Donald Trump ran the most racially incendiary presidential campaign in modern times. So, it’s odd enough that he would transparently misrepresent his performance among black voters: he took 8 percent of the black vote in 2016 to Hillary Clinton’s 88 percent. But it’s shocking that he would thank blacks, who were denied the right to vote for much of American history, for choosing to stay home and not exercise that right. It is incriminating because the Trump campaign—whether in conjunction with Russian nationals or independently, we do not yet know—admitted to attempting to suppress the black vote. Said one senior Trump campaign official to Bloomberg News shortly before the election, “We have three major voter suppression operations under way,” identifying African Americans as one of its targets.