Racism and Xenophobia

And the fact this his version of negotiation is that he gets everything he wants.

The wall started as a gimmick he could sell, it was a marketing strategy to appeal to the right. Now he just wants to win for the sake of winning.

I don't even think he is personally racist, I do think he exploited and used other peoples' hate and bigotry to gain votes and support.

It has been blatant for decades. So many of his public statements make his prejudice clear.

But one example from his disgusting life tells the tale. In April of 1989, a young woman was attacked, raped and brutally beaten in New York's Central Park. Four young black men and an Hispanic man were arrested and charged for the "wilding" attack. Trump took out a full-page ad in the the newspaper calling for their execution. The men were convicted and sent to prison until 2002 when another man confessed to the crime. Coupled with DNA evidence, the 5 men had their convictions overturned.

Trump never apologized for his rush to judgment. Imagine if, in the heat of the moment, the young men had been sentenced sentenced to death! (It actually couldn't have happened in NY, but you get the point.)

This story tells us all we need to know about Trump's racism.

He and his father found ways of turning down blacks and Puerto Rican’s who applied to rent housing. Trump’s father owned apartments for middle income people. It is well known that if a person was black or Puerto Rican filled out an application to rent a place the managers would write a “C” in one of the top corners.

Then there is the Central Park jogger case in which 5 black youths were accused of beating and raping a white woman who was jogging. Trump did his usual smearing and advocating for the death penalty just like we’re familiar with today only he did it in the newspapers since Twitter and the internet had not been invented yet. Even after they were exonerated Trump continued to attack them and continued to insist on the death penalty for them.

You can google all of this.