When asked to denounce white supremacy.....
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Fact Check: CNN Falsely Claims Trump ?Refuses to Call Out White Supremacists?
CLAIM: CNN claimed that President Donald Trump refused to call out white supremacists in the first presidential debate.
VERDICT: FALSE. He did so explicitly, and has done so before.
CNN ran a headline Tuesday evening specifically claiming: ?Trump refuses to call out white supremacists.?
That is simply untrue.
When moderator Chris Wallace asked Trump if he would condemn white supremacists ? falsely implying he had not done so in the past ? Trump said, ?Sure.? When Wallace asked him if he would ask ?white supremacists and militia groups? to ?stand down,? Trump said: ?Sure. I?m willing to do that.?
He then did so, specifically mentioning the Proud Boys, a right-wing group.
CNN later changed its headline ? but not before spreading the fake news about what Trump had said.
CLAIM: CNN claimed that President Donald Trump refused to call out white supremacists in the first presidential debate.
VERDICT: FALSE. He did so explicitly, and has done so before.
CNN ran a headline Tuesday evening specifically claiming: ?Trump refuses to call out white supremacists.?
That is simply untrue.
When moderator Chris Wallace asked Trump if he would condemn white supremacists ? falsely implying he had not done so in the past ? Trump said, ?Sure.? When Wallace asked him if he would ask ?white supremacists and militia groups? to ?stand down,? Trump said: ?Sure. I?m willing to do that.?
He then did so, specifically mentioning the Proud Boys, a right-wing group.
CNN later changed its headline ? but not before spreading the fake news about what Trump had said.
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He said, "Stand back and stand by." That about sums it up.
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Fake news.....again.
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Nice try. Unless you are hard of hearing, that is not what he said at all! Stand back and stand by has far different implications than "stand down." Moreover, can you point out where he actually admonishes or denounces white supremacy specifically? I'll save you the trouble. He doesn't. Rewatch it a million times if you must, but the account you posted is just plain wrong.
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You hear what you choose to hear. lolz Watch it a million times over if you must. He said exactly what I pointed out above.
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Now do the debate transcript. TIA.
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Reality is the most amusing part of political narratives. Trump has a lifetime record of beating back racism. His golf course and club being the first in the area to accept black members. He dated a black girl for 2 years. He has socialized with black celebrities and donated to black causes for decades. He has a 10-minute video compilation of denouncing racism and racist groups yet today reporters still hound for the answer again. Bahaha.
However, Biden gets a pass even after his comments about integrated schools, his actions in office for 45 years and his support of the 1994 ever so obviously racist crime bill. You wanna talk about systemic racism then actually look at the guy that has been in that system and promoting the racist agenda for his whole career.
It's pure comedy gold.
Layups are the easiest. And fuck Biden too.
The article goes into much more depth, but I've shortened for brevity. The link is there for the entire thing.
Peace!
An Oral History of Trump?s Bigotry
His racism and intolerance have always been in evidence; only slowly did he begin to understand how to use them to his advantage.
The first quotation from Donald Trump ever to appear in The New York Times came on October 16, 1973. Trump was responding to charges filed by the Justice Department alleging racial bias at his family?s real-estate company. ?They are absolutely ridiculous,? Trump said of the charges. ?We have never discriminated, and we never would.?
In the years since then, Trump has assembled a long record of comment on issues involving African Americans as well as Mexicans, Hispanics more broadly, Native Americans, Muslims, Jews, immigrants, women, and people with disabilities. His statements have been reflected in his behavior?from public acts (placing ads calling for the execution of five young black and Latino men accused of rape, who were later shown to be innocent) to private preferences (?When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor,? a former employee of Trump?s Castle, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, told a writer for The New Yorker). Trump emerged as a political force owing to his full-throated embrace of ?birtherism,? the false charge that the nation?s first black president, Barack Obama, was not born in the United States. His presidential campaign was fueled by nativist sentiment directed at nonwhite immigrants, and he proposed barring Muslims from entering the country. In 2016, Trump described himself to The Washington Post as ?the least racist person that you?ve ever encountered.?
Instances of bigotry involving Donald Trump span more than four decades. The Atlantic interviewed a range of people with knowledge of several of those episodes. Their recollections have been edited for concision and clarity.
