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The first time Donald Trump ever made headlines in the New York Times was in 1973—for a troubling reason.
The facts about Donald Trump’s history of prejudice.
September 2, 2016 by Kat Kane
It’s no secret that Donald Trump has built his presidential campaign on divisive rhetoric. From calling Mexicans criminals and rapists to retweeting white supremacists, he’s playing right into the bigotry and paranoia held by a faction of his supporters.
But Trump’s pattern of prejudice started long before he was a presidential candidate—or even a household name.
Trump has been a fixture of newspaper headlines for decades, but his front page debut in the New York Times came in 1973, when he was sued for violating the Fair Housing Act.
The Justice Department took Trump and his father to court for refusing to rent apartments to black applicants—marking their applications with a “C” for “colored”—and lying to them about whether any units were available.
As the Washington Post reported:
“Phyllis Spiro, a white woman who went undercover in 1973 at a Trump property, told investigators how a building superintendent acknowledged to her ‘that he followed a racially discriminatory rental policy at the direction of his superiors, and that there were only very few ‘colored’ tenants’ at the complex, according to court records.”
Trump handled the accusations in what would become typical Trump fashion: vehement denial and counterpunches.
Instead of settling the case, he claimed the government was trying to force him to rent to “welfare recipients” and called a news conference to announce a $100 million countersuit against the Department of Justice for defamation.
Trump’s countersuit was thrown out (the judge called it a “waste of time and paper”) and his company, Trump Management, eventually settled the civil rights suit, agreeing to a long list of anti-discrimination measures, including giving the National Urban League a weekly list of rental vacancies.
But just three years later, the Justice Department took Trump back to court for continuing to deny rentals based on race and steering black and Puerto Rican tenants to certain properties.
According to a recent New York Times report:
“While more black families were now renting in Trump-owned buildings, the government said, many had been confined to a small number of complexes. And tenants in some of these buildings had complained about the conditions, from falling plaster to rusty light fixtures to bloodstained floors.”
Trump’s troubling pattern has continued for decades—and not just in his apartment buildings. Here are four more times:
1989: Trump took out four full-page ads in New York City newspapers, calling for the return of the death penalty in response to the “Central Park Five”—four black teenagers and one Latino teenager who were accused of attacking and raping a jogger in what has been described as a modern-day lynching.
1992: The New Jersey Casino Control Commission fined the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino for removing black dealers from the floor to accommodate the bigotry of a big-time gambler.
2000: Trump secretly bankrolled a series of offensive ads to oppose Native American gaming in New York state.
2011: Trump started perpetuating the preposterous lie that America’s first black president isn’t really a U.S. citizen.
And now, of course, there’s his presidential campaign.
All of this together paints a dark picture of who Trump really is—and it’s something every voter should know before they head to the polls.
The facts about Donald Trump’s history of prejudice.
September 2, 2016 by Kat Kane
It’s no secret that Donald Trump has built his presidential campaign on divisive rhetoric. From calling Mexicans criminals and rapists to retweeting white supremacists, he’s playing right into the bigotry and paranoia held by a faction of his supporters.
But Trump’s pattern of prejudice started long before he was a presidential candidate—or even a household name.
Trump has been a fixture of newspaper headlines for decades, but his front page debut in the New York Times came in 1973, when he was sued for violating the Fair Housing Act.
The Justice Department took Trump and his father to court for refusing to rent apartments to black applicants—marking their applications with a “C” for “colored”—and lying to them about whether any units were available.
As the Washington Post reported:
“Phyllis Spiro, a white woman who went undercover in 1973 at a Trump property, told investigators how a building superintendent acknowledged to her ‘that he followed a racially discriminatory rental policy at the direction of his superiors, and that there were only very few ‘colored’ tenants’ at the complex, according to court records.”
Trump handled the accusations in what would become typical Trump fashion: vehement denial and counterpunches.
Instead of settling the case, he claimed the government was trying to force him to rent to “welfare recipients” and called a news conference to announce a $100 million countersuit against the Department of Justice for defamation.
