citizens of this country, to go back to where they came from and this weekend he targeted congressman elijah cummings calling his baltimore district, which to be clear, has lots of different areas, affluent, not affluent, and like many cities, and, yes, world counties, too, some struggling, a disgusting rat- and rodent-infested mess. leaving one of the most well-liked members of congress in either party a bully and a racist. these attacks are full of irony, trump should be patient zero for his wife s be best campaign, trump and his father owned a housing complex just outside of baltimore. according to a 2017 book by washington post reporters michael kranish and mark fisher, trump s father was served w ed an arrest warrant in 1976 for housing people in poor conditions. just a year earlier the trump family business had settled a housing discrimination lawsuit in new york city for having rejected black renters. these days, according to numerous reports, trump s son-in-law and presiden
these attacks are full of irony, and not the irony that trump should be patient zero for his wife s be best campaign, trump and his father owned a housing complex just outside of baltimore. according to a 2017 book by washington post reporters michael kranish and marc fisher, trump s father was served with an arrest warrant in 1976 for housing people in poor conditions. just a year earlier the trump family business had settled a housing discrimination lawsuit in new york city for having rejected black renters. these days, according to numerous reports, trump s son-in-law and presidential adviser, jared kushner, owns lots of baltimore-area apartments, some of which are infested with mice and not exactly great places for economically struggling people to live. although, to be fair, for other news reports, mar-a-lago and the trump tower grill in new york city have been found to have infestation problems, too, so the trump family might just be equal opportunity bad landlords. after get
than appear to be in charlottesville. but i want to go back to something, to respond to something paris said before. he said the president of the united states condemned david duke and condemned racism and white supremacists. but not quite. he had plenty of opportunity to do it immediately, and he did not. he hedged on david duke when it happened. he hedged on charlottesville when it happened. when he read from a statement that was prepared for him that no one really believed was sincere, you could just tell by his body language, those were nice words. but when he had the opportunity to freelance and say how he really felt, that s when fine people on both sides came out. the problem is the president had not been definitive on his condemnation of these kinds of people, which is what has led to 57% of the american people believing he s a racist. he s trafficked in this his entire career, whether it was the housing discrimination lawsuit in the 70s, whether it was comments he made that w
at all, if this was something completely made up, don t you think the republicans in the room would have gotten together and immediately come out and defended him and say we were all there. and that s not what happened. and all of us who have watched donald trump over the arc of his entire career, know damn well that s what he said. he s made no apology for saying things that were racially insensitive in the past, all the way back to his time at the housing discrimination lawsuit that the justice department brought in the 70s. the times when he was sued for racial discrimination in the casinos for black and female dealers in atlantic city. the list is long. and cnn has done a good job of reminding people the things he has done that have been racist. paul ryan admitted it was textbook racism when he made the comment about judge curia about