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Undated: Racial views of Donald Trump
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_views_of_Donald_Trump
  
-- 2016 --
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January 23: Inside the government’s racial bias case against Donald Trump’s company, and how he fought it
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-governments-racial-bias-case-against-donald-trumps-company-and-how-he-fought-it/2016/01/23/fb90163e-bfbe-11e5-bcda-62a36b394160_story.html?utm_term=.076f9e3e235f


September 20: Donald Trump said African-Americans are in the worst shape they've been in "ever, ever, ever," apparently disregarding centuries of black oppression in America.
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/trump-blacks-in-worst-shape-ever-769894467985?v=raila&


December 2: Jeff Sessions’s comments on race: For the record
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/12/02/jeff-sessionss-comments-on-race-for-the-record/?utm_term=.977c90a80ac7

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April 20: At the end of a lengthy exchange [about Judge Curiel], Tapper asked: "If you are saying he cannot do his job because of his race, is that not the definition of racism?"

"No, I don't think so at all," Trump said.
http://gantdaily.com/2017/04/20/judge-whose-mexican-heritage-trump-denigrated-will-hear-deportation-case/

May 27: "It [racist rants and vitriol] means that America is back where it was ... decades ago. That kind of thing went out of fashion with the Civil Rights movement; the Trump campaign [and presidency] brought it back into fashion..."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/26/us/racist-rants-viral-videos/?iid=ob_lockedrail_topeditorial

August 12: "The violence and deaths in Charlottesville strike at the heart of American law and justice. When such actions arise from racial bigotry and hatred, they betray our core values and cannot be tolerated," Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement.
http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-biden-charlottesville-white-supremacy-rally-2017-8

August 12: [Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer]: “Today, in 2017,” ... “we are ...  seeing a cowardly parade of hatred, bigotry, racism, and intolerance march” in the hometown “of the architect of our Bill of Rights.”
https://pilotonline.com/news/nation-world/virginia/chanting-blood-and-soil-white-nationalists-with-torches-march-on/article_6bc3b5cd-a5a6-5e23-81ae-694fc1856b4a.html

August 12: "We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides — on many sides," Trump said at a press conference from his New Jersey golf course.

"It's been going on for a long time in our country. Not Donald Trump, not Barack Obama. This has been going on for a long, long time," he continued. 
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/346329-trump-condemns-violence-and-hatred-on-many-sides


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August 13: Politicians from all sides have rounded on Donald Trump for failing explicitly to condemn white supremacy groups or use the term domestic terrorism after a woman was killed when a car smashed into anti-racism protesters at the weekend. The US Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into the death.

On Saturday the president condemned hatred and violence “on many sides” in his remarks, but did not directly single out the white supremacists, whose attempt to hold a major rally in Charlottesville, Virginia resulted in the governor, Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, calling a state of emergency. Disorder including clashes with counterprotesters left more than 30 injured.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/13/civil-rights-inquiry-for-charlottesville-rally-death

August 15: In a press conference on Tuesday, the president of the United States appeared to equate white supremacist marchers with counterprotesters who recently clashed in Charlottesville, Va.

"I think there is blame on both sides," he said, going on to take aim at what he called the "alt-left." "What about the fact they came charging with clubs in hands, swinging clubs. Do they have any problem? I think they do. As far as I'm concerned, that was a horrible, horrible day."


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The remarks were the latest in the administration's continued response to a weekend of protests that included torch-wielding protesters chanting racist messages including, "Jews will not replace us." The confrontations between rally-goers and counterprotesters led to one woman's death.
https://www.npr.org/2017/08/15/543463673/trumps-fuzzy-history-of-denouncing-white-nationalism

August 16:
President Trump's personal lawyer on Wednesday forwarded an email to conservative journalists, government officials and friends that echoed secessionist Civil War propaganda and declared that the group Black Lives Matterhas been totally infiltrated by terrorist groups.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/us/politics/trump-lawyer-email-race-charlottesville.html


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August 14: We need to stop acting like Trump isn’t pandering to white supremacists ... When Trump has a chance to condemn white supremacy, he panders to it instead.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/13/16140504/trump-charlottesville-white-supremacists

August 14: President Donald Trump called out the KKK, neo-Nazis and other hate groups in response to the deadly violence in Charlottesville, after criticism that his initial response to the tragedy was insufficient and cast the clashes as a matter of political equivalence.

Speaking from the Diplomatic Room at the White House, Trump said that hatred and bigotry “has no place in America,” while labeling racism as “evil.”

“Racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans,” Trump said
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http://variety.com/2017/biz/news/trump-kkk-neo-nazis-charlottesville-1202526738/


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August 14: An infamous neo-Nazi website has been evicted from its home on the Internet after a violent white nationalist rally drew fresh attention to hate speech in the United States.

The web hosting company GoDaddy, which has been criticized for months for hosting the Daily Stormer, announced late Sunday that “they have 24 hours to move the domain to another provider, as they have violated our terms of service.”

Sure enough, the Daily Stormer’s front page was shortly replaced with a drawing of a dead whale and an error message: “We’re having an outage.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/14/godaddy-bans-neo-nazi-site-daily-stormer-for-disparaging-woman-killed-at-charlottesville-rally/?utm_term=.5461c826f076

August 14: CEOs Of Merck, Under Armour And Intel Resign From Trump's Business Council ... Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier was the first to announce his resignation followed by Under Armour's Kevin Plank and Intel's Brian Krzanich.


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In a statement on his resignation, Frazier said, "America's leaders must honor our fundamental values by clearly rejecting expressions of hatred, bigotry and group supremacy, which run counter to the American ideal that all people are created equal."

Hours after Frazier resigned, Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank also said he was stepping down from the council. Plank's company had faced a backlash earlier this year over his support of Trump.

And then, the CEO of computer chip maker Intel announced he would also leave the group. Brain Krzanich in a blog post wrote that while he urged leaders to condemn "white supremacists and their ilk," many in Washington "seem more concerned with attacking anyone who disagrees with them."
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/14/543384974/merck-ceo-resigns-from-a-trump-business-council-citing-his-conscience


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August 15: There was a storm of negative reaction to President Trump's news conference Tuesday in which he said both the white supremacists and counter-protesters were responsible for the violence that broke out in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday. 

