.@realDonaldTrump is a bully. And a racist. He's combining those traits to distract the American people from the #MuellerReport and create division in our nation. For everyone standing behind the President, including @HouseGOP, here's a reminder of just some of his racist momentshttps://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1155866838779215875 …
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2016: Said a Mexican-American judge should recuse himself from the Trump University trial due to his Mexican heritage.https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-keeps-up-attacks-on-judge-gonzalo-curiel-1464911442 …
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2016: Speaking to the African American community Trump said “You’re living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58 percent of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose?”https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/08/trump-to-black-voters-youre-poor-so-vote-for-me.html …
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2016: Trump declined to disavow David Duke and the KKKhttps://time.com/4240268/donald-trump-kkk-david-duke/ …
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2016: Trump attacked Somali Americans in Maine "We've just seen many, many crimes getting worse all the time, and as Maine knows — a major destination for Somali refugees — right, am I right?"https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/08/05/maine-sees-somalian-community-starkly-different-than-what-donald-trump-portrayed/qOh4IjKY3VYYcxNG7zkcBM/story.html …
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2016: Trump tweeted and later deleted an image that showed Hillary Clinton in front of a pile of money and by a Jewish Star of David that said, “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!”https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-tweet-that-blasts-clinton-as-corrupt-includes-the-star-of-david/2016/07/02/aee55b66-4090-11e6-84e8-1580c7db5275_story.html?utm_term=.1487cd3e8615 …
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2016, 2017, 2018, 2019: Trump repeated calls Massachussets Senator Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas”https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-elizabeth-warren-pocahontas-racial-slur-repeats-presidential-run-a8562136.html …
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2017: Trump stereotyped a black reporter at a press conference. When asked he plans to meet and work with the Congressional Black Caucus, he repeatedly asked her to set up the meeting — even as she insisted that she’s “just a reporter.”https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/2/16/14642184/trump-congressional-black-caucus-racism …
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2017: Trump repeatedly said that “many sides” and “both sides” were to blame for the violence & chaos that ensued in Charlottesville — suggesting that the white supremacist protesters were morally equivalent to counter protesters.https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/us/politics/trump-press-conference-charlottesville.html …
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2017: Trump said there were “some very fine people” among the white supremacists.https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/trump-defends-white-nationalist-protesters-some-very-fine-people-on-both-sides/537012/ …
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2017: Trump repeatedly attacked African American football players for peacefully protesting during the national anthem against systemic racism.https://www.vox.com/2018/8/15/17619122/kaepernick-trump-nfl-protests-2018 …
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2017: Trump reportedly said that people who came to the US from Haiti “all have AIDS” and that people who came to the US from Nigeria would never “go back to their huts” once they saw America.https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/23/us/politics/trump-immigration.html …
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2017: Trump pardoned Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio who oversaw the worst pattern of racial profiling in U.S. history.https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/sheriff-joe-arpaios-office-commits-worst-racial-profiling-in-us-history-concludes-doj-investigation-6655328 …
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2017: After Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico & decimated services across the island, Trump said Puerto Ricans were "not able to get their workers to help" because "They want everything to be done for them". Thousands died while Trump was slow to react.https://time.com/4963903/donald-trump-puerto-rican-leaders-want-everything-to-be-done-for-them/ …
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2018: In a meeting on immigration, Trump reportedly said in reference to Haiti & African countries, “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” He then suggested that the US should take more people from countries like Norway.https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-attacks-protections-for-immigrants-from-shithole-countries-in-oval-office-meeting/2018/01/11/bfc0725c-f711-11e7-91af-31ac729add94_story.html?utm_term=.d6a3756d04bd …
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2019: Trump tweeted regarding 4 American Congresswomen of color that they are “from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe” and that they should “go back” to those countries.https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/14/trump-congress-go-back-where-they-came-from-1415692 …
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2019: Trump attacks African American Congressman Elijah Cummings and claims his majority African American district was a “rat and rodent infested mess”.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/27/us/politics/trump-elijah-cummings.html …
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