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rbrnmw

(7,160 posts)
Wed Aug 24, 2016, 02:46 PM Aug 2016

There’s Just One Flaw in Donald Trump’s New Plan to Show He’s Not Racist

Two weeks ago, the New York Times reported that Donald Trump’s focus groups found voters frequently use two words to describe their candidate: “unqualified” and “racist.” This assessment, while encouragingly on-point, presents a serious obstacle to the Trump campaign. And so, it has set out to mitigate this liability with “a full-fledged strategy to court black and Latino voters,” reports the Washington Post.

The main difficulty Trump faces in dispelling the impression that he is a racist is that Trump is, in fact, a gigantic racist. His first appearance in the New York Times came in the context of his being caught refusing to rent apartments to African-Americans. A former Trump employee has detailed a series of private racist statements and acts — saying “laziness is a trait in blacks,” objecting to black people working for him in accounting, his staff shooing black people off the casino floor when he arrived. Trump has replied that the comments were “probably true,” but berated the person who made them as a “loser.” He has questioned the legitimacy of President Obama’s birth certificate, called him a “terrible student,” and implied he only made it into Harvard Law School due to affirmative action.



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There’s Just One Flaw in Donald Trump’s New Plan to Show He’s Not Racist (Original Post) rbrnmw Aug 2016 OP
He still has to trick people into voting for him. louis-t Aug 2016 #1
Hey there is a picture of him under the entry of the word racist in the dictionary Person 2713 Aug 2016 #2
And that flaw is Pakid Aug 2016 #3

louis-t

(23,747 posts)
1. He still has to trick people into voting for him.
Wed Aug 24, 2016, 03:01 PM
Aug 2016

He still has to trick people into believing he's not a racist. His whole life is a scam.

Person 2713

(3,263 posts)
2. Hey there is a picture of him under the entry of the word racist in the dictionary
Wed Aug 24, 2016, 03:09 PM
Aug 2016

Serious obstacle

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