I. ?You Don?t Want to Live With Them Either?
The Justice Department?s 1973 lawsuit against Trump Management Company focused on 39 properties in New York City. The government alleged that employees were directed to tell African American lease applicants that there were no open apartments. Company policy, according to an employee quoted in court documents, was to rent only to ?Jews and executives.?
The Justice Department frequently used consent decrees to settle discrimination cases, offering redress to plaintiffs while allowing defendants to avoid an admission of guilt. The rationale: Consent decrees achieved speedier results with less public rancor.
Nathaniel Jones was the general counsel for the NAACP. He later became a federal judge. John Yinger, an economist specializing in residential discrimination, served at the time as an expert witness in a number of fair-housing cases. Elyse Goldweber, a Justice Department lawyer, brought the first federal suit against Trump Management.
Nathaniel Jones: The 1968 Fair Housing Act gave us leverage to go after major developers and landlords. The situation in New York was terrible.
John Yinger: Community groups like the Urban League started doing audits and tests to show discrimination. In 1973, the Urban League found a lot of discrimination in some of the properties that Trump Management owned.
elyse goldweber: I went to a place called Operation Open City. What they had done was send ?testers??meaning one white couple and one couple of color?to Trump Village, a very large, lower-middle-class housing project in Brooklyn. And of course the white people were treated great, and for the people of color there were no apartments. We subpoenaed all their documents. That?s how we found that a person?s application, if you were a person of color, had a big C on it.
The Department of Justice brings the case and we name Fred Trump, the father, and Donald Trump, the son, and Donald hires Roy Cohn, of Army-McCarthy fame. [Cohn, a Trump mentor, had served as Senator Joe McCarthy?s chief counsel during his investigations of alleged Communists in the government and was accused of pressuring the Army to give preferential treatment to a personal friend.] Cohn turns around and sues us for $100 million. This was my first appearance as a lawyer in court. Cohn spoke for two hours, then the judge ruled from the bench that you can?t sue the government for prosecuting you. The next week we took the depositions. My boss took Fred?s, and I got to take Donald?s. He was exactly the way he is today. He said to me at one point during a coffee break, ?You know, you don?t want to live with them either.?
Everyone in the world has looked for that deposition. We cannot find it. Trump always acted like he was irritated to be there. He denied everything, and we went on with our case. We had the records with the C, and we had the testers, and you could see that everything was lily-white over there. Ultimately they settled?they signed a consent decree. They had to post all their apartments with the Urban League, advertise in the Amsterdam News, many other things. It was pretty strong.
john yinger: Trump had some interesting language after the settlement: He said that it did not require him to accept people on welfare, which was kind of beside the point.
Under the terms of the settlement, reached in 1975, the Trumps did not admit to any wrongdoing. But soon, according to the government, they were back at it. In 1978, the Justice Department alleged that Trump Management was in breach of the agreement. The new case dragged on until 1982, when the original consent decree expired and the case was closed. Soon, Trump?s headquarters would be installed in Trump Tower, which opened in February 1983. Barbara Res was the construction manager.
barbara res: We met with the architect to go over the elevator-cab interiors at Trump Tower, and there were little dots next to the numbers. Trump asked what the dots were, and the architect said, ?It?s braille.? Trump was upset by that. He said, ?Get rid of it.? The architect said, ?I?m sorry; it?s the law.? This was before the Americans With Disabilities Act, but New York City had a law. Trump?s exact words were: ?No blind people are going to live in this building.?
elyse goldweber: Was he concerned about injustice? No. Never. This was an annoyance. We were little annoying people, and we wouldn?t go away.
barbara res: As far as discrimination, he wouldn?t discriminate against somebody who had $3 million to pay for a three-bedroom apartment. Eventually he had some very unsavory characters there. But if you read John O?Donnell?s book [Trumped! The Inside Story of the Real Donald Trump?His Cunning Rise and Spectacular Fall, written with James Rutherford and published in 1991], Trump talked about how he didn?t want black people handling his money; he wanted the guys with the yarmulkes. He was very much the kind of person who would take people of a religion, like Jews; or a race, like blacks; or a nationality, like Italians, and ascribe to them certain qualities. Blacks were lazy, and Jews were good with money, and Italians were good with their hands?and Germans were clean.
nathaniel jones: Consent decrees were an important tool. The sad thing now is that, in his last act as Trump?s attorney general, Jeff Sessions issued a memorandum curtailing enforcement programs and consent decrees across the board when it comes to discrimination.
