There's No Longer a Debate About Whether Trump is a Racist

I'm not going to re-hash the racist video (depicting the Obamas as gorillas) recently posted by convicted felon Donald Trump on social media.  I doesn't matter if it was one of a long string of late-night posts by the Orangeman-- we already know that he is a racist, and the evidence goes back years.

He was sued for racial discrimination in the 70's and lost twice. He said the five black teenagers wrongfully accused of raping a woman in Central Park should be executed (even though they were minors and the victim survived).  He repeated his accusation and vitriol even after another guy confessed and his DNA matched the victim (while there was no physical evidence connecting the black teenagers to the crime). Also, the death penalty is generally reserved for adults who commit really heinous murders or treason, not children who happen to be black.

Trump used to require that all his black employees at his casino be removed from visibility when he visited because he didn’t like seeing them.

Trump spent years saying Barack Obama wasn’t an American.  

Trump used to say that he didn’t like having a black accountant because …

• "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 that guy's lazy. And it's probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks."

Trump's own staffers and his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, have confirmed he’s a racist. He reportedly used the N-word multiple times behind the scenes on The Apprentice.  Trump also grew up with a racist father who was arrested at a KKK riot.  Trump also recently stated that the Civil Rights movement was “bad for white people.”  Huh? 

But yet here we are still debating whether the Pumpkin Pinochet is or isn’t a racist?  Stop already-- the case in closed.

Didn’t Trump have Nick Fuentes for dinner at Mar-A-Lago next to raging anti-semite Kanye West?

Didn’t Trump claim that he didn’t know who David Duke was, although a decade before, he knew exactly who David Duke was?

• Initial Disavowal (Feb 26, 2016): When asked about David Duke's support, Trump told reporters, "I disavow, okay?".
• CNN Interview (Feb 28, 2016): Two days later on CNN's "State of the Union," Trump told host Jake Tapper, "I don't know anything about David Duke" and "I don't know what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists".
• Backlash and Re-disavowal: Following widespread criticism from opponents and fellow Republicans, Trump claimed he had a "bad earpiece" during the CNN interview and asserted he had already disavowed Duke on Twitter and in previous,, statements. He later formally disavowed Duke again.

The bigger problem is that much of the Republican party are Racists or at least they don't find Racism to be a deal breaker-- they're fine with it.  That’s why Trump is popular with them in the first place; he frequently says the racist shit they’ve been afraid to say until now. And Trump does the racist shit (like Ethnic Cleansing) they want done. This is the real difference between MAGAs (those with the privilege to not have to care about people being fucked over) and the rest of us with basic human decency and empathy.  They’re willing to sell out their values on the cheap.

 

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ICE Barbie and Her Boyfriend In a Mess Over at DHS

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem capriciously fired a pilot for an exceedingly petty reason but was forced to immediately reinstate him so she could fly home.

The Wall Street Journal took a deep dive into the chaos and dysfunction inside the Department of Homeland Security, where multiple sources complained on and off the record about Noem and her top adviser and purported romantic partner Corey Lewandowski.  "Lewandowski and Noem, who are both married, have publicly denied the reports of the affair, but people said they do little to hide their relationship inside the department," the newspaper reported.  "The pair have lately been using a luxury 737 MAX jet, with a private cabin in back, for their travel around the country, according to people familiar with the matter," the report added. "DHS is leasing the plane but is in the process of acquiring it for approximately $70 million"

Noem and Lewandowski frequently berate senior staffers, demand polygraph tests for employees they don't trust and routinely fire employees for dubious reasons – such as one incident where Lewandowski fired a U.S. Coast Guard pilot after Noem’s blanket was left behind on a plane, according to sources familiar with that incident.  "In the blanket incident, Noem had to switch planes after a maintenance issue was discovered, but her blanket wasn’t moved to the second plane, according to the people familiar with the incident," the Journal reported. "The Coast Guard pilot was initially fired and told to take a commercial flight home when they reached their destination. They eventually reinstated the pilot because no one else was available to fly them home."

Lewandowski, who was Trump’s first campaign manager in the 2016 election, has also been illegally working as a special government employee well beyond the statutory 130-day limit and has an outsize presence in the department. "In an incident last year that rankled some senior staff at the agency, Lewandowski made it known to top ICE officials that he wanted to be issued a law-enforcement badge and a federally issued gun, according to people familiar with his push," the Journal reported. "Officials are typically only issued a badge and a gun after undergoing law-enforcement training."

Lewandowski passed over a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement official for the top job in that agency after he declined to issue him a badge and gun, and an ICE lawyer was demoted and moved to the Federal Emergency Management Agency after he also declined to sign off.  "Lewandowski eventually persuaded other lawyers to sign off," the Journal reported. "The ICE director’s autopen was used to sign the paperwork, the people said."

 

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