Among two voices that spoke out loudly in defense of the president's remarks: Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke and white supremacist figurehead Richard Spencer. 

"Thank you President Trump for your honesty & courage to tell the truth about #Charlottesville & condemn the leftist terrorists in BLM/Antifa," Duke tweeted after the news conference. 
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/08/15/david-duke-reaction-trump-news-conference/570517001/

On Twitter: No place for racial hatred or extremism in @USMC. Our core values of Honor, Courage, and Commitment frame the way Marines live and act.
August 15
@GenRobertNeller (Commandant, U.S.Marine Corps)


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August 15:  Obama’s response to Charlottesville violence is the most liked tweet in Twitter’s history ... retweeted more than 1.1 million times and liked 2.723 million times as of Tuesday evening.

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion … People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love … For love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite,” Obama said, quoting former South African president Nelson Mandela
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/08/15/obamas-response-to-charlottesville-violence-is-one-of-the-most-popular-in-twitters-history/?utm_term=.d9048a4e9bfa

August 16: Presidents George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush denounce racism in Charlottesville
https://www.abc2news.com/news/national/presidents-george-hw-bush-george-w-bush-condemn-trumps-charlottesville-statements


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On Twitter: The Army doesn't tolerate racism, extremism, or hatred in our ranks. It's against our Values and everything we've stood for since 1775.
August 16
@ArmyChiefStaff  (Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. Mark Milley)

On Twitter: I stand with my fellow service chiefs in saying we're always stronger together-it's who we are as
August 16
@GenDaveGoldfein (Air Force General)

On Twitter:
I stand with my fellow Joint Chiefs in condemning racism, extremism & hatred. Our diversity is our strength.
August 16
@ChiefNGB (Chief of the National Guard Bureau Joseph Lengyel)

August 16: "America must always reject racial bigotry, anti-Semitism, and hatred in all forms ... we are all created equal and endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights," ... "We know these truths to be everlasting because we have seen the decency and greatness of our country."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/16/politics/george-h-w-bush-george-w-bush-charlottesville-statement/index.html

August 16:
President Trump's personal lawyer on Wednesday forwarded an email to conservative journalists, government officials and friends that echoed secessionist Civil War propaganda and declared that the group Black Lives Matterhas been totally infiltrated by terrorist groups.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/us/politics/trump-lawyer-email-race-charlottesville.html


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August 17: The author of a racially charged email forwarded by President Trump’s lawyer said he sent the message in hopes it would help Trump defend his response to Charlottesville, and give the president fodder to go further in condemning groups on the left.

“I wanted to help him. This whole political bread and circuses needs to stop,” Jerome Almon told The Washington Post. “Black Lives Matter is just as racist as the Nazis or the KKK or anyone else.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/conspiracy-theorist-says-he-wanted-to-help-trump-with-email-blasting-black-lives-matter/2017/08/17/f1369100-8334-11e7-ab27-1a21a8e006ab_story.html?utm_term=.bb98b73181d7

August 17: John Dowd, who leads the president’s legal team, forwarded an email that among other things, argued there no difference between Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and George Washington, according to The New York Times, which published excerpts of that email.

The original author of the email, whose subject line was “The information that validates President Trump on Charlottesville,” is Jerome Almon, who runs several websites that promote conspiracy theories, said The Times.

The email rattles off similarities between Lee and Washington — both owned slaves, both “rebelled against the ruling government” and both “saved America.” And neither man is different from other historic figures such as Napoleon, Shaka Zulu, Alexander the Great or Ramses II.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/no-difference-between-robert-e-lee-and-george-washington-says-email-forwarded-by-trumps-lawyer-2017-08-17


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August 17: Trump said at a Tuesday news conference that white supremacists and Ku Klux Klan members were not entirely to blame for the violent turn of events in Charlottesville on Saturday, where a counterprotester was killed and 19 were injured. Trump’s comments — and his reluctance to back off from those statements — have led to a political backlash.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/conspiracy-theorist-says-he-wanted-to-help-trump-with-email-blasting-black-lives-matter/2017/08/17/f1369100-8334-11e7-ab27-1a21a8e006ab_story.html?utm_term=.bb98b73181d7

August 17: Speaking on Tuesday, the same day that Mr. Trump was being assailed for his response to the Charlottesville protests, Mr. [Steve] Bannon ... dismissed the right-wing fringe as “a collection of clowns.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/us/politics/bannon-alt-right-trump-north-korea.html?action=click&contentCollection=us&module=NextInCollection&region=Footer&pgtype=article&version=newsevent&rref=collection%2Fnews-event%2Fdonald-trump-white-house

August 15: A local New Mexico Republican Party leader resigned Tuesday after publishing a Facebook post criticsizing "'violent, leftist protesters," the day after a woman was killed when clashes erupted at a right-wing rally.

Do-a Ana County Republican Party Chairman Roman Jimenez took to the group's official Facebook page on Sunday to publish a post saying "violent, leftist protesters" are "getting exactly what they asked for."
http://www.wral.com/new-mexico-gop-official-quits-after-slamming-violent-leftist-protesters/16882967/

August 15: New Mexico GOP official [Doña Ana County Republican Party Chairman Roman Jimenez] quits after slamming "violent leftist' protesters


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But Dominic Pacheco, communications director of the Republican Party of New Mexico, told CNN that the party “takes a firm stand against hate,” and said the party’s “thoughts and prayers are with the Charlottesville victims and families during this hard time.”

