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struggle4progress

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Mon Jan 15, 2018, 03:23 PM Jan 2018

Trump's Racism: The Definitive List

By DAVID LEONHARDT and IAN PRASAD PHILBRICK
JAN. 15, 2018

... Trump treated black employees at his casinos differently from whites, according to multiple sources. A former hotel executive 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" ...

In June 2017, Trump said 15,000 recent immigrants from Haiti "all have AIDS" and that 40,000 Nigerians, once seeing the United States, would never "go back to their huts" in Africa ...

He has retweeted white nationalists without apology ...

Trump hired Steve Bannon as his campaign head and later White House chief strategist. Under Bannon's leadership, the website Breitbart made white nationalism a central theme. It featured a section, for example, on "black crime" ...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/15/opinion/leonhardt-trump-racist.html?smid=tw-share&mtrref=t.co&assetType=opinion

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Trump's Racism: The Definitive List (Original Post) struggle4progress Jan 2018 OP
And Trump still has Steven Miller on his Wellstone ruled Jan 2018 #1
He also had that nazi Gorka on staff too before firing him, but Gorka's wife is still employed. brush Jan 2018 #2
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