II. ?Bring Back the Death Penalty?
The so-called Central Park Five were a group of black and Latino teens who were accused?wrongly?of raping a white woman in Central Park on April 19, 1989. Donald Trump took out full-page ads in all four major New York newspapers to argue that perpetrators of crimes such as this one ?should be forced to suffer? and ?be executed.? In two trials, in August and December 1990, the youths were convicted of violent offenses including assault, robbery, rape, sodomy, and attempted murder; their sentences ranged from five to 15 years in prison. In 2002, after the discovery of exonerating DNA evidence and the confession by another individual to the crime, the convictions of the Central Park Five were vacated. The men were awarded a settlement of $41 million for false arrest, malicious prosecution, and a racially motivated conspiracy to deprive them of their rights. Trump took to the pages of the New York Daily News, calling the settlement ?a disgrace.? During his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump would again insist on the guilt of the Central Park Five.
Jonathan C. Moore represented four of the Central Park Five when they later sued the City of New York. Yusef Salaam was one of the five young men who were wrongly convicted. Timothy L. O?Brien spent hundreds of hours with Trump while researching his 2005 book, TrumpNation. C. Vernon Mason represented Salaam and other defendants.
III. ?They Don?t Look Like Indians to Me?
In the early 1990s, Trump attempted to block the building of new casinos in Connecticut and New York that could cut into his casino operations in Atlantic City. (All of Trump?s casinos eventually went into bankruptcy.) In October 1993, Trump appeared before the House Subcommittee on Native American Affairs of the Committee on Natural Resources. The subcommittee was chaired by Bill Richardson, later New Mexico?s governor. Trump was there to support an effort to modify legislation that had given Native American tribes the right to own and operate casinos. George Miller, a Democrat from California and the chair of the Committee on Natural Resources, was also present.
Tadd Johnson, of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Bois Forte Band, served as the Democratic counsel on the subcommittee. Rick Hill is a former chair of the National Indian Gaming Association and of the Oneida Tribe in Wisconsin. Pat Williams was a member of Congress from Montana.
Trump began by noting that he had prepared a ?politically correct? statement for the committee, but almost immediately went off script. The hearing became loud and acrimonious.
IV. ?Our Very Vicious World?
In the summer of 2005, Donald Trump had an idea: What if the next season of his reality-TV show, The Apprentice, pitted ?a team of successful African Americans versus a team of successful whites?? Trump thought the format would be a sort of social commentary??reflective of our very vicious world.? The concept never made it to air, but Trump?s treatment of black contestants on his show generated controversy.
One contestant, Kevin Allen, a graduate of Emory University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Chicago, was criticized by Trump on the show for being too educated; at the same time, Trump suggested that Allen was personally intimidating.
Mark Harris was a television critic for Entertainment Weekly. Kwame Jackson was the runner-up on The Apprentice?s first season.
V. ?He Doesn?t Have a Birth Certificate?
?Our current president came out of nowhere, came out of nowhere ? The people who went to school with him?they never saw him; they don?t know who he is.? That statement, made at the February 2011 Conservative Political Action Conference, marked the launch of Donald Trump?s public efforts to sow doubt about whether President Barack Obama had been born in the United States. ?Birtherism? had been festering for several years before Trump embraced it?supplanting other proponents and becoming its most prominent advocate. In March, on The View, Trump called on Obama to show his birth certificate. In April, he said that he had dispatched a team of investigators to Hawaii to search for Obama?s birth records.
For Trump, the run-up to birtherism had been a controversy that flared when a Manhattan developer proposed building an Islamic cultural center on a site in Lower Manhattan?the so-called Ground Zero mosque. In 2010, on the Late Show, Trump told David Letterman: ?I think it?s very insensitive to build it there. I think it?s not appropriate.? Letterman pushed back, saying that blocking an Islamic facility would be akin to declaring ?war with Muslims.? Trump answered: ?Somebody?s blowing up buildings, and somebody?s doing lots of bad stuff.? Trump offered to buy out one of the investors in order to halt the project. The action made him one of the project?s key opponents and for the first time gave him national visibility on the political right.
Anti-Muslim sentiment animated Trump?s birtherism campaign. He said of Obama on The Laura Ingraham Show in March 2011: ?He doesn?t have a birth certificate, or if he does, there?s something on that certificate that is very bad for him. Now, somebody told me?and I have no idea whether this is bad for him or not, but perhaps it would be?that where it says ?religion,? it might have ?Muslim.? ?