State GOP Chairman Ryan Cangiolosi issued a statement echoing Pacheco’s words. “The Republican Party of New Mexico fully repudiates the statement made by Roman Jimenez, which does not reflect the views of the Republican Party of New Mexico or the Republican Party of Doña Ana County,” the statement said.
https://gantdaily.com/2017/08/15/new-mexico-gop-official-quits-after-slamming-violent-leftist-protesters/

August 14: “I am seriously considering a pardon for Sheriff Arpaio [the former Arizona sheriff found guilty last month of criminal contempt for violating the terms of a 2011 court order in a racial profiling case, Fox News reported on Monday.],” Trump told Fox News on Sunday at his country club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

The White House had no official announcement concerning Arpaio for now, a spokeswoman said on Monday.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-arizona-arpaio-trump/trump-says-he-may-pardon-arizona-ex-sheriff-arpaio-fox-news-idUSKCN1AU21E

August 14: "President Trump would be literally pardoning Joe Arpaio’s flagrant violation of federal court orders that prohibited the illegal detention of Latinos," said Cecillia Wang, ACLU deputy legal director and one of the plaintiffs' attorneys. "He would undo a conviction secured by his own career attorneys at the Justice Department. Make no mistake: This would be an official presidential endorsement of racism.”
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2017/08/14/trump-seriously-considering-pardon-arpaio/565583001/


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August 16: In a rare move, top commanders in the US military are speaking out in the wake of the deadly violence that erupted at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend.   Five US Joint Chiefs are issuing public condemnations of white supremacist groups in the wake of the weekend’s racial unrest.
https://newswirepost.com/2017/08/16/a-rare-condemnation-from-top-military-brass/

August 18: The Cleveland Clinic, the American Cancer Society and American Friends of Magen David Adom have all axed plans for galas at Trump's private Mar-a-Lago club.

It will be the first time in eight years that the Cleveland Clinic has not held its fundraiser at the resort in South Florida ....

The cancellations follow the spectacular implosion of Trump's business councils this week over the president's comments that drew a moral equivalence between white supremacists and left-wing protesters.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/17/news/companies/cleveland-clinic-trump-mar-a-lago/index.html


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August 17: Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, using a bobblehead doll and a signature “terminate” line, issued a powerful response to the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, last week, saying exactly what President Donald Trump wouldn’t after white supremacists and neo-Nazis rallied together to promote anti-Semitism and bigotry. ... “The country that defeated Hitler’s armies is no place for Nazi flags,” Schwarzenegger said on behalf of the president, represented by a Trump bobblehead. “The party of Lincoln won’t stand with those who carry the battle flag of the failed Confederacy.” 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/arnold-schwarzenegger-trump-nazis_us_5996524ce4b0a2608a6b68ac

August 18: Schwarzenegger to Trump:  “There are not two sides to bigotry. There are not two sides to hatred.”
https://www.thequint.com/social-buzz/2017/08/18/charlottesville-violence-schwarzenegger-says-what-trump-should-have

August 18: Kal Penn, more resign White House arts committee ... Another presidential advisory committee is breaking up.

Actor Kal Penn, artist Chuck Close and the entire membership of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities have announced their resignation. A letter dated Friday, and signed by 16 of 17 committee members, cited the “false equivalence” of President Donald Trump’s comments about last weekend’s “Unite the Right” gathering in Charlottesville, Virginia.
http://fox8.com/2017/08/18/kal-penn-more-resign-white-house-arts-committee/


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August 18: Some of the biggest-named charities in America are walking away from President Trump.

The American Red Cross, The Salvation Army and Susan G. Komen foundation all said Friday they're canceling events at Trump's Palm Beach property Mar-a-Lago. That comes after three organizations made similar announcements on Thursday.
https://www.abc2news.com/news/national/charities-including-red-cross-salvation-army-cancel-events-connected-to-trump

August 18: The Palm Beach Police Foundation said it would still host its annual black-tie dinner dance at the [Mar-a-Lago] club on January 6, 2018, citing its deposit and the size of the venue.

The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts confirmed it will host a wine auction at the club on Feb. 1.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/18/news/companies/trump-mar-a-lago-fundraisers/index.html

August 18 [from August 15 statement]: "I think there is blame on both sides," the president said at a ... press conference ... "You had a group on one side that was bad. You had a group on the other side that was also very violent. Nobody wants to say that. I’ll say it right now."

"What about the ‘alt-left’ that came charging at, as you say, the ‘alt-right’?" he said. "Let me ask you this: What about the fact they came charging—that they came charging with clubs in their hands, swinging clubs? Do they have any problem? I think they do."
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/aug/18/trump-says-lindsey-graham-lied-about-trumps-charlo/


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August 17: South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham: “President Trump took a step backward by again suggesting there is moral equivalency between the white supremacist neo-Nazis and KKK members who attended the Charlottesville rally and people like Ms. Heyer,” ... "I, along with many others, do not endorse this moral equivalency."
http://www.weeklystandard.com/trump-goes-after-graham-and-flake-on-twitter/article/2009338

August 19: Another Palm Beach, Florida, charity announced Saturday that it was canceling plans to hold a gala at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club – the ninth to cancel a big-ticket charity event at the club this week.
https://www.denverpost.com/2017/08/19/trump-mar-a-lago-club-loses-charity-event/

August 19: "Publicity seeking Lindsey Graham falsely stated that I said there is moral equivalency between the KKK, neo-Nazis & white supremacists and people like Ms. Heyer. Such a disgusting lie," Trump said in a series of Aug. 17 tweets.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/aug/18/trump-says-lindsey-graham-lied-about-trumps-charlo/

August 18: Graham said. "... because of the manner in which you have handled the Charlottesville tragedy you are now receiving praise from some of the most racist and hate-filled individuals and groups in our country.

"For the sake of our Nation — as our President — please fix this," he continued. "History is watching us all."
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/aug/18/trump-says-lindsey-graham-lied-about-trumps-charlo/


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August 16: The opponents of removing Confederate statues from public places have often made the argument that the monuments are meant as a symbol of the supposed heritage of the South, not as symbols of racial prejudice or hatred. However, the history of when most of these monuments were erected demonstrates quite clearly that this is a lie.
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/the-confederate-monuments-are-clearly-about-hate-not-heritage/

August 16: The first spike [in erection of Civil War monuments] is around 1900. That's 35 years after the end of the Civil War.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/16/us/confederate-monuments-backlash-chart-trnd/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist

August: In just one year, the alt right has gone from relative obscurity to being one of the United States' most visible extremist movements. This stratospheric rise is due in large part to the rhetoric employed during the 2016 presidential campaign, which granted implicit approval to the once-taboo hallmarks of the far right – overt racism, anti-Semitism, xenophobia, misogyny, and anti-Muslim bigotry.

