LEONARD GREENE: Trump remains delusional about Black voters

Among the lies that Donald Trump continues to promulgate in his treasonous attempt to fool the public and upend democracy is the notion that Democrats stole even Black votes when he was unseated in 2020.

As if Black people not named Kanye West were lining up at the polls waiting to check the box next to his name.

Trump wrongly surmises that because Biden earned more Black votes in 2020 in some places than Barack Obama, the first Black president, did during his presidential campaigns, then the African American vote must have been rigged, too.

“Either there’s a lot of black voters in America who identify more with Joe Biden than Barack Obama, or Democrats are stealing black votes,” Trump wrote in his latest stole-the-election screed. “And we all know the answer to that.”

But what Trump fails to grasp — or fails to acknowledge — is that all the Black voters who turned out, even more in some places than when Obama ran both times, weren’t just voting for Biden

They were voting against Trump.

Trump’s deranged assessment of Black voters and turnout was part of a 12-page manifesto he wrote in response to a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot on Capitol Hill.

In it, Trump rehashes some of the same tired conspiracy theories about “smoke and mirrors” with a logic that fits worse than Herschel Walker’s oversized suit did during his Georgia Senate debate Friday night.

Even before Trump stooped to name calling — “Sleepy Joe” for President Biden — he started off with a capital letter barrage best suited for an angry text message.

“THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2020 WAS RIGGED AND STOLEN!”

Again he accuses lawmakers of burying reports of election fraud that he says led to Biden’s victory, and said the committee’s real goal is to keep him on the sidelines.

“This is merely an attempt to stop a man that is leading in every poll, against both Republicans and Democrats by wide margins, from running again for the Presidency,” Trump writes.

Trump goes on to whine about everything from campaign contributions from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to collusion with Russia.

But his wackiest claim might have been his assessment of Black voters.

Trump has always been delusional when it comes to Black voters. For years he questioned Obama’s citizenship, then had the nerve to try to lure away his voters.

“Look at how much African-American communities are suffering from Democratic control,” Trump said at a campaign rally in 2016. “To those I say the following: What do you have to lose by trying something new like Trump? What do you have to lose?”

That was almost as bad as his quote four years later, in the wake of racial upheaval over the police brutality death of George Floyd.

“I say very modestly, I have done more for the African American community than any president since Abraham Lincoln, our first Republican president,” Trump said in 2020.

OK. You can stop laughing now.

Yes, Biden outperformed Obama among Black voters in some districts, but you don’t see Obama out there crying about his legacy.

He knows that the Black population grew between 2008 and 2020, increasing Biden’s pool of African-American voters.

He also knows that as important as it was for Black people to put Obama in the White House, it was even more important to get Trump out.