Sam Nunberg became an adviser to Trump after working with him to oppose the Islamic cultural center. Jerome Corsi, the author of Where?s the Birth Certificate?, and Orly Taitz, a dentist and an attorney, are among the instigators of the birther movement. Dan Pfeiffer was the White House communications director.
VI. ?On Many Sides?
Roughly six months into Trump?s presidency, on the night of Friday, August 11, 2017, hundreds of neo-Nazis and white supremacists marched onto the University of Virginia?s campus in Charlottesville chanting ?Jews will not replace us? and ?Blood and soil,? a Nazi slogan. The ?Unite the Right? rally was protesting the proposed removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Confrontations arose between members of the so-called alt-right and groups of counterprotesters, including members of the anti-fascist movement known as ?antifa.?
Mike Signer, Charlottesville?s mayor, had been dealing with far-right protests all summer. Richard Spencer was one of the key figures behind the ?Unite the Right? rally.
On August 12, a black man named DeAndre Harris was beaten by at least four white supremacists. At about 1:45 p.m. that day, James Alex Fields Jr., a 20-year-old white supremacist from Ohio, drove his Dodge Challenger into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring 35 others. Fields was convicted in December 2018 of first-degree murder. In March, he pleaded guilty to 29 of 30 federal hate-crime charges in a separate trial. Speaking on the afternoon of the attack from his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club, Trump denounced ?this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides.? He paused, then repeated: ?On many sides.? Lisa Woolfork is a UVA professor and an organizer with Black Lives Matter?s Charlottesville chapter. Jason Kessler was an organizer of the rally.
VII. ?Go Back to Their Huts?
In office, Donald Trump followed through on his promise to curb immigration from majority-Muslim countries. He created a commission to investigate voter fraud (virtually nonexistent, according to state election officials), claiming that he would have won the popular vote but for millions of ballots cast by people in the U.S. illegally. He shut down the government for 35 days in an attempt to secure funding for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. He reportedly referred to African countries as ?shithole? nations?asking why the U.S. can?t have more immigrants from Norway instead?and complained that, after seeing America, immigrants from Nigeria would never ?go back to their huts.? The administration favored victims of Hurricane Harvey, which hit Houston, over those of Hurricane Maria, which hit Puerto Rico, sending three times as many workers to Houston and approving 23 times as much money for individual assistance within the first nine days after each hurricane.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/trump-racism-comments/588067/
Now, if reading is too cumbersome for you, you can always just listen to this guy....lolz
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ScottAdamsSays</a> feels personally abused by Trump bombing on the white supremacy question during the debate. Adams says Trump lost his vote. <a href="https://t.co/VQxQstqKso">pic.twitter.com/VQxQstqKso</a></p>— JD-800 💽 (@thejd800) <a href="https://twitter.com/thejd800/status/1311735674161131520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Layups are the easiest. And fuck Biden too.
The article goes into much more depth, but I've shortened for brevity. The link is there for the entire thing.
Peace!
An Oral History of Trump?s Bigotry
His racism and intolerance have always been in evidence; only slowly did he begin to understand how to use them to his advantage.
The first quotation from Donald Trump ever to appear in The New York Times came on October 16, 1973. Trump was responding to charges filed by the Justice Department alleging racial bias at his family?s real-estate company. ?They are absolutely ridiculous,? Trump said of the charges. ?We have never discriminated, and we never would.?
In the years since then, Trump has assembled a long record of comment on issues involving African Americans as well as Mexicans, Hispanics more broadly, Native Americans, Muslims, Jews, immigrants, women, and people with disabilities. His statements have been reflected in his behavior?from public acts (placing ads calling for the execution of five young black and Latino men accused of rape, who were later shown to be innocent) to private preferences (?When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor,? a former employee of Trump?s Castle, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, told a writer for The New Yorker). Trump emerged as a political force owing to his full-throated embrace of ?birtherism,? the false charge that the nation?s first black president, Barack Obama, was not born in the United States. His presidential campaign was fueled by nativist sentiment directed at nonwhite immigrants, and he proposed barring Muslims from entering the country. In 2016, Trump described himself to The Washington Post as ?the least racist person that you?ve ever encountered.?
Instances of bigotry involving Donald Trump span more than four decades. The Atlantic interviewed a range of people with knowledge of several of those episodes. Their recollections have been edited for concision and clarity.
