Aide Fired From Trump Campaign for Being Racist Endorses Ted Cruz
How do you save face when Americas most prominent racist fires you from his campaign for doing something racist? The answer is simple: endorse the racists less-racist opponent, and claim youre doing it because the racist is too racist for you.
Such was the situation faced by Sam Nunberg, a Donald Trump aide who was fired from the candidates campaign last year over a Facebook post that referred to Al Sharptons daughter as N-! and others calling Barack Obama a Kenyan Muslim and Socialist Marxist Islamo Fascist Nazi Appeaser. (Nunberg said at the time that he was shocked and did not remember writing the posts.)
Now, according to an item in this mornings Politico Playbook, Nunberg is endorsing Ted Cruz. He told Mike Allen that he was concerned about Trumps lack of national security bona fides, but said that the last straw was the candidates KKK Tapper interview, in which he failed to immediately disavow the support of former the Klan leader David Duke. Coming from Nunberg, a close associate of fellow racist and ex-Trump staffer Roger Stone, thats pretty rich.
Of course, its not strictly true to say that Nunberg was fired from Trumps camp for being racistthe candidate himself is plenty racist, after all. Nunberg was fired for expressing his racism in direct terms, not using vague signifiers to give it a patina of plausible deniability, as is the traditional GOP way. And while Trump is pretty good at this dog-whistling, Ted Cruz is even better. You dont see nearly as many commentators calling Cruz out for racism, despite his proposition that we surveil and patrol law-abiding American Muslim neighborhoods, for instance.
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