1/ 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.
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2/ “They are absolutely ridiculous,” Trump said of the charges. “We have never discriminated, and we never would.”
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3/ In the years since, 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.
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4/ In 2016, Trump described himself to The Washington Post as “the least racist person that you’ve ever encountered.” But instances of bigotry involving Donald Trump span more than four decades.
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5/ For the latest issue of our magazine,
@grahamdavida,@AdrienneNGreen,@ParkerTRichards, and Cullen Murphy interviewed a range of people with knowledge of several of those episodes. Read the story here: http://on.theatln.tc/qHMCiBw4 replies 46 retweets 95 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @TheAtlantic @GrahamDavidA and
The Atlantic repeats the
#finepeoplehoax even though it has been debunked by all major media outlets.@ScottAdamsSays has been right on this from the beginning.pic.twitter.com/uo46ZS5rua
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Nowhere in that crowd marching with torches and chanting "Jews will not replace us" was there even a single "very fine person". Trump wanted us to believe some of them were just southern history buffs. He was wrong, as he often is. Likewise Scott Adams.
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I recently talked with two Jewish attendees who obviously disavow the neo-Nazis but support free speech. I'm not the press, and even I did more research on this topic than they did without even trying. NY Times also found some fine people. See links here:https://bit.ly/2vwqxLD
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