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>This is in the first or second year of at least a 4 year term and potential 8 year term.

As mentioned in my original question, Trump has being accused of racism and dealing with racial accusations dating back as far as the early 1970s. Before he was even on the national stage. This wasn't something that begun in 2016 and picked up in an attempt to "find dirt" on him as you seem to claim in your response. There were many many people who came forward.



Here's a list of things he's dealt with directly (note there are some moments of seemingly anti-racist acts). His "introduction" to the public eye was a report of him being sued by the DOJ for being racist. But that isn't it.


Here's a book published in 1991 also accusing Trump of being racist .


>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.


The author recently wrote another article going into more detail and with more accounts.

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He lost a discrimination suit in 1992

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Here's an article from 2015 highlighting accusations made against Trump in the early 1980s


>"When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor,” he said. “It was the eighties, I was a teen-ager, but I remember it: they put us all in the back."

It should be noted that, Trump isn't even the subject matter of that article.

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He had a fairly bigoted response to the 2010 mosque fiasco


>Letterman wondered: "Describe for me what insensitivity is manifested if it's built there?" And Letterman fretted: "Does this suggest that we are in fact officially at war with Muslims?"

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>To which, Trump observed: "Well, somebody knocked down the World Trade Center."
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I don't point to all of these in an attempt to try and convince you Donald Trump is racist. I do so because I'm struggling seeing how the top answer on this question is that accusation that Trump is racist is "way off base".

Can you see how it would be strange to a NS that the first thing that popped into many NN here's mind is racism. When, at this point believing Trump isn't racist is pretty much faith based (which is fine) considering it goes against court cases and accusations dating back all the way to the 70s?

"“Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys wearing yarmulkes… Those are the only kind of people I want counting my money. Nobody else…Besides that, I tell you something else. I think that’s guy’s lazy. And it’s probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks."

Edit: Since you decided to delete your reply questioning me, I'll just post this here instead.

Oh its more fun than that my friend.

https://www.amazon.com/Trumped-Inside-Trump-His-Cunning-Spectacular/dp/067173735X

That book is the source for the quote. He was the COO of Trump Plaza. Now the real fun part is that Trump acknowledges it.

He was interviewed by Playboy in 1997 where he referred to the comments as "probably true."

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/07/20/trump_complained_about_blacks_inherent_laziness_1991_book_says.html

https://www.amazon.com/Trumped-Inside-Trump-His-Cunning-Spectacular/dp/067173735X

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/297522/donald-trump-laziness-trait-in-blacks-john-odonnell/

> Why would a rich, successful 70 year old guy with no history in politics decide to run for President?

But this is false. He's been floating the idea of running for president since the 1980s, has been publicly commenting on political issues for just as long, and briefly ran for president under the Reform Party in 2000 (and people voted for him in the California primary).

The idea that he was some guy who's never gotten involved in politics is pushed a lot, but it's simply not true, and the record is crystal clear on that. Trump has been entertaining entering politics for decades now.

> If he's just another member of the elite then I don't know why they all turned completely against him when they were supportive (or neutral) towards him before any of this.

This also isn't true. Trump had been a target of ridicule and mockery long before his recent campaign. Not by everyone, certainly, but by a great many people and in a public way. He was often seen as a caricature and an oaf. He was the butt of jokes on numerous shows, even as far back as the late '80s and early '90s. He had had scathing books written about him. He has been called out for "intellectual poverty" and "bizarre claims" since at least 1993, and for bigotry before that. And when he jumped aboard the Obama Birther train, many began to see him as a loon.

So it's just not true that the world suddenly turned on him when he ran for president. He had already been a divisive person prior to that, and this is well-documented as well.

Racism can be a tricky thing to ascribe, especially if the author of it takes pains to hide their own motivations (as pretty much anyone besides avowed white nationalists would). However, if you look at his life, a pattern is fairly clear:

• Frank Trump sued for discriminating against blacks in housing vacancies -- but "Donald wasn't in charge" you might say, but of course he was in charge of counter-suing the Justice department for a $100 mil, and accused the government of "forcing him to rent to “welfare recipients”"
  
  
• Or a former Casino worker at Trump Atlantic, who claimed:
  "“When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor. … They put us all in the back.”", but he might have lied, so let's keep going.
  
