Democrats Hit a New Low, Accuse Trump of Pushing Black Americans Into Slave Labor [WATCH]

Two House Democrats, including vocal Trump critic Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), claimed during a live stream on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s policies are designed to push Black Americans into jobs resembling those from the era of slavery.

BREAKING: Rep. Jasmine Crockett says President Trump is “trying to make us go back to the fields.” pic.twitter.com/3cIEgAT3EC

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During the “State of the People” live stream, a counter to Trump’s address to Congress, Crockett suggested that the president’s focus on immigration and job policies was an attempt to pit Black Americans against immigrants while steering them toward agricultural labor.

“They have decided to go after immigrants and things like that and say, ‘oh they takin your black jobs, they taking your black jobs, not really,” Crockett said to Rev. Franklin Haynes.

“They are obviously jobs they want us to go back to, such as working the fields, those immigrants that come into our country work the fields, something that we ain’t done in a long time and clearly he is trying to make us go back to the fields.”

Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) echoed her claims, suggesting Trump’s education policies were also designed to push Black Americans into lower-wage labor.

“It’s a recipe to make education unavailable to Black people,” Johnson said of Trump’s education plans.

“It puts us back to when America was ‘great’ and we were picking cotton and doing the productivity that they’re putting my Latino brothers and sisters who migrate here to do that work because we are not suited intellectually to do it anymore.”

Johnson further warned about the direction of the country under Trump’s leadership, saying, “But they would have us back, confined to doing that kind of work. We gotta watch out for where we are headed. It’s the people that will save our democracy that will stop this movement toward the past that Trump has us hurtling towards.”

DERANGED: Democrats Jasmine Crockett and Hank Johnson suggest Trump and Republicans want to bring back slavery:

CROCKETT: “Something that we ain’t done in a long time — clearly, he is trying to make us go back to the fields.”

JOHNSON: “It puts us back, to when America was… pic.twitter.com/4iUK64mlkZ

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The comments from Crockett and Johnson come as Trump continues to gain significant support among Black and Hispanic voters.

Despite repeated Democratic warnings about his policies, Trump has made historic strides in securing minority votes.

Crockett’s remarks also follow recent controversies surrounding her criticism of Trump, including her claim that he is an “enemy to the United States” and a “dictator.”

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The Democrats’ statements also come just months after Trump’s unexpected gains among Black voters in the November election.

According to a Fox News Voter Analysis, Trump’s support among traditionally Democratic voter groups grew significantly.

He increased his share of Hispanic votes by 6 percentage points (41%), Black voters by 7 percentage points (15%), and young voters by 10 percentage points (46%) compared to 2020.

These shifts were particularly pronounced among Black men (+12 points), Hispanic men (+8 points), and men under 30 (+14 points).

Trump’s strength with Black voters was especially evident in Anson County, North Carolina, where he won for the first time since the 1970s and only the second time in more than 100 years.

Trump secured 50.9% of the vote against then-Vice President Kamala Harris’s 48.2% in a county where Black residents make up 47% of the population.

As Trump solidifies his support among minority voters, comments like those from Crockett and Johnson highlight growing Democratic concerns over his appeal.

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