The alt right capitalized on the moment by amplifying those messages while loudly rejecting mainstream conservatism and its followers (often referred to as “cucks”).

You can’t discuss the alt right without mentioning the “alt lite,” a loosely connected movement of right-wing activists who reject the overtly white supremacist ideology of the alt right, but whose hateful impact is more significant than their “lite” name suggests. The alt lite embraces misogyny and xenophobia, and abhors “political correctness” and the left.
https://www.adl.org/education/resources/backgrounders/from-alt-right-to-alt-lite-naming-the-hate


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August 17: The Confederate General commemorated by the statue at the heart of the deadly Charlottesville violence would actually have wanted it removed, historians have claimed.

In a 1866 letter to fellow Confederate Gen. Thomas L. Rosser, [General Robert E.] Lee wrote, "As regards the erection of such a monument as is contemplated, my conviction is, that however grateful it would be to the feelings of the South, the attempt ... would have the effect of ... continuing, if not adding to, the difficulties under which the Southern people labour."
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/robert-e-lee-was-against-erecting-confederate-memorials-historians-claim-a3613836.html


[Undated - 1866]: All I think that can now be done, is to aid our noble & generous women in their efforts to protect the graves & mark the last resting places of those who have fallen, & wait for better times.
http://leefamilyarchive.org/papers/letters/transcripts-UVA/v076.html

August 23: For years, the presidential conference calls were a nonpartisan holiday tradition: President Barack Obama would speak by phone with hundreds of rabbis in advance of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, in what participants described as a meeting of minds, largely free of raw politics.


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But that emerging tradition was thrown into jeopardy on Wednesday, in a sign of the still-intensifying backlash against President Trump’s response to the violence this month in Charlottesville, Va.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/23/us/rabbis-president-trump-antisemitism.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

August 23: Four coalitions of rabbis, hailing from different strains of American Judaism, publicly spurned Mr. Trump [over the Charlottesville issue], denouncing him in unusually pointed language, and pre-emptively announcing that they would not participate in any conference call before the Jewish holidays next month.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/23/us/rabbis-president-trump-antisemitism.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

August 24: A charity confirmed Thursday that it’s pulling its fundraiser out of President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club.

LIFE’s 24th annual Lady in Red gala will be held Jan. 5 at The Breakers, instead of Dec. 2 at President Trump’s club.

Lois Pope, who described herself recently as a Trump loyalist, has hosted her Lady In Red gala at The Mar-a-Lago Club for almost all of its 24 years.
http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/local/life-lady-red-charity-gala-confirms-move-from-mar-lago/gxlUk1SGtFMcJCZQVhM2qM/


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August 24: Seven members of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council, which includes Obama appointees, resigned this week, citing Trump’s Charlottesville response and other issues.
http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/playbook/2017/08/24/scoop-andy-hemming-out-at-wh-trumps-heated-calls-with-senators-the-juice-perry-bringing-family-and-friends-on-trip-abroad-risa-heller-drops-kushner-cos-as-a-client-jay-solomons-new-job-222038

August 24: THE RNC’S RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE passed a resolution Wednesday at its summer meeting in Nashville condemning KKK/white supremacists. The full RNC will vote on it Friday ....
http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/playbook/2017/08/24/scoop-andy-hemming-out-at-wh-trumps-heated-calls-with-senators-the-juice-perry-bringing-family-and-friends-on-trip-abroad-risa-heller-drops-kushner-cos-as-a-client-jay-solomons-new-job-222038

August 26: [Joe] Arpaio, who was sheriff in Maricopa County, Arizona, until last year, was found guilty of criminal contempt last month for disregarding a court order in a racial-profiling case. His sentencing had been scheduled for October 5.

"Not only did (Arpaio) abdicate responsibility, he announced to the world and to his subordinates that he was going to continue business as usual no matter who said otherwise," US District Judge Susan Bolton wrote in a July 31 order finding him guilty.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/25/politics/sheriff-joe-arpaio-donald-trump-pardon/index.html


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August 26: Trump Pardons Joe Arpaio, Who Became Face of Crackdown on Illegal Immigration
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/25/us/politics/joe-arpaio-trump-pardon-sheriff-arizona.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=F7EF5FCDF00EF98FF72C0726DD9C8725&gwt=pay

August 26: US President Donald Trump granted a pardon to a controversial former Arizona law enforcement official less than a month after he was convicted of criminal contempt in a case involving racial profiling.

A White House statement on Friday confirmed the pardon - the first of the Trump administration, of Joe Arpaio.

The 85-year-old, a political ally of the president, was awaiting sentencing on the contempt-of-court conviction at 
a hearing scheduled to take place in October.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/08/trump-pardons-convicted-arizona-sheriff-joe-arpaio-170826041644572.html

August 25: Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) criticized President Trump's decision to pardon former Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Friday, saying he would have preferred that the president "honor" the legal process. 

"Regarding the Arpaio pardon, I would have preferred that the President honor the judicial process and let it take its course," Flake wrote on Twitter. 
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/348069-flake-on-arpaio-pardon-i-would-have-preferred-trump-honor-the-judicial


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August 25: On the heels of Trump’s controversial decision to pardon former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was convicted of criminal contempt, former acting Attorney General Sally Yates issued a response that instantly went viral.

"With his pardon pen, POTUS reveals his own contempt for our Constitution, our courts, and our founding principles of equality and justice."
http://verifiedpolitics.com/sally-yates-just-broke-internet-response-trumps-arpaio-pardon/

August 26: U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) released the following statement today on President Trump’s pardon of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio:

“No one is above the law and the individuals entrusted with the privilege of being sworn law officers should always seek to be beyond reproach in their commitment to fairly enforcing the laws they swore to uphold. Mr. Arpaio was found guilty of criminal contempt for continuing to illegally profile Latinos living in Arizona based on their perceived immigration status in violation of a judge’s orders. The President has the authority to make this pardon, but doing so at this time undermines his claim for the respect of rule of law as Mr. Arpaio has shown no remorse for his actions.”
https://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/8/statement-by-senator-john-mccain-on-president-trump-s-pardon-of-joe-arpaio


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August 26: Arpaio, 85, hints at return to politics after pardon from Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/08/26/arpaio-85-hints-at-return-to-politics-after-pardon-from-trump/?utm_term=.f4c4cad57fb6

October 19: George W. Bush delivers clear rebuke, without mentioning Trump by name ... In a speech for the Bush Institute’s Spirit of Liberty event in New York, Bush made bold statements that seemed to be a veiled criticism of the ultra-conservative wing of the Republican Party that has rallied around President Trump.