  
• Or a former COO of Trump Plaza, who claimed Donald went on a rant about how laziness is a trait for Blacks (screenshot from Google Books). But again, there's a motive -- selling more books, so we continue
  
  
• How about the time that he took out a full page ad in the NYT advocating bringing back the death penalty for 5 Black men who were proved innocent by DNA evidence in a rape case. Of course, he must have just been standing up for the rule of law, and they did confess (although most say under duress)
  
  
• Or how bout that time during the campaign where he claimed Jews wouldn't support him because he didn't want their money, and they wanted to control the politicians
  
  
  I don't expect to convince you, nor do I even want to argue this further. But if you don't see any reason why people might consider him to be racist aside from MSM, you're deluding yourself.

1. Dog whistle words, and the connotations that the black president is failing to control all black people. Let's face it, he's using the word "thug" the same way that the alt-right use the word "thug."
   
   
2. It's the quote about the Khans. He's heavily implying that because of their religion and nationality, that Khan's wife is forbidden to speak.
   
   
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4. The quote was spoken on Morning Joe in regards to Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who agreed to hear the class-action suit against Trump. Trump is implying that because he (a second-generation hispanic born in the USA) is "mexican," he is hearing the case out of spite for Trump.
   
   
5. Really? The implication that a black president is illegitimate and possibly a 'muslim' based on absolutely nothing, and demanding to see his birth certificate isn't racist? Just because he adds "I don't know" and "Somebody told me" doesn't mean it isn't his own thoughts. He's just dressing them up in bullshit to try to take the heat off himself and claim that he's just repeating someone else's ideas.
   

one of Trump's former colleagues recalled him saying, "Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are little short guys that wear yarmulkes every day."

http://www.amazon.com/Trumped-Inside-Trump-His-Cunning-Spectacular/dp/067173735X

So I may have gotten Trump mixed up with another Republican canidate on the poor blacks. I Will edit that.

Trump wants to deport 11 million people forcefully who are mainly of Asian or Latino decent. He is not offering them a way to become citizens and he doesn't even talk much about massive reforms to our immigration system.

Trump was firm concerning restrictions in immigration. “I’m opposed to new people coming in,” he said. “We have to take care of the people who are here.”
Source: nytimes.com/library/politics , Dec 10, 1999

No that is him continuing to assert that Chinese and other Asian manufactoring countries have teamed up to create a conspiracy about global warming so they can bring us down or something.

He never talks this way about Germany or Poland or Russia. He seems to target Asian and Latino countries with 25% tarriffs and talks of commiting war crimes on the middle east.

The last few mass shootings were done by white Christians, some of the biggest attacks on America were done by White people but after 2 shootings we should force all Muslims to register and there should be a travel ban?

Again he maybe a friend of Israel but he is a bigot.

I know, right? There's ZERO evidence he's racist!

That's why it's so terrible how Lindsey Graham called Trump a racist.
And it's sure wrong for this black Republican congressperson to think he's racist.
And this one.
Where do those black republican lawmakers get off?

Republican kingmaker Eric Erickson called Trump racist.
Paul Ryan called Trump's comments racist. The nerve.
They must be crazy!

I love how Trump's response ("You have people on both sides") and refusal to apologize to the innocent Central Five this year- the kids he advertised he wanted to kill- was the same as his response to the Nazi rally that DID kill people. That definitely proves he's not racist. His shit-hole countries comment- all black- reported by Republican and Democrat lawmakers the following day, that was great. Not racist. How he denied Bermuda refugees because the could tell they some were "gang members" as an excuse for not helping them instead of simply not helping them... that's just good politics. And his fears that Nigerian would "never go back to their huts"? Well, that's just the lamestream press, out to get our non-racist president. The fact he totally caved on this discrimination suit doesn't prove anything- he just couldn't win it. Not racism. Because he was willing to date with a beautiful biracial model. SO. NOT. RACIST. The guy who claimed- before anyone took Trump's campaign for President seriously- that Trump made all the black people come off the floor in his casino before he went out is the real racist. And the 1991 biography that talked of Trump's racism "laziness is a trait in blacks"? Just the media playing the long game. Why, back in 1991 they thought that "you always suspected that beneath his crude, callow, shallow exterior lay a crude, callow, shallow interior." They must have known he'd run for president some day, and had it in for him back then.

