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1) Trump and his father ran a housing business that was sanctioned by the Justice Department in the 1970s for discriminating against prospective tenants of color. He hired Roy Cohn to defend the family.
2) He paid for newspaper ads in 1989 condemning black and Latino teenagers accused of assaulting a white jogger in Central Park, stoking racial animosities to keep himself in the public eye. (Long after the teenagers were exonerated, Trump continued to insist on their guilt.)
3) Trump saddled Barack Obama with bogus citizenship charges while embracing birtherism, and he attacked a federal judge by emphasizing his Mexican heritage.
4) Trump opened the White House to Steve Bannon, the former steward of Breitbart, a white-nationalist journal of record.
5) Trump has often refused to distance himself from white supremacists like David Duke. (“I know nothing about David Duke; I know nothing about white supremacists,” he has said.)
6) In White House meetings, Trump has inveighed against allowing immigrants from “shithole countries” — noting that, unlike residents of Norway, Haitians all had AIDS and Nigerians lived in “huts.”
7) Trump has unapologetically retweeted white nationalists, and for years has praised himself and others for being successful because of “good genes.”
8) In the wake of the Charlottesville marches in 2017, Trump famously couldn’t bring himself to condemn the white nationalists and neo-Nazis who took part. Instead, he criticized the “egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence, on many sides — on many sides.”
9) When he was running his casino business, Trump deployed a series of newspaper and broadcast branding a potential competitor seeking a gambling license — a Native American Tribe, the Mohawks — as drug dealers and criminals.
10) There is an ample public record of President Trump’s intersection with bigotry and racism. For example, here: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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16) Trump’s first wife, Ivana, told her lawyer during their divorce that Trump kept a copy of Hitler’s collected speeches by his bedside in Trump Tower. When a reporter questioned Trump about the book in 1990, he balked and then said it was a gift.
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17) Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, said that Trump was a profound racist whose private prejudices were worse than his public prejudices:
18) Jack O’Donnell spent 3.5 years working for Trump in AC and said his boss’s “prejudices didn’t stop at the color of one’s skin. Everyone was subject to judgment. It could be their ethnicity, their gender, their religion. It could be their social ‘caste’”politico.com/magazine/story…
