Is Donald Trump a racist?

[Slapmynuts]

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[abc3643]

Well, the United States Federal Government accused him and his father of racism in the Justice Department's 1973 lawsuit against the Trumps for violating the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
https://www.justice.gov/crt/fair-housing-act-1

Specifically, the Trumps were avoiding renting to people of color as described in the front page story in the New York Times on 16 OCT 1973.

TITLE: Major Landlord Accused of Antiblack Bias in City
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2186612-major-landlord-accuse-of-antiblack-bias-in-city.html

The case was "United States v. Fred C. Trump, Donald Trump, and Trump Management, Inc.". This website explains it in detail...

https://clearinghouse.net/case/15342/

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Case: United States v. Fred C. Trump, Donald Trump, and Trump Management, Inc.
1:73-01529 U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Filed Date: Oct. 15, 1973
Closed Date: June 10, 1977

Case Summary
This case was brought against Fred and Donald Trump, and their real estate company, in 1973 in the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

In October 1973, the Justice Department filed this civil rights case in the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (federal court in Brooklyn) against Fred Trump, Donald Trump, and their real estate company. The complaint alleged that the firm had committed systemic violations of the Fair Housing Act of 1968 in their many complexes--39 buildings, between them containing over 14,000 apartments. The allegations included evidence from black and white "testers" who had sought to rent apartments; the white testers were told of vacancies; the black testers were not, or were steered to apartment complexes with a higher proportion of racial minorities. The complaint also alleged that Trump employees had placed codes next to housing applicant names to indicate if they were black.

The Trumps retained Roy Cohn, former aide to Senator Joseph McCarthy, to defend them; they counter-claimed against the government, seeking $100 million in damages for defamation.

The case was assigned to District Judge Edward R. Neaher. He dismissed the counterclaim and allowed the Fair Housing Act suit to proceed.

After two years, the matter settled with a consent decree, signed June 10, 1975. It included the ordinary disclaimer of liability (the settlement was “in no way an admission” of a violation), but prohibited the Trumps from "discriminating against any person in the terms, conditions, or privileges of sale or rental of a dwelling." In addition to a general injunction against discrimination, the decree prohibits specific discriminatory practices, such as lying about the availability of apartments or interfering with individuals' enjoyment of their housing rights through threats or coercion. Fred and Donald Trump were ordered to "thoroughly acquaint themselves personally on a detailed basis" with the Fair Housing Act. The agreement also required the Trumps to place ads informing minorities they had an equal opportunity to seek housing at their properties. According to a contemporary article in the New York Times, Trump Management was required to furnish the New York Urban League with a weekly list of all apartment vacancies, for two years; the League would get three days to provide qualified applicants for every fifth vacancy in Trump buildings where fewer than 10 percent of the tenants were black.

The Justice Department called the decree “one of the most far-reaching ever negotiated.” Newspaper headlines echoed that assessment. The New York Amsterdam News, for example, titled its article “Minorities win housing suit,” and told readers that “qualified Blacks and Puerto Ricans now have the opportunity to rent apartments owned by Trump Management.”

In his autobiography, Donald Trump took a different view: “In the end the government couldn’t prove its case, and we ended up making a minor settlement without admitting any guilt.”

For more information, see Michael Kranish and Robert O'Harrow Jr. Inside the government’s racial bias case against Donald Trump’s company, and how he fought it (Washington Post, Jan. 23, 2016).

In 2017, the FBI released records of its investigation into the Trumps and their real estate company in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. The documents included many pages of interviews with the company's then-current and former employees, interviews with residents of Trump properties, and people who had applied to Trump properties. The majority of interviewees were not aware of any discrimination occurring, but several contributed to the conclusion that the company was discriminating on the basis of race.

One interviewee, a black prospective tenant, noted that, in person, a leasing manager showed her several available apartments but later called her to tell her that she could not have an apartment in that complex "as they discriminated against blacks." He then asked her not to make any trouble as he needed the job.

Another interviewee, an employee of the company for two weeks, indicated that in his time at the company he fielded an inquiry from a black applicant who he judged to be an acceptable tenant but was told by another individual at the company that "they're blacks and that's that." He also indicated that he believed others working at the rental office used a code on the top of the front page of rental applications to "distinguish blacks from whites."