"We've seen nationalism distorted into nativism," Bush said without directly mentioning Trump. "Bigotry seems emboldened. Our politics seems more vulnerable to conspiracy theories and outright fabrication."

"When we lose sight of our ideals, it is not democracy that has failed. It is the failure of those charged with protecting and defending democracy," he said. 
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/10/19/former-president-george-w-bush-warns-against-politics-bigotry-white-supremacy/780213001/

October 19: "Our identity as a nation – unlike many other nations – is not determined by geography or ethnicity, by soil or blood," Bush said, referencing a Nazi slogan chanted by some protesters in Charlottesville.


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He continued: "Being an American involves the embrace of high ideals and civic responsibility. We become the heirs of Thomas Jefferson by accepting the ideal of human dignity found in the Declaration of Independence. We become the heirs of James Madison by understanding the genius and values of the U.S. Constitution. We become the heirs of Martin Luther King, Jr., by recognizing one another not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-10-19/george-w-bush-talks-white-supremacy-russia-in-speech

November 13: President Donald Trump is nominating white men to America’s federal courts at a rate not seen in nearly 30 years, threatening to reverse a slow transformation toward a judiciary that reflects the nation’s diversity.

So far, 91 percent of Trump’s nominees are white, and 81 percent are male, an Associated Press analysis has found. Three of every four are white men, with few African-Americans and Hispanics in the mix. The last president to nominate a similarly homogenous group was George H.W. Bush.
https://apnews.com/a2c7a89828c747ed9439f60e4a89193e


November 29: Trump's anti-Muslim retweets prompt backlash in Washington: 'The president is racist' ... Deputy DNC chair Keith Ellison, Lindsay Graham and Arizona senator Jeff Flake condemn Trump’s tweeting of anti-Muslim videos posted by far-right group
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/29/trumps-anti-muslim-retweets-prompt-backlash-in-washington-the-president-is-racist


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December 3: The upside to him attacking outspoken black people? We can fight back and declare what America really stands for.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/03/opinion/trump-racist-tweets-blacks.html

December 3: Donald Trump’s racist retweets are offensive to all of us

Britain should withdraw its state visit invitation to Donald Trump in the wake of his sharing of Britain First videos, say 38 political and religious figures. Plus, a warning not to underestimate the far-right group
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/03/donald-trumps-racist-retweets-are-offensive-to-all-of-us

December 15: The past year of research has made it very clear: Trump won because of racial resentment

Contrary to what some have suggested, white millennial Trump voters were not in more economically precarious situations than non-Trump voters. Fully 86 percent of them reported being employed, a rate similar to non-Trump voters; and they were 14 percent less likely to be low income than white voters who did not support Trump. Employment and income were not significantly related to that sense of white vulnerability ... economic anxiety isn’t driving racial resentment; rather, racial resentment is driving economic anxiety.
https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/12/15/16781222/trump-racism-economic-anxiety-study


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December 23: 'The New York Times' Reports that Trump Made Blatantly Racist Statements About Immigrants

Sources say that Trump said Haitian visa holders “all have AIDS” and Nigerians live in “huts.”

The newspaper [NYT] describes an Oval Office meeting in June which found President Trump infuriated at the number of foreigners who had been allowed into the US since his inauguration:

-- More than 2,500 were from Afghanistan, a terrorist haven, the president complained.

-- Haiti had sent 15,000 people. They “all have AIDS,” he grumbled, according to one person who attended the meeting and another person who was briefed about it by a different person who was there.

-- Forty thousand had come from Nigeria, Mr. Trump added. Once they had seen the United States, they would never “go back to their huts” in Africa, recalled the two officials, who asked for anonymity to discuss a sensitive conversation in the Oval Office.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a14491687/new-york-times-trump-racism-immigrants/


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December 27: In 2017, racism not only won the day. It won the year ... a 12-month span that saw America inaugurate a president who ran on a hate-filled platform that denigrated and demeaned anyone who was not a white male. Some would say that another -ism — sexism — was the watchword for 2017 ... the much-needed #MeToo movement, which finally began the process of rightly punishing sexual predators, was the mirror we needed. It showed us that while sexism will be punished going forward, racism will remain the status quo.
http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/solomon_jones/racism-donald-trump-charlottesville-jeff-sessions-travel-ban-20171226.html

December 29: 'If he talks like a racist and tweets like a racist, odds are he's a racist'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5222055/Black-news-site-sums-Trumps-racist-moments-2017.html

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January 2: Here Are 13 Examples Of Donald Trump Being Racist
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-racist-examples_us_56d47177e4b03260bf777e83


January 9: Donald Trump made an appearance at the College Football Playoff national championship game in Atlanta. But when he joined members of the military on the field for the National Anthem before the game, it became clear he couldn't -- or wouldn't fully sing along. At different points, he mouthed some things, smiled painfully, and had his mouth closed.

Even if the President doesn't know every word to the National Anthem, it shouldn't actually be a huge deal -- a song recitation shouldn't be a prerequisite for the presidency. But this particular President has made standing for a song a political issue steeped in racial resentment.
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/09/opinions/donald-trump-college-football-national-anthem-filipovic-opinion/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist


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On Twitter: Trump's guide to diversity
Africa: Array of shithole countries
Haitians: Have AIDS
Nigerians: Live in huts
Puerto Ricans: Lazy
Black Americans: Ingrates
Mexicans: Criminals and rapists
Muslims: Evil terrorists
Women: Treat them like shit

White supremacists: VERY FINE PEOPLE

@shannonrwatts

January 12: Trump's 'shithole' remarks spur international anger ... International organisations including the UN and African Union, politicians and other Africans and Caribbeans are outraged over US President Donald Trump's latest racist remarks.

