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A. No, it is not.

B. Racial views of Donald Trump - Wikipedia

 

Donald Trump’s long history of racism, from the 1970s to 2018

 

B. Manigault-Newman has said Trump used the word. (Not sure she's credible because she claimed the opposite in her book, but the notion that nobody has accused him of using the word is false.) But if you don't want to believe her, there are several more people who have accused your boy of racism long before he started running for president.

Former employees of Donald Trump have also accused the real estate mogul of racism. John R. O’Donnell, a former president of Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino, wrote in his 1991 book Trumped! that Trump frequently used racial slurs:

A book written by one of Donald Trump’s former casino executives accuses Trump of calling his biggest gamblers “slobs,” of making racial slurs against black people and of being largely ignorant about the casino business.

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O’Donnell described a dinner conversation with Trump in which, he writes, they discussed Trump Plaza’s financial executive, who was black. He quoted Trump as saying he never liked the man and believed he was not doing a good job. Trump’s conversation is recounted:

“And isn’t it funny. I’ve got black accountants at Trump Castle and Trump Plaza. Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. . . . I think the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.”



C. His track record includes the Central Park Five claims, from which he has never backed down despite the exoneration of the defendants. It includes referring to black people as "low IQ" at far higher rates than anybody else.

 

A. You're really being a coward. You want it both ways. You're afraid to say you don't believe a rape victim, but don't want to offend your liberal friends who have embraced you, as you've amped up your #NeverTrump credentials.

2. I asked you to give me an example. Give me an example. Just one. Or two. But, put it in your words. Don't point me to some list that lacks a single specific example of Trump being a racist.

 

So, NBC gave a known racist a staring role in a prime time TV show, and partnered with him on his beauty pageants, and no one batten an eye?

All the media outlets that allowed him to promote his show, his pageants, his books, and other projects had no objections to promoting a known racist?

Joe and Mika were buddies with a known racist?

 

Is he racist?

I’m thinking it depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is.

 

Speaking of no eyes being batten, why are you having such a hard time answering my honest question, @YankeeFan?

 

A. I realize in the sports radio HOT TAKEZ era, saying “I don’t know” is seen as cowardly. But it’s an honest response when there’s a gap in information.

2. Every hardcore birther was a racist.

 

I remember when NBC gave a show to a known woman-drugger and rapist.

Actually, no I don’t. I was but a small child when The Cosby Show was on.

 

But Hillary.

 

If his unending investigation, initiated thanks to bought and paid for opposition research, results in the delegitimization of a President, the impeachment of a president, or his loss at reelection, he will have accomplished more to damage the country, the presidency, and our democracy, than Putin could have ever hoped to.