I. ?You Don?t Want to Live With Them Either?
The Justice Department?s 1973 lawsuit against Trump Management Company focused on 39 properties in New York City. The government alleged that employees were directed to tell African American lease applicants that there were no open apartments. Company policy, according to an employee quoted in court documents, was to rent only to ?Jews and executives.?
The Justice Department frequently used consent decrees to settle discrimination cases, offering redress to plaintiffs while allowing defendants to avoid an admission of guilt. The rationale: Consent decrees achieved speedier results with less public rancor.
Nathaniel Jones was the general counsel for the NAACP. He later became a federal judge. John Yinger, an economist specializing in residential discrimination, served at the time as an expert witness in a number of fair-housing cases. Elyse Goldweber, a Justice Department lawyer, brought the first federal suit against Trump Management.
Nathaniel Jones: The 1968 Fair Housing Act gave us leverage to go after major developers and landlords. The situation in New York was terrible.
John Yinger: Community groups like the Urban League started doing audits and tests to show discrimination. In 1973, the Urban League found a lot of discrimination in some of the properties that Trump Management owned.
elyse goldweber: I went to a place called Operation Open City. What they had done was send ?testers??meaning one white couple and one couple of color?to Trump Village, a very large, lower-middle-class housing project in Brooklyn. And of course the white people were treated great, and for the people of color there were no apartments. We subpoenaed all their documents. That?s how we found that a person?s application, if you were a person of color, had a big C on it.
The Department of Justice brings the case and we name Fred Trump, the father, and Donald Trump, the son, and Donald hires Roy Cohn, of Army-McCarthy fame. [Cohn, a Trump mentor, had served as Senator Joe McCarthy?s chief counsel during his investigations of alleged Communists in the government and was accused of pressuring the Army to give preferential treatment to a personal friend.] Cohn turns around and sues us for $100 million. This was my first appearance as a lawyer in court. Cohn spoke for two hours, then the judge ruled from the bench that you can?t sue the government for prosecuting you. The next week we took the depositions. My boss took Fred?s, and I got to take Donald?s. He was exactly the way he is today. He said to me at one point during a coffee break, ?You know, you don?t want to live with them either.?
Everyone in the world has looked for that deposition. We cannot find it. Trump always acted like he was irritated to be there. He denied everything, and we went on with our case. We had the records with the C, and we had the testers, and you could see that everything was lily-white over there. Ultimately they settled?they signed a consent decree. They had to post all their apartments with the Urban League, advertise in the Amsterdam News, many other things. It was pretty strong.
john yinger: Trump had some interesting language after the settlement: He said that it did not require him to accept people on welfare, which was kind of beside the point.
Under the terms of the settlement, reached in 1975, the Trumps did not admit to any wrongdoing. But soon, according to the government, they were back at it. In 1978, the Justice Department alleged that Trump Management was in breach of the agreement. The new case dragged on until 1982, when the original consent decree expired and the case was closed. Soon, Trump?s headquarters would be installed in Trump Tower, which opened in February 1983. Barbara Res was the construction manager.
barbara res: We met with the architect to go over the elevator-cab interiors at Trump Tower, and there were little dots next to the numbers. Trump asked what the dots were, and the architect said, ?It?s braille.? Trump was upset by that. He said, ?Get rid of it.? The architect said, ?I?m sorry; it?s the law.? This was before the Americans With Disabilities Act, but New York City had a law. Trump?s exact words were: ?No blind people are going to live in this building.?
elyse goldweber: Was he concerned about injustice? No. Never. This was an annoyance. We were little annoying people, and we wouldn?t go away.
barbara res: As far as discrimination, he wouldn?t discriminate against somebody who had $3 million to pay for a three-bedroom apartment. Eventually he had some very unsavory characters there. But if you read John O?Donnell?s book [Trumped! The Inside Story of the Real Donald Trump?His Cunning Rise and Spectacular Fall, written with James Rutherford and published in 1991], Trump talked about how he didn?t want black people handling his money; he wanted the guys with the yarmulkes. He was very much the kind of person who would take people of a religion, like Jews; or a race, like blacks; or a nationality, like Italians, and ascribe to them certain qualities. Blacks were lazy, and Jews were good with money, and Italians were good with their hands?and Germans were clean.
nathaniel jones: Consent decrees were an important tool. The sad thing now is that, in his last act as Trump?s attorney general, Jeff Sessions issued a memorandum curtailing enforcement programs and consent decrees across the board when it comes to discrimination.