The president criticised immigration to his country from El Salvador, Haiti and the African continent, by calling the group "shithole countries", according to the US media.

"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?" Trump asked at a meeting with congress members at the White House, reports said on Thursday, citing people with knowledge on the conversation.

Trump suggested the US should instead focus its immigrant entry policy on countries such as Norway. 
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/01/trump-shithole-remarks-spur-international-anger-180112084723204.html


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January 12: MLK’s nephew: Trump isn’t racist, just ‘racially ignorant’
https://nypost.com/2018/01/12/mlks-nephew-trump-isnt-racist-just-racially-ignorant/

January 12: We Must Denounce Trump’s Racist Actions, Not Just His Racist Words ... The victories of the civil-rights movement include Medicaid and reforms to our immigration system. Trump targeted both of these, in one day.
https://www.thenation.com/article/we-must-denounce-trumps-racist-actions-not-just-his-racist-words/

January 12: 'Thanks, but no thanks' - Norwegians reject Trump's immigration offer ...

Many Norwegians rejected on Friday a suggestion by U.S. President Donald Trump that they would be more welcome to move to the United States than immigrants from “shithole countries” such as Haiti or African nations.

The Nordic country, one of the richest in the world by GDP per capita, was last year named the happiest nation on the planet and is known for a cradle-to-grave welfare state funded in part by large reserves of oil and natural gas.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-immigration-norway/thanks-but-no-thanks-norwegians-reject-trumps-immigration-offer-idUSKBN1F11QK


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January 12: Republican senators in Trump meeting say they don't recall 'shithole' comment

A day after President Donald Trump reportedly made highly incendiary comments about immigrants and African countries, two Republican senators said they don't recall those vulgar characterizations from the President.

Republican Sens. Tom Cotton and David Perdue, who've been close allies to the President on the issue of immigration, were in a White House meeting with him Thursday when Trump, according to sources, expressed frustration with people coming to the US from "shithole countries."

... Republican Sen. Tim Scott, the junior senator from South Carolina, told the Charleston Post and Courier that Graham told him the reported comments are "basically accurate."
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/12/politics/senators-trump-comment-tom-cotton/index.html

January 12: President Donald Trump’s already infamous “shithole” comment is among several remarks the commander in chief has made that have energized white supremacists, rights groups fear.

Trump made the comment Thursday in the context of asking why America should accept more immigrants from Haiti and Africa—instead of places like Norway—while discussing a bipartisan immigration deal with lawmakers. The remark reinvigorated accusations that Trump is a racist, and it was embraced online by white supremacists David Duke and Richard Spencer.
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-shithole-comment-white-nationalists-praise-779958


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January 14: America will celebrate the memory of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, as the nation struggles with the recent comments made by President Donald Trump saying that immigrants have been coming into the United States from "shithole countries."

Civil rights leader and Representative John Lewis (D-GA), who joined Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1963 March on Washington, appeared on talk shows Sunday morning to say that King's dream had been shaken and the leader "would not be pleased" with the current state of affairs in America today.
http://www.newsweek.com/mlk-trump-america-john-lewis-781076

January 16: ... this tweet Sunday from The Washington Post's Josh Dawsey, who initially broke the "shithole" story. "White House official told me tonight there is debate internally on whether Trump said 'shithole' or 'shithouse.' Perdue and Cotton seem to have heard latter, this person said, and are using to deny."
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/16/politics/shithole-lying-analysis/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist

January 19: Carl Higbie, who was appointed by President Trump to serve in the federal agency that runs AmericCorps and other volunteer service programs, has resigned his high-level post and apologized after a report emerged quoting racist and anti-Muslim remarks he made in 2013.


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Ranging from callous to provocative and often tipping into bigotry, Higbie's comments were unearthed by CNN's KFile unit, which published audio clips taken from the Internet talk radio program Sound of Freedom, which Higbie hosted, and other sources. In addition to their bigotry, many of the remarks promulgated outright falsehoods.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/19/579111221/carl-higbie-resigns-from-trump-administration-after-bigoted-comments-surface

January 26: Trump Offers Apology For Retweeting Anti-Muslim Videos From British Far-Right Party ... Trump has been in hot water with British Prime Minister Theresa May for retweeting in November anti-Muslim videos that were posted by the deputy leader of the far-right Britain First party.

"Trump said he was sorry for retweeting the anti-Muslim videos which sparked outrage in Britain.

Trump told [host of Good Morning Britain Piers Morgan: 'If you're telling me they're horrible racist people, I would certainly apologize if you would like me to do that.'

Trump told Morgan that he was unaware of who the Britain First group was when he shared three of the far-right party's posts.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/26/580923731/trump-offers-apology-for-retweeting-anti-muslim-videos-from-british-far-right-pa


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January 27: Candidates of color get off the sidelines in the age of Trump: 'The soul of America is at stake right now'

Run For Something, a national group started after the election to recruit and train Democratic candidates, has recruited more than 15,000 potential candidates, according to co-founder Amanda Litman, a former Hillary Clinton campaign staffer. Two-thirds of those candidates are women, and one-third identify as persons of color. 
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/27/politics/candidates-of-color-age-of-trump/index.html

February 1: 'Kicking Off Black History Month,' Trump Guts CFPB's Ability to Curb Racial Discrimination by Banks

"These changes threaten effective enforcement of civil rights laws and increase the likelihood that people will continue to face discriminatory access and pricing as they navigate their economic lives."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/02/01/kicking-black-history-month-trump-guts-cfpbs-ability-curb-racial-discrimination


February 12: Sessions invokes 'Anglo American heritage' of sheriff's office ... Sessions said in remarks at the National Sheriffs Association winter meeting ... "The office of sheriff is a critical part of the Anglo-American heritage of law enforcement."

"We must never erode this historic office," Sessions continued.

Invoking "Anglo-American heritage" seems to have been an impromptu decision by the attorney general. A written version of the remarks says that Sessions was supposed to say: "The sheriff is a critical part of our legal heritage."