Also in the documents were records from the New York State Division of Human Rights and the NYC Human Rights Commission complaints and hearings about discrimination at Trump properties. The complaints were mooted when the company offered the complaining parties apartments in their properties. A 1968 hearing of the NYC Human Rights Commission, however, found that discrimination had occurred at a Trump property. The commission ordered the company to cease and desist from their discriminatory practices, pay damages to the complainant, and inform a fair housing organization whenever apartments at the property became available.

[Soteris]

Why yes, Donald Trump is a racist. In fact, he has a long history of racism ranging from discriminating against tenants in his properties to oppressing minorities etc.. I would not say he is particularly ideologically driven in his racism, in that he simply has a racist view of the world but is not really intending to do much about it. When he talks about Mexican rapists and criminals it is not really because he wants to attack them in particular and more that he just honestly believes that they are and makes decisions based on it.

To put forward some examples then we can start with this:
“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 the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.”

Which was a quote which Trump confirmed was "probably true" even though he instantly went into a rant about how the author was a loser and whatever.

[sage2021]

Hey, slap your own nuts! And while you're at it, why don't you go sleep in the streets lined with feces! Or better yet, since you must like living in the shit hole Biden made for us, why don't you move to a third world country and. ind your own business?

[OtterMan68]

look up Trump and the Central Park Five.

When he ran for president in 2016, he tweeted out false crime statistics that showed blacks committing a higher percentage of crimes than they actually did. He never apologized.

He accused Nikki Haley's parents of being illegal immigrants.

Said Jeb Bush had to like illegal immigrants becuase of his Mexican wife, and said Bush was crazy and "spoke Mexican."

Repeatedly called Elain Chao "[Mitch McConnell's] China-loving wife, Coco Chow.

His cabinet was the least diverse cabinet in decades.

[Flatmanlewis]

No. I don't think he is. These lefties believe any words they can twist to use as proof of racism have merit. The problem I see is this:


The are not on a crusade against racism. They are on a crusade against anybody they disagree with and use accusations of racism as a weapon. When somebody they politically agrees with says something racist they just turn a blind eye. When somebody they dislike says something the screen and point like they have stabbed them with the spear of truth. It’s equally transparent and absurd. It’s part of the reason I stopped voting democrat many years ago.


There is legitimate racism all over the world. I’ve spoken to people in other countries who had hate so bold and unapologetically for different people. (even people the same race as them but just from a different tribe, sect, or region, but that’s a different topic entirely.)

[Anonymous]

Not a single brainwashed person who calls him a racist can give a "Valid" proof

I saw an opinion on this question with a quote of Trump saying something racist and he himself calls it "probably true"... again what's the proof that he said that except for an author saying he did? And why won't someone hate a person who makes false remarks about them?

Yet no one bats an eye about Biden's racist quotes which were caught on camera and it's availiable on youtube

"If you don't vote for me, You ain't black" -Biden 2020

"Poor kids are just as smart as white kids" -Joe Biden

Now let's a pedo quote:

"I love little kids jumping on my lap" - Again, Joe Biden

[Dargil]

If you know (or even have read) the traditional definition of racism before wokesters embellished to mean "anything I do not agree with", you would know he is not EXCEPT in the demented mind of compulsive Trump haters. These same people would murder him of they thought they could get away with it. Leftists are as bad as ISIS.

[exitseven]

Trump was well known for fair employment under his company. If somebody was talented and could do thr job he dismissed not care what color they were. This was apparent during his admistration as well. He ran an organization based on merit and not race but had many minorities working in his administration.

[KostasKouvalis]

I think he's a White Supremacist, and yes there IS a different. It's perfectly okay to believe your race is superior, while still believing other races should have access to the same opportunities and rights.

[Twalli]

You forgot endorsed by well known leaders of White Nationalist groups and claiming that there were good people on both sides in Charlottesville.

[Anonymous]

No shit. He's also xenophobic, Islamophobic, homophobic

[tfan1]

No he is not.

[Astarlessnightsky]

Yep. big one.

[gorydetails]

No, he isn't.

[Iron_Man]

No he is not

[Pterodon]

Hell no