II. ?Bring Back the Death Penalty?
The so-called Central Park Five were a group of black and Latino teens who were accused?wrongly?of raping a white woman in Central Park on April 19, 1989. Donald Trump took out full-page ads in all four major New York newspapers to argue that perpetrators of crimes such as this one ?should be forced to suffer? and ?be executed.? In two trials, in August and December 1990, the youths were convicted of violent offenses including assault, robbery, rape, sodomy, and attempted murder; their sentences ranged from five to 15 years in prison. In 2002, after the discovery of exonerating DNA evidence and the confession by another individual to the crime, the convictions of the Central Park Five were vacated. The men were awarded a settlement of $41 million for false arrest, malicious prosecution, and a racially motivated conspiracy to deprive them of their rights. Trump took to the pages of the New York Daily News, calling the settlement ?a disgrace.? During his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump would again insist on the guilt of the Central Park Five.
Jonathan C. Moore represented four of the Central Park Five when they later sued the City of New York. Yusef Salaam was one of the five young men who were wrongly convicted. Timothy L. O?Brien spent hundreds of hours with Trump while researching his 2005 book, TrumpNation. C. Vernon Mason represented Salaam and other defendants.
III. ?They Don?t Look Like Indians to Me?
In the early 1990s, Trump attempted to block the building of new casinos in Connecticut and New York that could cut into his casino operations in Atlantic City. (All of Trump?s casinos eventually went into bankruptcy.) In October 1993, Trump appeared before the House Subcommittee on Native American Affairs of the Committee on Natural Resources. The subcommittee was chaired by Bill Richardson, later New Mexico?s governor. Trump was there to support an effort to modify legislation that had given Native American tribes the right to own and operate casinos. George Miller, a Democrat from California and the chair of the Committee on Natural Resources, was also present.
Tadd Johnson, of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Bois Forte Band, served as the Democratic counsel on the subcommittee. Rick Hill is a former chair of the National Indian Gaming Association and of the Oneida Tribe in Wisconsin. Pat Williams was a member of Congress from Montana.
Trump began by noting that he had prepared a ?politically correct? statement for the committee, but almost immediately went off script. The hearing became loud and acrimonious.
IV. ?Our Very Vicious World?
In the summer of 2005, Donald Trump had an idea: What if the next season of his reality-TV show, The Apprentice, pitted ?a team of successful African Americans versus a team of successful whites?? Trump thought the format would be a sort of social commentary??reflective of our very vicious world.? The concept never made it to air, but Trump?s treatment of black contestants on his show generated controversy.
One contestant, Kevin Allen, a graduate of Emory University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Chicago, was criticized by Trump on the show for being too educated; at the same time, Trump suggested that Allen was personally intimidating.
Mark Harris was a television critic for Entertainment Weekly. Kwame Jackson was the runner-up on The Apprentice?s first season.
V. ?He Doesn?t Have a Birth Certificate?
?Our current president came out of nowhere, came out of nowhere ? The people who went to school with him?they never saw him; they don?t know who he is.? That statement, made at the February 2011 Conservative Political Action Conference, marked the launch of Donald Trump?s public efforts to sow doubt about whether President Barack Obama had been born in the United States. ?Birtherism? had been festering for several years before Trump embraced it?supplanting other proponents and becoming its most prominent advocate. In March, on The View, Trump called on Obama to show his birth certificate. In April, he said that he had dispatched a team of investigators to Hawaii to search for Obama?s birth records.
For Trump, the run-up to birtherism had been a controversy that flared when a Manhattan developer proposed building an Islamic cultural center on a site in Lower Manhattan?the so-called Ground Zero mosque. In 2010, on the Late Show, Trump told David Letterman: ?I think it?s very insensitive to build it there. I think it?s not appropriate.? Letterman pushed back, saying that blocking an Islamic facility would be akin to declaring ?war with Muslims.? Trump answered: ?Somebody?s blowing up buildings, and somebody?s doing lots of bad stuff.? Trump offered to buy out one of the investors in order to halt the project. The action made him one of the project?s key opponents and for the first time gave him national visibility on the political right.
Anti-Muslim sentiment animated Trump?s birtherism campaign. He said of Obama on The Laura Ingraham Show in March 2011: ?He doesn?t have a birth certificate, or if he does, there?s something on that certificate that is very bad for him. Now, somebody told me?and I have no idea whether this is bad for him or not, but perhaps it would be?that where it says ?religion,? it might have ?Muslim.? ?