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The concept of the office of sheriff -- being an independent, elected law enforcement entity -- originates in Anglo-Saxon England. The word "sheriff" combines the Anglo-Saxon words "shire," meaning "county," and "reeve," meaning "guardian," Cato analyst David Kopel notes in The Washington Post.
https://www.abc15.com/news/national/sessions-invokes-anglo-american-heritage-of-sheriffs-office

February 12: Jeff Sessions Just Said Slavery Caused the Civil War. That’s an Outrageous White Supre—Oh, Wait, That’s Actually Right

Jeff Sessions, who is named indirectly for Confederate president Jefferson Davis, has some interesting opinions about U.S. history and race. He once implied that monuments to the Confederacy were something all Americans should be proud of; he issued a fond statement about segregationist George Wallace when Wallace died. He’s praised a eugenics-based 1924 immigration law that restricted the entrance of various nonwhite individuals into the U.S. and allegedly once joked affectionately about the KKK. On Monday morning, even, he made a remark about English common law that seemed to suggest sympathy with the ’50s-era “states’ rights” case against the civil rights movement. And other members of the administration Sessions is a part of have, of course, done their part to promote interpretations of history favored by literal white supremacists.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/jeff-sessions-on-slavery-lincoln-and-the-civil-war-non-outrageous.html


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March 5: the reason he is no longer a Trump staffer is because a series of racist posts were discovered in the archives of his Facebook page, including one in which he referred to Al Sharpton’s daughter using the n-word, and another in which he called Barack Obama a “Socialist Marxist Islamo Fascist Nazi Appeaser.” His firing was kind of ironic given his boss’s own history of racist remarks about the 44th president
https://www.spin.com/2018/03/ex-trump-aide-sam-nunberg-was-unhinged-long-before-todays-meltdown/

March 27: Fact-checking Tucker Carlson on diversity in America

Wrong on the key specifics. And even more wrong on the larger meaning.

That's the dual bottom line on the extraordinary screed last week against diversity in general, and immigration in particular, from Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/27/politics/fact-checking-tucker-carlson-on-diversity-in-america/index.html


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April 9: For at least a year, the biggest page on Facebook purporting to be part of the Black Lives Matter movement was a scam with ties to a middle-aged white man in Australia, a review of the page and associated accounts and websites conducted by CNN shows.

The page, titled simply "Black Lives Matter," had almost 700,000 followers on Facebook, more than twice as many as the official Black Lives Matter page. It was tied to online fundraisers that brought in at least $100,000 that supposedly went to Black Lives Matter causes in the U.S. At least some of the money, however, was transferred to Australian bank accounts
http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/09/technology/fake-black-lives-matter-facebook-page/index.html

April 17: Memphis took down two Confederate statues. State lawmakers are punishing the city for it
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/18/us/memphis-statues-retaliation-trnd/index.html

April 18: President Trump on Wednesday attacked California Gov. Jerry Brown over sanctuary laws, accusing him of not protecting the border with Mexico and saying “there is a Revolution going on in California.”

“Soooo many Sanctuary areas want OUT of this ridiculous, crime infested & breeding concept,” Trump tweeted early Wednesday.
https://nypost.com/2018/04/18/trump-brown-creating-breeding-concept-in-sanctuary-cities/


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April 19: Jorge Ramos on Trump Sanctuary City 'Breeding' Tweet: "Cannot Normalize" His "Racist Remarks"

"This is not the first time in which President Trump has made racist remarks when he said that Mexican immigrants were criminals and rapist, that's a racist remark, when he said that Judge Gonzalo Curiel couldn't do his job simply because of his Mexican heritage, that's a racist remark. And when he said that people from Haiti and Africa nations were from S-hole countries, that's a racist remark. So, this is just -- one more, the problem that I see Anderson is that, this is becoming normal," Ramos said ...
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/04/19/jorge_ramos_on_trump_sanctuary_city_breeding_tweet_cannot_normalize_his_racist_remarks.html

May 30: There were a few different ways President Donald Trump could have gone with his response to the firing of Roseanne Barr by ABC after the comedian made a racist comment about former Obama administration official Valerie Jarrett.

He could have:
1. Condemned Roseanne for her views
2, Supported her as a victim of the liberal media and the PC police
3. Made it about himself

Surprise! He went with option three
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/30/politics/trump-roseanne-analysis/


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June 15: President Donald Trump stunned his fellow world leaders at the G7 meeting when he said he would ship “25 million” Mexicans to Japan, which would result in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe losing his next election.

During the gathering in Quebec — which ended with Trump leaving early and refusing to sign the traditional joint communique — the president was talking about what he called Europe’s immigration problem when he turned his attention to the Japanese leader.

“Shinzo, you don’t have this problem, but I can send you 25 million Mexicans and you’ll be out of office very soon,” Trump said, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a senior EU official who was in the room.
https://nypost.com/2018/06/15/trump-told-shinzo-abe-hed-ship-25-million-mexicans-to-japan/


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August 10: Trump's tactic to attack black people and women: insult their intelligence

Analysis shows Trump consistently targets African Americans and women with ‘dumb’ and ‘low IQ’ jibes
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/10/trump-attacks-twitter-black-people-women

August 23: How Trump talks about race ... President Donald Trump’s long history with race is complicated.

He is a man who was accused of racial discrimination multiple times at his businesses but who used his Mar-a-Lago resort to smash white-only membership policies in Palm Beach, Florida.

He was among the loudest voices attacking the legitimacy of the nation’s first black president, but launched one of the most public Republican efforts in modern history to reach out to the African-American community.

He has a Jewish daughter and grandchildren, yet left Jews out of a Holocaust remembrance statement.

He fired a longtime aide for using a racial epithet, but secretly funded ads that associated Native Americans with drug use and crime. And he has repeatedly called Mexicans rapists and criminals while insisting that he loves them.


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While Trump’s actions have landed on both sides of racial currents, his public record depicts a man who most often moves in one direction: overlooking racial sensitivity and concerns in the name of fighting “political correctness.” That’s something his base likes, but also something that has caused him problems within his party and with voters at large.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/every-moment-donald-trumps-long-complicated-history-race

August 31: Do We Know What Racism Is?

