being held in a Swedish jail.

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The president’s interest also seems to be a vulgar political calculation intended to win over black voters. In a week in which he sent racist tweets and said nothing while an audience at a rally responded to a xenophobic rant by shouting, “Send her back,” Trump signaled he seems to see the A$AP Rocky case as a means by which he can gain the approval of the black community (and be seen as a unifier) in comments he made at the White House Friday.

“Many, many members of the African American community have called me, friends of mine, and said, ‘Can you help?’” Trump said. “I personally don’t know A$AP Rocky, but I can tell you that he has tremendous support from the African American community in this country, and when I say African American, I think I can really say from everybody in the country, because we’re all one.”


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[Rhiannon12866]

1. This was on tonight's Daily Show, Contains footage of Trump:

A$AP Rocky Arrested in Sweden After a Street Altercation

A$AP Rocky is detained in Sweden following alleged involvement in a suspected assault, prompting celebrity friends to rally for his release, and Kim Kardashian and Kanye West to lobby Donald Trump directly about the ordeal.

[uponit7771]

3. +1,

[applegrove]

7. That is where i saw it first but we can't get Daily Show clips in canada so i looked

for an article. Thanks.

[lunatica]

2. Trump is in campaign mode

so he’s winning the black vote. He thinks they’re as stupid as his MAGATs and they’ll forget all his racism now.

[ancianita]

4. A regular one-man State Dept. He chats up a rich ball player, but black people in general

see him the way Elijah Cummings and The Squad do.

Statements throughout his life have been reflected in his behavior—from public acts to private preferences. Public: the ads called for the execution of the Central Park Five.
Private: when he came to his Atlantic City casino, bosses would order all the black people off the floor

[BlueMississippi]

5. I don't think African Americans will be swayed

except Killer Mike and Kanye West of course.

[SouthernProgressive]

9. Turner also likes to keep an open mind. NT

[mnmoderatedem]

6. this is almost as bad

as when he claimed initially that the reason he fired Comey was because of the way he treated Hilary Clinton.

Even MAGAts didn't believe that.

[SouthernProgressive]

8. The investigation into the man who "brawled" with A$AP Rocky was just dropped.

Rocky is still in jail and the other person has been cleared in any criminal wrongdoing.

And, while Trump has offered to personally vouch for the 30-year-old rapper's bail, the bail system does not exist in Sweden.

As Dennis Martinsson, a legal expert in Sweden, told CNN: "If you know the Swedish legal system you know that there is no bail system."

"Actually, the Swedish constitution prevents any minister, even the Prime Minister, getting involved, or even saying something about an individual case," he added.

CNN

The decision will be made with respect to Rocky by Thursday afternoon.

Link to tweet