Trump’s countersuit was thrown out (the judge called it a “waste of time and paper”) and his company, Trump Management, eventually settled the civil rights suit, agreeing to a long list of anti-discrimination measures, including giving the National Urban League a weekly list of rental vacancies.
But just three years later, the Justice Department took Trump back to court for continuing to deny rentals based on race and steering black and Puerto Rican tenants to certain properties.
According to a recent New York Times report:
“While more black families were now renting in Trump-owned buildings, the government said, many had been confined to a small number of complexes. And tenants in some of these buildings had complained about the conditions, from falling plaster to rusty light fixtures to bloodstained floors.”
Trump’s troubling pattern has continued for decades—and not just in his apartment buildings. Here are four more times:
1989: Trump took out four full-page ads in New York City newspapers, calling for the return of the death penalty in response to the “Central Park Five”—four black teenagers and one Latino teenager who were accused of attacking and raping a jogger in what has been described as a modern-day lynching.
1992: The New Jersey Casino Control Commission fined the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino for removing black dealers from the floor to accommodate the bigotry of a big-time gambler.
2000: Trump secretly bankrolled a series of offensive ads to oppose Native American gaming in New York state.
2011: Trump started perpetuating the preposterous lie that America’s first black president isn’t really a U.S. citizen.
And now, of course, there’s his presidential campaign.
All of this together paints a dark picture of who Trump really is—and it’s something every voter should know before they head to the polls.
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Thanks to the electoral advantage the Democrats enjoy, Hillary Clinton has many paths to become the next president.
If she wins Florida, which has 29 electoral votes, or even Ohio (18 electoral votes),
she will be the 45th president of the United States.
Currently tracking 39 polls from 22 pollsters
Updated about 15 hours ago
This chart combines the latest opinion polls into trendlines using a poll-tracking model and is updated whenever a new poll is released.
Currently tracking 26 polls from 14 pollsters
Updated about 17 hours ago
This chart combines the latest opinion polls into trendlines using a poll-tracking model and is updated whenever a new poll is released.
@CBU-105, you like it or not, the fact is that everything mentioned in that article is true, before posting it I verified through independent sources. You can also do your own research on the Google.
If she wins Florida, which has 29 electoral votes, or even Ohio (18 electoral votes),
she will be the 45th president of the United States.
Currently tracking 39 polls from 22 pollsters
Updated about 15 hours ago
This chart combines the latest opinion polls into trendlines using a poll-tracking model and is updated whenever a new poll is released.
Currently tracking 26 polls from 14 pollsters
Updated about 17 hours ago
This chart combines the latest opinion polls into trendlines using a poll-tracking model and is updated whenever a new poll is released.
@CBU-105, you like it or not, the fact is that everything mentioned in that article is true, before posting it I verified through independent sources. You can also do your own research on the Google.
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Just winning won't be enough...she has to aim for a landslide...even if she wins a "close" battle....it would be embarrassing!
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“When Donald opened his club in Palm Beach called Mar-a-Lago, he insisted on accepting Jews and blacks even though other clubs in Palm Beach to this day discriminate against blacks and Jews. The old guard in Palm Beach was outraged that Donald would accept blacks and Jews so that’s the real Donald Trump that I know.”
That was author Ronald Kessler in a July 2015 interview with Newsmax, talking about Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s business practices when it came to building a golf course in the Deep South.
In the 1990s, Trump was running into a problem getting his golf course approved by the local town council in Palm Beach, which was imposing restrictions on his bid.
So Trump shot back with maximum effect. As reported by the Washington Post’s Mary Jordan and Rosalind Helderman on Nov. 14, 2015: “Trump undercut his adversaries with a searing attack, claiming that local officials seemed to accept the established private clubs in town that had excluded Jews and blacks while imposing tough rules on his inclusive one.”
The Washington Post report continues, “Trump’s lawyer sent every member of the town council copies of two classic movies about discrimination: ‘A Gentleman’s Agreement,’ about a journalist who pretends to be Jewish to expose anti-Semitism, and ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner’ about a white couple’s reaction to their daughter bringing home a black fiancé.”