According to a recent Quinnipiac University poll, almost half of the country thinks Donald Trump is a racist. Critics of Trump point to the numerous statements and incidents that would seem to be obvious examples of racism. Yet defenders of Trump argue that he is not racist, with some asserting that you can’t prove what is in someone’s heart. This is an earnest, if not convenient, defense that ultimately is unprovable. We can’t literally know what is in Trump’s heart, or anyone else’s heart for that matter. We can only go by words and actions, and even these are subject to different interpretations. 
https://news.utexas.edu/2018/08/31/do-we-know-what-racism-is/


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September 24: [From "why do people love -or hate- Trump? Here Are The 20 Top Reasons "]

8. He says he’s not a racist.
Which is, of course, why he calls Mexicans rapists and says “the blacks” love him. He even had the gall to claim he’s the least racist person you’ll ever meet. Well, the proof is in the pudding—Hispanics overwhelmingly voted against him, and he only got 8 percent of the black vote. Don, you can pretend you love “the blacks” all you want, but what’s crystal clear is that the love is not reciprocated.

https://thoughtcatalog.com/jeremy-london/2018/07/why-do-people-hate-trump/

September 25: Maurice Symonette has become a political celebrity thanks to Donald Trump's staff, which has repeatedly given the ex-member of Miami's deadly Yahweh ben Yahweh cult prime seats behind the president at nationally televised rallies to show off his "Blacks for Trump" signs. But Symonette recently told a bankruptcy court that he's dead broke, raising the question of who's been paying for his recent trips to rallies from Arizona to Tampa.

Now a federal judge has banned one of Trump's most visible black supporters from bankruptcy court for five years and accused him of repeatedly abusing the system.
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/blacks-for-trump-founder-maurice-symonette-banned-from-bankruptcy-court-for-abusing-system-10764071


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October 25: New Jersey high school soccer coach calls police after parents shout 'Speak English' at Hispanic players
https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-jersey-high-school-soccer-coach-calls-police-after-parents-shout-speak-english-at-hispanic-players-report

November 2:
Cohen told Vanity Fair the comment came during a conversation he had with Trump following his return from a campaign rally during the 2016 election cycle

Cohen noticed that the crowd was mostly Caucasian and told Trump of his observation.

“I told Trump that the rally looked vanilla on television,” Cohen said. “Trump responded, ‘That’s because black people are too stupid to vote for me.’”
https://nypost.com/2018/11/02/michael-cohen-trump-said-black-people-are-too-stupid-to-vote-for-me/

November 3: A white supremacist group that targeted Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum with racist robocalls is now targeting Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.

The prerecorded phone message features a voice impersonating Oprah Winfrey, who was in Georgia on Thursday stumping for Abrams, and contains racist and anti-Semitic rhetoric.

The robocall went out to Georgia voters, but it is unclear how many received it.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/racist-robocall-targets-stacey-abrams-oprah-in-georgia-governors-race/ar-BBPighm


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November 3:

The total price of President Trump’s military deployment to the border, including the cost of National Guard forces that have been there since April, could climb well above $200 million by the end of 2018 and grow significantly if the deployments continue into next year, according to analyst estimates and Pentagon figures.

The deployment of as many as 15,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border — potentially equal in size to the U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan — occurs as the budgetary largesse the military has enjoyed since Trump took office looks set to come to an end.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump%E2%80%99s-border-deployments-could-cost-dollar200-million-by-year-end/ar-BBPhYCP

November 5: Trump On Racist Ads: A Lot Of Things Are Offensive, Like Reporters’ Questions

The president was asked whether found an anti-immigration ad that Fox, CNN, and NBC pulled to be offensive.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-racist-ads-reporters-questions-offensive_us_5be0951ee4b09d43e321bc70

November 7: President Donald Trump on Wednesday denied having ever made racist remarks and accused a reporter who asked about his campaign trail rhetoric of posing a "racist question."

PBS "NewsHour" reporter Yamiche Alcindor asked the president on Wednesday about comments he made at a rally in October, where he labeled himself a nationalist. Alcindor pointed out that some interpreted the comment as embracing white nationalists, but Trump sharply turned the question back on her.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/07/trump-reporter-racist-question-972745


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November 13: Trump says he's not a racist. That's not how white nationalists see it
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/12/politics/white-supremacists-cheer-midterms-trump/index.html


December 11: Jury Recommends Life Plus 419 Years in Prison for Charlottesville Rally Murderer

The judge reportedly accepted the jury’s recommendations, but Fields will not formally be sentenced until March.
http://fortune.com/2018/12/11/life-sentence-charlottesville-rally-james-alex-fields-jr-heather-heyer/

December 14: Fox News Host Tucker Carlson Says Immigration Is Making America ‘Dirtier’

Carlson ranted against those who want to admit the world’s poor “even if it makes our own country poorer, and dirtier, and more divided.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tucker-carlson-immigrants-doing-to-america_us_5c136ca1e4b0f60cfa27dbaf

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January 25: Best-selling author Michael Eric Dyson had harsh words for President Donald Trump as he spoke of the “resurgence” of white supremacy at a Martin Luther King Jr. cultural dinner at Illinois State University on Friday.

Dyson spoke of white privilege in a question-and-answer session with students and faculty, saying the Charlottesville riots and debates over confederate monuments show white supremacy is on the rise.

“I don’t think it dies out with generations, I think it’s recrudescent and resurgent,” Dyson said. “I think it reasserts itself.”
http://www.wglt.org/post/dyson-isu-white-supremacy-sees-resurgence-under-


February 21:
Steve King says he has 'nothing to apologize for' after racist comments
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/21/steve-king-no-apology-racist-comments-1179706 trump-0#stream/0


May 22: Last Monday, 10 days ahead of the E.U. elections, that hard line received a pre-election boost, when President Donald Trump welcomed Orban to the White House. Trump told him in the Oval Office that “you have been great with respect to Christian communities, you have really put up a block up” against non-Christian immigrants.
http://time.com/5590134/hungary-foreign-minister-interview/

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