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The Bizarre Claim About Trump Being “Racist.”

Judge John Wilson (ret.) provided this article exclusively to the New York Analysis of Policy and Government.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

                                                                                                                        Mark Twain      

There are certain lies spread by the majority of the media, particularly those that favor the Democratic party.  One of the most pernicious is the claim that President Donald Trump is either a racist, or supports white supremacy.  This falsehood has no support in reality.  However, this has not stopped commentators from CNN, the New York Times, CBS News, and other left-leaning media outlets from repeating this lie.

Donald Trump met the Reverend Al Sharpton in the 1980’s.  Though Sharpton claims the two were “never close,”  according to Greg Richter at Newsmax, “National Review quotes a 2004 article in The Guardian in which Sharpton, then running for president himself, said he considered…Donald Trump, as a political supporter.'”  Richter also states that “a source close to Sharpton (says) that Trump gave Sharpton ‘anywhere between $20,000 and $150,000’ for his National Youth Movement, which became the National Action Network, and for his activism.” 

Then there is Trump’s relationship with the Reverend Jesse Jackson.  Paul Bois writes in The Daily Wire that “(b)ack in 1998 and 1999, Trump worked with Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH coalition to help offer a way to get African Americans into corporate America and improve their communities through building projects and jobs. Jackson praised Trump’s savvy business aplomb not once, but twice… (a)t another event a year later, Jackson introduced his ‘friend’ and thanked Trump for giving blacks a ‘face’ on Wall Street.” 

Both Sharpton and Jackson have called Trump a “racist” in more recent years.  Yet, neither appears to have had this view of Donald Trump before he was elected president.

In August of 2016, shortly before the election, the New York Times published a piece insinuating that Donald Trump and his family had discriminated against African Americans by refusing to rent apartments to black tenants at Trump properties.  “(A)s Donald J. Trump assumed an increasingly prominent role in the business,” the article states, “the company’s practice of turning away potential black tenants was painstakingly documented by activists and organizations that viewed equal housing as the next frontier in the civil rights struggle.” 

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But according to Alberto Martinez of the New Standard Press, “(b)y 1974, the DOJ had collected accusations (formal, informal, and hearsay) by 43 accusers (named and unnamed) against 38 employees (out of hundreds) of Trump Management in 20 properties (out of 39), during 14 years. Three of them blamed Fred Trump. None of the 43 accusers blamed Donald Trump; there’s no evidence that he created or carried out discriminatory policies. In 1975, the Trumps began policies of affirmative action renting…(f)inally, the DOJ closed the case for ‘lack of evidence’ or new complaints.” 

While The Times admits this was the outcome of the investigation, they continue to support the lie refuted by the facts –  “While there is no evidence that Mr. Trump personally set the rental policies at his father’s properties, he was on hand while they were in place, working out of a cubicle in Trump Management’s Brooklyn offices as early as the summer of 1968.” 

How old was Donald Trump in 1968?  22 years old.  Did young Donald have control of the company?  No.  Did a single complainant identify Donald Trump as having discriminated against them?  No.  Yet, if you follow the logic of the New York Times, if you work for a company that is accused of racist policies, even if an investigation finds no wrongdoing, you still must be a racist.

This tautology has been used throughout the Trump Presidency.  In 2017, when a group of alleged “white nationalists” protested the removal of a Confederate statute in Charlottesville, Virginia a group of “counter-protestors” fought with the original protestors.  In condemning the violence, President Trump made these remarks:  “we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence. It has no place in America. And as I have said many times before, no matter the color of our skin, we all live under the same laws, we all salute the same great flag and we are all made by the same almighty God…(r)acism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs including neo Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.” 

Yet, it has repeatedly been reported that President Trump refused to condemn “white supremacy” and praised white supremacists as “fine people.”  For instance, in commenting on Joe Biden’s statement on the riot, CNN reported as follows; “The former vice president entered the race with a video that…chose to highlight the President’s reaction to white supremacists’ August 2017 march in Charlottesville and the killing of a counter-protester.  Trump responded to the violence by claiming there were ‘very fine people on both sides.’  ‘With those words, the President of the United States assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it,’ Biden said in his announcement video.” 

The Report concludes tomorrow.

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