Sam Nunberg became an adviser to Trump after working with him to oppose the Islamic cultural center. Jerome Corsi, the author of Where?s the Birth Certificate?, and Orly Taitz, a dentist and an attorney, are among the instigators of the birther movement. Dan Pfeiffer was the White House communications director.
VI. ?On Many Sides?
Roughly six months into Trump?s presidency, on the night of Friday, August 11, 2017, hundreds of neo-Nazis and white supremacists marched onto the University of Virginia?s campus in Charlottesville chanting ?Jews will not replace us? and ?Blood and soil,? a Nazi slogan. The ?Unite the Right? rally was protesting the proposed removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Confrontations arose between members of the so-called alt-right and groups of counterprotesters, including members of the anti-fascist movement known as ?antifa.?
Mike Signer, Charlottesville?s mayor, had been dealing with far-right protests all summer. Richard Spencer was one of the key figures behind the ?Unite the Right? rally.
On August 12, a black man named DeAndre Harris was beaten by at least four white supremacists. At about 1:45 p.m. that day, James Alex Fields Jr., a 20-year-old white supremacist from Ohio, drove his Dodge Challenger into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring 35 others. Fields was convicted in December 2018 of first-degree murder. In March, he pleaded guilty to 29 of 30 federal hate-crime charges in a separate trial. Speaking on the afternoon of the attack from his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club, Trump denounced ?this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides.? He paused, then repeated: ?On many sides.? Lisa Woolfork is a UVA professor and an organizer with Black Lives Matter?s Charlottesville chapter. Jason Kessler was an organizer of the rally.
VII. ?Go Back to Their Huts?
In office, Donald Trump followed through on his promise to curb immigration from majority-Muslim countries. He created a commission to investigate voter fraud (virtually nonexistent, according to state election officials), claiming that he would have won the popular vote but for millions of ballots cast by people in the U.S. illegally. He shut down the government for 35 days in an attempt to secure funding for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. He reportedly referred to African countries as ?shithole? nations?asking why the U.S. can?t have more immigrants from Norway instead?and complained that, after seeing America, immigrants from Nigeria would never ?go back to their huts.? The administration favored victims of Hurricane Harvey, which hit Houston, over those of Hurricane Maria, which hit Puerto Rico, sending three times as many workers to Houston and approving 23 times as much money for individual assistance within the first nine days after each hurricane.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/trump-racism-comments/588067/
Now, if reading is too cumbersome for you, you can always just listen to this guy....lolz
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ScottAdamsSays</a> feels personally abused by Trump bombing on the white supremacy question during the debate. Adams says Trump lost his vote. <a href="https://t.co/VQxQstqKso">pic.twitter.com/VQxQstqKso</a></p>— JD-800 💽 (@thejd800) <a href="https://twitter.com/thejd800/status/1311735674161131520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
THE ATLANTIC:mj07:
Yes, The Atlantic. What's wrong? Is the article written at a level that is above your reading comprehension? Intellectual acuity?
Which part of the article is false? Impossible to prove?
Research The Atlantic. Perhaps you may learn a thing or two. Or not.
Peace!
Just laughing at it doesn't have the same bite when you accompany it with their Media Bias and Factual Reporting Rating.
Factual Reporting: HIGH :0074
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[h=2]LEFT-CENTER BIAS[/h]</header>[FONT="]These media sources have a slight to moderate liberal bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes) to favor liberal causes. These sources are generally trustworthy for information, but may require further investigation. See all Left-Center sources.
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- Overall, we rate The Atlantic Left-Center Biased due to editorial positions and High for factual reporting based on excellent sourcing of information and a clean fact check record.
Just laughing at it doesn't have the same bite when you accompany it with their Media Bias and Factual Reporting Rating.
Factual Reporting: HIGH :0074
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[h=2]LEFT-CENTER BIAS[/h]</header>[FONT="]These media sources have a slight to moderate liberal bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes) to favor liberal causes. These sources are generally trustworthy for information, but may require further investigation. See all Left-Center sources.
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- Overall, we rate The Atlantic Left-Center Biased due to editorial positions and High for factual reporting based on excellent sourcing of information and a clean fact check record.
Jeffery Goldberg Editor in Chief, remember him? Fabricated hit piece, I'm sure you missed the part when he all but admitted making shit up with "anonymous sources".
