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Donald Trump draws flak for retweeting video of Glenn Beck and Candace Owens flaying George Floyd's criminal past

This comes soon after the POTUS uttered kind words about the black American who was killed in police brutality in May
PUBLISHED JUN 6, 2020
Candace Owens and President Donald Trump (Getty Images)
Candace Owens and President Donald Trump (Getty Images)

Blexit founder Candace Owens has made the headlines for her strong take on the George Floyd killing case yet again. While she opposed the killing of the 46-year-old black American by the police in Minneapolis on May 25, she also refused to give a clean chit to Floyd and questioned his past.

The 31-year-old pro-Trump author-activist recently met Vice President Mike Pence at the White House where the latter met prominent African-Americans to discuss ways to take America forward from the endless protests that have gripped the country in the wake of Floyd’s brutal death. Just a day before the meeting, Owens was seen expressing her opinion over the tragedy in which she questioned Floyd’s history and called him a “horrible human being” even while seeking justice for his family. 

Owens was speaking with conservative political commentator and radio host Glenn Beck earlier this week and the duo agreed over a negative take on Floyd’s character. Beck tweeted a video of their conversation and wrote above it: “I don't care WHAT George Floyd did. The officer should have never treated him like that and killed him! But we still must ask: Is he a HERO? BLEXIT founder @RealCandaceO gave her thoughts: ‘The fact that he has been held up as a martyr sickens me’.”

Beck criticized the way Floyd was killed by the police but said the latter was no clean guy. He said Floyd had a “very long criminal record” and bringing in the comparison of the legendary Rosa Parks, asked whether Floyd’s past identity is the “symbol of black America today”. Owens agreed that it is. She spoke in detail about Floyd’s past life and the incident when he held a gun against the abdomen of a pregnant woman in 2007. She expressed her disgust over the fact that Floyd, who has served prison sentence in the past, was being held up as a hero. She said she could not even think the trauma that Floyd caused to the pregnant woman.

Conservative talk radio host Glenn Beck (Getty Images)

 

Trump retweeted the video and it happened the same day he said Floyd was “looking down” and rejoicing the US’ unexpected economic turnaround in the times of the pandemic. One user blasted the president for retweeting Beck's video soon after saying the kind words about Floyd, saying: "After saying such wonderful things about George Floyd, Donald Trump retweeted this from Glenn Beck. Just shows how disingenuous Trump's words were."

Another user from New York slammed Trump and Owens replying to the video: “It sickens me that the president of the USA would retweet something so clearly offensive to many people right in the middle of nationwide unrest about police brutality following the murder of George Floyd. Owens is a better-spoken version of Trump but both are equally toxic!”

“And yet Mr Trump is shocked that African American people don’t like him very much," read one tweet while another post said, “Trump actually retweeted this, this is his racism just screaming at you.”

In her viral social media video recorded on June 3, founder Owens said: “There was so much pressure for me to go with the popular opinion about who George Floyd was. We are being sold a lot of lies at the detriment to the black community, at the detriment to the white community and at the detriment to America as a whole.” The video, titled ‘Confession: I DO NOT support George Floyd and I refuse to see him as a martyr’, also saw her saying: “I want to come out and say that I do not support George Floyd and the media's depiction of him as a martyr for black America.”

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