1ST WOMAN FREED BY FIRST STEP ACT THANKS DONALD TRUMP AT BLACK HISTORY MONTH RECEPTION

February 22, 2019 in News by RBN Staff

 

Source: DavidHarrisJr.com

Our own David Harris Jr. was on location in the White House on Thursday for President Trump’s Black History Month commemoration and celebration with the president and was an eyewitness to the special people that were singled out during his remarks. One person who had a particularly touching reason to celebrate was Catherine Toney, who is the first person to be set free as a result of the First STEP Act, a measure in which David also had a hand to help get it implemented.

More from Breitbart:

First Woman Freed by Criminal Justice Reform Thanks Donald Trump at Black History Month Reception

 

The first woman freed as the result of Donald Trump’s criminal reform bill joined him at the White House on Thursday during a reception for Black History Month.

Catherine Toney, joined by her daughter and granddaughter, spoke to the group, thanking the president for signing the criminal justice reform bill that helped her win her freedom.

“If it wasn’t for them, I wouldn’t be standing up here today,” she said, noting that she was incarcerated for sixteen years before she was freed.

Trump was greeted with cheers as he took the podium at the reception as several attendees wearing Make America Great Again campaign hats chanted “Trump! Trump! Trump!”

The president praised African-Americans who championed civil rights and freedom in the United States.

“Today we thank God for all the blessings that the African-American community continues to give our nation and we pledge our resolve to expand opportunity for Americans of every race, color, and creed,” he said.

Trump noted that heightened sentencing rules disproportionally affected the African-American community, which was why he signed the First STEP Act.

“Nobody thought we could get this done, we worked with conservatives and liberals, and those in the middle, we worked with a lot of people and we got this done,” Trump said.

He credited his son-in-law Jared Kushner for working to get the bill passed.

During the reception, one civil rights activist took the podium to thank Trump for building a wall.

“You know Nehemiah was told by God to build a wall and that’s what you’re doing. Amen,” Civil rights activist Clarence Henderson of the Fredrick Douglass Foundation said during the president’s remarks at the reception.

Civil rights leader Bob Woodson also thanked the president for shaking up the establishment.

“I just want to thank God and President Trump for turning over the tables in the temples and attacking the status quo that is hostile to the interests of poor people,” Woodson said, noting that all the poor needed was the opportunity to achieve greatness.

Source: Breitbart News

I think this is so amazing! The other thing I find amazing, but in the opposite direction, is how anybody who saw this celebration could still insist that President Trump is the worst racist ever! There are many purely statistical facts that could be presented that prove otherwise, but I suppose it’s too much to ask the “progressives” to open their eyes and their ears and believe what is standing right in front of them.