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“On Memorial Day 1927, 1,000 white-robed Klansmen marched through the Jamaica neighborhood, eventually spurring an all-out brawl in which seven men were arrested. One of those arrested was Fred Trump.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/28/in-1927-donald-trumps-father-was-arrested-after-a-klan-riot-in-queens/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-...
“She seemed like the model tenant: 33, a nurse.
There was just one hitch: Maxine Brown was black.
The rental agent talked to his boss, Fred Trump.
‘I asked him what to do and he says, ‘Take the application and put it in a drawer and leave it there,’” https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/us/politics/donald-trump-housing-race.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/2...
There was just one hitch: Maxine Brown was black.
The rental agent talked to his boss, Fred Trump.
‘I asked him what to do and he says, ‘Take the application and put it in a drawer and leave it there,’” https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/us/politics/donald-trump-housing-race.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/2...
“When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor,” he said. “It was the eighties, I was a teen-ager, but I remember it: they put us all in the back.” https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/08/trump-casinos-black-employees/">https://www.motherjones.com/politics/...
“Trump treated black employees differently. A former hotel exec said Trump criticized a black accountant: “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks.” https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/15/opinion/leonhardt-trump-racist.html">https://www.nytimes.com/interacti...
“In 1989, Trump took out ads in newspapers urging the death penalty for 5 black & Latino teenagers accused of raping a white woman in Central Park; he argued they were guilty as late as June 2019, more than 15 years after DNA evidence had exonerated them.” https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/15/opinion/leonhardt-trump-racist.html">https://www.nytimes.com/interacti...
“According to six officials who attended or were briefed about the meeting, Trump began reading aloud from a document listing how many immigrants had received visas to enter the US in 2017. Haiti had sent 15,000 people. They ‘all have AIDS,’ he grumbled.” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/23/us/politics/trump-immigration.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/2...
“Forty thousand had come from Nigeria, Mr. Trump added. Once they had seen the United States, they would never ‘go back to their huts” in Africa, recalled the two officials, who asked for anonymity to discuss a sensitive conversation in the Oval Office.” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/23/us/politics/trump-immigration.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/2...
“Trump regularly demonized dark-skinned immigrants before the 2018 midterm elections, and his campaign produced an ad — about a caravan of migrants traveling through Mexico — that was so racist even Fox News declined to air it.” https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/15/opinion/leonhardt-trump-racist.html">https://www.nytimes.com/interacti...
“Twenty-four hours after entertaining and amplifying a false and racist birther conspiracy aimed at Sen. Kamala Harris, Trump had an opportunity to correct the record. He didn& #39;t.
For Trump, this is a return to familiar territory.” https://www.npr.org/2020/08/15/902756963/trumps-attacks-on-harris-are-a-return-to-familiar-territory">https://www.npr.org/2020/08/1...
For Trump, this is a return to familiar territory.” https://www.npr.org/2020/08/15/902756963/trumps-attacks-on-harris-are-a-return-to-familiar-territory">https://www.npr.org/2020/08/1...
