Trump: "Black people are too stupid to vote for me"

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02 Nov 2018, 10:22 pm

Michael Cohen Says Trump Repeatedly Used Racist Language Before His Presidency - As he awaits sentencing, Trump’s former lawyer says that he wants to clear his conscience and warn voters about what he sees as the president’s true nature in advance of the midterm elections.

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... During our conversation, Cohen recalled a discussion at Trump Tower, following the then-candidate’s return from a campaign rally during the 2016 election cycle. Cohen had watched the rally on TV and noticed that the crowd was largely Caucasian. He offered this observation to his boss. “I told Trump that the rally looked vanilla on television. Trump responded, ‘That’s because black people are too stupid to vote for me.’” (The White House did not respond to multiple requests for comment.)

This conversation, he noted, was reminiscent of an exchange that the two men had engaged in years earlier, after Nelson Mandela’s death. “[Trump] said to me, ‘Name one country run by a black person that’s not a s**thole,’ and then he added, ‘Name one city,’” Cohen recalled, a statement that echoed the president’s alleged comments about African nations earlier this year. (White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders denied those comments at the time. She added that “no one here is going to pretend like the president is always politically correct—he isn’t.” She subsequently noted that it was “one of the reasons the American people love him.”)

Cohen also recounted a conversation he had with Trump in the late 2000s, while they were traveling to Chicago for a Trump International Hotel board meeting. “We were going from the airport to the hotel, and we drove through what looked like a rougher neighborhood. Trump made a comment to me, saying that only the blacks could live like this.” After the first few seasons of The Apprentice, Cohen recalled how he and Trump were discussing the reality show and past season winners. The conversation wended its way back to the show’s first season, which ended in a head-to-head between two contestants, Bill Rancic and Kwame Jackson. “Trump was explaining his back-and-forth about not picking Jackson,” an African-American investment manager who had graduated from Harvard Business School. “He said, ‘There’s no way I can let this black f-g win.’” (Jackson told me that he had heard that the president made such a comment. “My response to President Trump is simple and Wakandan,” he said, referring to the fictional African country where Black Panther hails from. “‘Not today, colonizer!’”) ...



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02 Nov 2018, 11:02 pm

Cohen should get together with Roseanne Barr's ex-husband who has a secret tape of Trump making racist remarks.



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03 Nov 2018, 2:15 am

Reverse Psychology ...

I'll show TRUMP who's stupid .. and actually vote for him. :P


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03 Nov 2018, 8:58 am

Every time I think Trump has sunk as low as possible, he sinks even lower.



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03 Nov 2018, 9:40 am

Fnord wrote:
Every time I think Trump has sunk as low as possible, he sinks even lower.

You're just going to believe Cohen? Really? A convicted fraudster?



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03 Nov 2018, 9:42 am

Drake wrote:
Fnord wrote:
Every time I think Trump has sunk as low as possible, he sinks even lower.
You're just going to believe Cohen? Really? A convicted fraudster?
You’re going to believe Trump? Really? An openly racist, sexist, draft-dodging, tax-evading, lying sack of shite?



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03 Nov 2018, 9:52 am

Fnord wrote:
Drake wrote:
Fnord wrote:
Every time I think Trump has sunk as low as possible, he sinks even lower.
You're just going to believe Cohen? Really? A convicted fraudster?
You’re going to believe Trump? Really? An openly racist, sexist, draft-dodging, tax-evading, lying sack of shite?

It doesn't work that way. If Trump were to fire back with some stuff about Cohen I wouldn't believe it either. Neither can be trusted, so neither's word alone is going to make me believe them.



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03 Nov 2018, 4:19 pm

Yep.

I think it's pretty obvious to anyone with the internet or TV that trump is not just a nationalist, but a white nationalist. In a few days we'll find out of the American people vote to begin a healing process both at home and abroad, or if they double down on white supremacy as a catalyst for a possible race war. The world hopes & prays for the former.


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03 Nov 2018, 10:31 pm

I guess there's no pardon coming for Cohen.


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03 Nov 2018, 11:14 pm

Drake wrote:
Fnord wrote:
Every time I think Trump has sunk as low as possible, he sinks even lower.

You're just going to believe Cohen? Really? A convicted fraudster?


Ye, Cohen is a dishonest fraudster. But what does that say about Trump, who Cohen had worked for years and years?


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04 Nov 2018, 6:27 am

goldfish21 wrote:
Yep.

I think it's pretty obvious to anyone with the internet or TV that trump is not just a nationalist, but a white nationalist. In a few days we'll find out of the American people vote to begin a healing process both at home and abroad, or if they double down on white supremacy as a catalyst for a possible race war. The world hopes & prays for the former.


'White nationalism' is a term which was popularized by Don Black, neo-Nazi founder of Stormfront, as a more socially acceptable euphemism for White supremacy; similar to their trading in their Klan robes and swastikas for white polo shirts and khakis. I propose that we don't participate in Fascist's attempt to re-brand themselves into something more genteel and palatable, but insist upon calling it precisely what it is; White supremacy, and them precisely what they are; racists.
Words matter.