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Leonard Greene: Donald Trump says he’s a victim of ‘reverse racism’ — but there is no such thing

Even if you bought for a minute that Black prosecutors in New York are targeting former President Donald Trump because he is white, his characterization of their motivation is way off base.

“I’m under investigation,” Trump said during a Florida rally hours after his indictment in New York last week on charges that he made hush money payments to a porn star to silence her before the 2016 election about their alleged tryst.

“This time it’s a civil investigation by another racist in reverse who also campaigned on, ‘I will get Trump, I will get him.’ This was her campaign. Her name is Letitia James, and she proclaimed while campaigning quote: ‘I look forward to going into the Office of the Attorney General every single day suing him and then going home,’ before she knew me.”

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