I like his belief that he's genetically superior, and that his "German blood" is "great stuff"; how his "winning" comes from genes, genes that some people just don't have. That's just good (1930's era) science! It also totally mirrors the 1990 interview he gave to a long time acquaintance which discusses a copy of Mein Kempf he claimed he "got from a friend". Of course his wife said he "kept by his bed" ...how dare she. He divorced her right around then and paid her millions to keep her mouth shut. That sure taught her! (He also paid his next wife millions to not publish her book on him. What are you gonna do. Except not be racist. Like Trump.)

So let this clear the air once and for all.

• Trump is not racist.
  
• There is Zero evidence.
  
• And anyone who thinks otherwise is a deranged anti-Republican.
  
  End of story.

This is the book in question. I linked to an article about it elsewhere in the comment chain, but this is the book that is the source of the quote. It is by a former President of the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City.

When asked about the book in 1999, Trump said "The stuff O’Donnell wrote about me is probably true." Here's a link for that.

Well, there was the fact that he said that he was worried about a Federal judge being biased because he was Mexican. You know, the one I mentioned upthread? The one from fucking INDIANA? Calling a judge biased based on his apparent race is... racist! My source is... Donald Trump, who said that shit himself on camera.

Also, upthread, was mention of the Department of Justice going after the property management company that Trump ran twice for racist practices related to black applicants. Discriminating against people based on race in terms of whether or not you will rent to them is... racist! If you need a source on that, there's google.

The, the book written by the former president of his casino. Trumped!: The Inside Story of the Real Donald Trump-His Cunning Rise and Spectacular Fall. I wish I had an affiliate link. The statement was "Besides that, I've got to tell you something else. 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.... Don't you agree?" Do I really have to point out what this is an example of?

So yeah, the guys is what we in the field like to call "really fucking racist", probably just shy of "don't mention blacks around Uncle Ted even if he's sober"-racist. These facts weren't hidden away or never mentioned. I didn't really go hunting for them or engage in anything a junior high English teacher would call research. It's all fairly common knowledge.

Tell me, is any of this really a surprise to you?

Edit: And you edited a bunch of crap into your post. Whatever.

Apart from the examples you probably know about, e.g. mexican rapist comments. The former president of one of his casino's wrote a book in 1991, with much more explicit quotes.

Probably the most well known of which, is "laziness is a trait in blacks. I really believe that".

That snopes article is with respect to the quote "lazy fools only good at eating, lovmaking, and thuggery." The quote Im referring to is allegedly from the following book: http://www.amazon.com/Trumped-Inside-Trump-His-Cunning-Spectacular/dp/067173735X/ref=la_B000APBB94_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1451843508&sr=1-1

I tried and failed. They are all too good. Honestly though, I don't think any quotes speak as loudly as denying housing to black people. : https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/us/politics/donald-trump-housing-race.html

The quotes were gathered from this website: https://www.ibtimes.com/donald-trump-racist-15-controversial-quotes-president-elect-said-about-blacks-2447531

The question of "Is Donald Trump Racist?" has been very well documented. It is a bit tricky to work Google though.

“If you look at his wife, she was standing there. She had nothing to say. She probably, maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say. You tell me,” Trump said in response to Khizr Kahn, the father of fallen Muslim Army Captain Humayun Khan, after his Democratic National Convention speech in July.

“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending the best. They’re not sending you, they’re sending people that have lots of problems and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists… And some, I assume, are good people,” Trump said while announcing his campaign in June 2016. 

“Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys wearing yarmulkes… Those are the only kind of people I want counting my money. Nobody else…Besides that, I tell you something else. I think that’s guy’s lazy. And it’s probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks,” John O’Donnell, a former president of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, quoted Trump saying to him in his 1991 book. In May 1997, Trump was asked about his comment during an interview with Playboy, and he confirmed that “the stuff” O’Donnell wrote about him were “probably true.”

