As protests erupted around the United States in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, Politico published an excerpt from a planned book by veteran Wall Street Journal reporter Mike Bender, which details former President Donald Trump’s fury toward his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

Trump handled the protesters horribly. Instead, he was more akin to an arsonist who set a fire and then blamed everyone who was injured.

According to the book, Trump believed that supporting the criminal justice reform that Kushner had persuaded him to embrace made him look weak.

It wasn’t about doing the right thing; it was all about winning the Black vote.

“Trump had staked nearly his entire campaign in 2016 around a law-and-order image, and now groaned that the criminal justice reform that Kushner had persuaded him to support made him look weak and—even worse—hadn’t earned him any goodwill among Black voters,” the book states.

“I’ve done all this stuff for the Blacks—it’s always Jared telling me to do this,” Trump said to one confidante on Father’s Day. “And they all f—— hate me, and none of them are going to vote for me.”

“A month after the murder of Floyd, Trump was dumping on his son-in-law, and he was also abandoning the chance to improve his relationship with Black leaders and Black voters during a particularly tumultuous moment in U.S. race relations and the presidential campaign,” the excerpt reads. “The story of this month, from the murder of Floyd to Trump’s assertion that his outreach to Black voters wasn’t working, is one of missed opportunities and bungled messaging, even in the eyes of some of Trump’s closest advisers, who described their firsthand accounts with me during the past year.”

“Trump had long struggled with addressing the nation’s racial issues, and his senior staff hadn’t included a single Black staffer since he’d fired Omarosa Manigault Newman—a former contestant on his reality television show—at the end of 2017,” the excerpt continues. “In August 2018, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway had been asked on NBC’s Meet the Press to name the top Black official in the Trump White House and could only come up with his first name: Ja’Ron.”

Conservatives sometimes cite to the criminal justice reform law when attempting to portray Trump as non-racist, yet this was done to buy the Black vote. From refusing to rent to Black people to calling Black athletes who take a knee during the national anthem in a gesture of silent protest against racism sons of a bitches, Trump has always been a bigot.

You can read the full excerpt here.