Sometimes, in judging the character of an individual, it pays to see what people actually do when nobody’s really paying attention. When it came to segregation in the South at private, all-white country clubs, it might have been in Trump’s business interests to simply look the other way. Instead, Trump did the right thing and insisted on desegregation at his golf resort.
And he won.
Soon thereafter, the local restrictions were lifted and, today, the golf course is open and remains inclusive.
It remains a point of pride for Trump, who boasted about the golf resort in a 2015 interview, “Whether they love me or not, everyone agrees the greatest and most important place in Palm Beach is Mar-a-Lago. I took this ultimate place and made it incredible and opened it, essentially, to the people of Palm Beach. The fact that I owned it made it a lot easier to get along with the Palm Beach establishment.”
At the time in 1997, then-Anti-Defamation League President Abraham Foxman praised Trump for elevating the issue of discrimination at private clubs, telling the Wall Street Journal, “He put the light on Palm Beach. Not on the beauty and the glitter, but on its seamier side of discrimination. It has an impact.” Foxman credited Trump’s move with encouraging other clubs in Palm Beach to do the same as Mar-a-Lago in opening up.
That’s the real Donald Trump. The one who dealt with a real problem to do with discrimination on race and religion in Palm Beach long before he was ever seeking public office by confronting a local planning board over its exclusive policies, determined he would do things differently.
http://truthfeed.com/trump-insisted...golf-course-in-1990s-when-others-didnt/10528/
The truth abut crooked hillary clinton is that she is a corrupt warhawk neocon who supports terrorists, is allied with states like saudi arabia, takes money from them and whose policies have resulted in the chaos, death and destruction we see in that part of the world as well as the resultant global terror attacks we have seen all over the world. The fact that she's raising all this money from neocon donors and wall street actually helps Trump, the upcoming wikileaks releases are going to sink her proper.
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By John Wagner September 5 2016
IN THE AIR EN ROUTE TO CLEVELAND — Hillary Clinton, who has had a standoffish relationship with the traveling press corps that follows her, made a point Monday of venturing to the back of her new campaign plane to offer greetings shortly before its maiden voyage — and promised a “more formal” conversation later.
“Hey, guys, welcome to our big plane,” Clinton told about three dozen members of the news media occupying the plane’s final seven rows. “It's so exciting.”
“I am so happy to have all of you with me,” she said in response to a question about sharing a plane with the press corps. “ I have just been waiting for this moment.”
Before Monday, Clinton and the press corps had been traveling the country on separate charter planes, with limited interaction between the Democratic presidential nominee and those who cover her on a daily basis.
The plane is a Boeing 737 that the Clinton campaign noted was manufactured in the United States. The color scheme is described as scion blue and white, and it is prominently adorned with Clinton’s “Stronger Together” slogan and the campaign’s “H” logo.
Clinton’s motorcade arrived Monday at the airport in Westchester County, N.Y., not far from her Chappaqua home, shortly after 10 a.m. The plane was soon en route to Cleveland, the first of two cities the candidate plans to visit on Labor Day.
Her ticket has a full day of events to commemorate the holiday. Clinton’s running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, is also on the trail, as are their spouses, Vice President Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the runner-up for the Democratic nomination. Read more
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2 minutes in a controlled environment, let's see her do a proper press conference fielding questions from dozens of reporters in an unscripted environment.
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Well, it would be really fun to see Hillary beat him with a huge electoral margin, but let’s not give Trumps supporters any ideas.
So you were unable to defend or object to anything that I posted?
Anyhow, I believe this issue of Mar a Lago was all about money, in other words, it was a smart business strategy not a social issue.
Hillary supports terrorists, really? Looks like you’re taking Russian/Iranian/Asad’s propaganda too seriously.