“A well-educated black has a tremendous advantage over a well-educated white in terms of the job market. . . . If I were starting off today, I would love to be a well-educated black, because I believe they do have an actual advantage,” Trump said in a 1989 interview with Bryant Gumbel.

“He’s a Mexican. We’re building a wall between here and Mexico. The answer is, he is giving us very unfair rulings – rulings that people can’t even believe,” Trump said about Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who oversaw a class action lawsuit against Trump University. Curiel is a U.S. citizen who was born in Indiana.

"He doesn't have a birth certificate, or if he does, there's something on that certificate that is very bad for him. Now, somebody told me -- and I have no idea if this is bad for him or not, but perhaps it would be -- that where it says 'religion,' it might have 'Muslim.' And if you're a Muslim, you don't change your religion, by the way," Trump said of Obama during a March 2011 appearance on The Laura Ingram show.

Here are some more. Not only is he a racist but he has the vocabulary of a 1st grader


I have a great relationship with the blacks. I’ve always had a great relationship with the blacks.”




. “Our great African-American president hasn’t exactly had a positive impact on the thugs who are so happily and openly destroying Baltimore.”




 “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys wearing yarmulkes… Those are the only kind of people I want counting my money. Nobody else…Besides that, I tell you something else. I think that’s guy’s lazy. And it’s probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks,” John O’Donnell, a former president of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, quoted Trump saying to him in his 1991 book. In May 1997, Trump was asked about his comment during an interview with Playboy, and he confirmed that “the stuff” O’Donnell wrote about him were “probably true.”



A well-educated black has a tremendous advantage over a well-educated white in terms of the job market. . . . If I were starting off today, I would love to be a well-educated black, because I believe they do have an actual advantage,” Trump said in a 1989 interview with Bryant Gumbel.





They don’t look like Indians to me and they don’t look like Indians to Indians,” Trump said about his Native American casino competitors during a 1993 Congressional committee hearing on casinos operated and owned by Native American tribes.




Look, I’m a negotiator like you folks; we’re negotiators,” Trump said while giving a speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition in December.




“Who the f knows? I mean, really, who knows how much the Japs will pay for Manhattan property these days?” Trump said referring to Japanese people during a January 1989 Time magazine profile.



He doesn't have a birth certificate, or if he does, there's something on that certificate that is very bad for him. Now, somebody told me -- and I have no idea if this is bad for him or not, but perhaps it would be -- that where it says 'religion,' it might have 'Muslim.' And if you're a Muslim, you don't change your religion, by the way," Trump said of Obama during a March 2011 appearance on The Laura Ingram show.



Here is an interactive hate map


https://americasvoice.org/trumphatemap/


Is this why you resonate with him

>This is a large part of his appeal. He articulates the frustration and bewilderment of that section of uneducated, unskilled, low-paid white America, whose wages have stagnated and social mobility has stalled that is nostalgic for its local privileges and global status. In recent times, they have lost wars, jobs, houses and confidence.

The context is nonexistent, because he didn't say it. The only source you will find for that is a book that was written to defame Trump, this book here: https://www.amazon.com/Trumped-Inside-Trump-His-Cunning-Spectacular/dp/067173735X The same source that people cite when they quote Donald Trump as saying things like black people are lazy.

Article 1: Ha. Starting off strong. The meme came from a site and creator who has plenty of anti-Semitic content. The suspension of disbelief is strong with you if you think it was just coincidence that the star was six pointed.

Article 2: I guess you agree with this?

Article 3-6: He's consistently applauding the strong arm tactics of authoritarians. There's no white washing that.

Article 7: Yes, because the KKK kept and published their membership we should be able to find it all. I'll admit though, that this is the one that is impossible to prove without further evidence.

Articles 8, 9, 11: It doesn't seem relevant that there is a significant amount of white supremacy and anti-semitic speech coming from his official and unofficial supporters?

Article 10: Ok, you don't like that? How about this quote “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.”

"LAZINESS IS A TRAIT IN BLACKS."

from this book: http://www.amazon.com/Trumped-Inside-Trump-His-Cunning-Spectacular/dp/067173735X

please rationalize this quote.

1. https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/592910662424223744
   
   
2. http://www.amazon.com/Trumped-Inside-Trump-His-Cunning-Spectacular/dp/067173735X