Look, America/Saudi relation is a very complicated issue and I would not want to discuss it at this time, the only thing I would say is that Hillary did not directly get that money it was donated to her charity which spends most of the money in projects and programs in Africa and Asia. On the other hand, Trump is a hypocrite and a liar, he has been shamelessly criticizing Hillary but he himself has been involved with the Saudis for a very long time:
08/21/15 Mobile, Alabama.
"Saudi Arabia – and I get along great with all of them. They buy
apartments from me, they spend 40 million, 50 million. Am I supposed to
dislike them? I like them very much. But you know Saudi Arabia makes $1
billion a day – a day. In all fairness that`s before the oil went down a
little bit, but that`s okay. These are minor details." Link
And read this and see how much Donnie was involved with the Saudi’s:
EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump made millions from Saudi Arabia, but trashes Hillary Clinton for Saudi donations to Clinton Foundation. Link
Poor trumps supporters now they are depending on a Russian agent to help their candidate, funny.
Nothing can save him he is going down!
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no, more like you have been unable to object to the things I've been posting, like Hillary Clinton being a neocon who is likely to start ww3.
not renting out apartments to people on welfare seems like a smart business strategy too.
I've been following that one closely for 5 years now, why don't you name me some "moderate" rebel groups, then ? people who you, as a US citizen, are happy forking out tax money for their guns and bombs ?
relations with Saudi is one thing, being in bed with them as they funnel weapons to terrorist groups in Syria and Libya is what I'm talking about.
pay for play
real estate businessman selling luxury condos vs secretary of state selling white house favours.
"russian agent" eh ?
blame the whole world but don't look into the actual content of the leaked e-mails.
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Hillary is going down and fast.
Once the three debates are over, Trump will romp home at ease.
Her end is near.
Once the three debates are over, Trump will romp home at ease.
Her end is near.
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lol, so it happened again to crooked ILLalry
Unfortunately for Hillary, her earlier coughing fit was not a lone wolf attack. Right in the middle of her "Russia-Trump Conspiracy" lecture to reporters aboard her plan, she was forced to cut short her story by another "seasonal allergy" attack (odd aboard was is likely a heavily filtered air cabin), retreating to the safety of the front seats withe the reappearance of her African American 'handler' once again. Upon her return she explained that "we went back and checked and this happens to me every Labor day." Which seems odd... one assumes that any ill-timed meeting of world-leaders will have to take place in a hermetically-sealed room from now on...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-...-one-worst-coughing-fits-ever-msnbc-cuts-away
are global bad vibes taking the witch down ?
@Desert Fox , read you earlier post, stay on this thread, man, if only to troll RK
Unfortunately for Hillary, her earlier coughing fit was not a lone wolf attack. Right in the middle of her "Russia-Trump Conspiracy" lecture to reporters aboard her plan, she was forced to cut short her story by another "seasonal allergy" attack (odd aboard was is likely a heavily filtered air cabin), retreating to the safety of the front seats withe the reappearance of her African American 'handler' once again. Upon her return she explained that "we went back and checked and this happens to me every Labor day." Which seems odd... one assumes that any ill-timed meeting of world-leaders will have to take place in a hermetically-sealed room from now on...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-...-one-worst-coughing-fits-ever-msnbc-cuts-away
are global bad vibes taking the witch down ?
@Desert Fox , read you earlier post, stay on this thread, man, if only to troll RK
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MSM are starting to throw in the towel:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/06/_poli...-vs-clinton-presidential-polls-election-2016/
Probably prepping themselves for the severe beating Clinton is going to get in the debates
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/06/_poli...-vs-clinton-presidential-polls-election-2016/
Probably prepping themselves for the severe beating Clinton is going to get in the debates
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This may very well be another coincidence. But if exploited cleverly by Trump camp, a case against her can be built among people. Such things are happening too frequently with her. Wonder how independent will react if they think she is not physically fit. She has focused her election campaign about Donald Trump. Never a good strategy.
But then again, Trump has a big mouth and he likes to run it.
If Trump continues to behave like e has in last one week, he has good chance. Hillary herself is enough to take her down.
