Tonight, Hinderaker is indignant that the NYT has told the truth about Trump’s literally lifelong affair — with racism — and its cousin, all whyte supremacist themes.
Hinderaker claims falsely that the handful of examples he cites… are not evidence of racism. I won’t bother with those examples.
I don’t need them.
Hinderaker’s wrong (the Times‘ examples do prove racial animus) — but there are far more cogent examples that he neglects here (because, apparently the Times didn’t expound on these others at any length). To wit:
Recall that during the opening moments of his term as president, Trump said a judge born in Indiana could not treat his case (on Muslim Ban 1.0) fairly, because the USDC Judge was “Mexican”. The Indiana born judge had a Latin surname, and a whyte mother.
Recall that Trump, in 2018, told a crowd (regarding AOC, then a sitting House Rep, from NY) “send her back to Puerto Rico!” She was born here. He demonized her for… her ethnicity.
Recall further, that just three weeks ago, at one of his campaign rallies, he invoked Hitler — saying that the southern border asylum seekers are coming to “poison our blood”. Of course he’s referring to whyte blood, being “corrupted” by various brown / Latinx peoples. Not racist — eh, John?!
Okay, then… recall that in over 30 years, across more than 7,000 apartments in NYC (a deep melting pot city!) — Trump and his father had only ever rented to one Black person. This led to a settlement, with the federal and NY Civil Rights Commissions. To date, it appears that — in a city of over nine million people (with up to 20 per cent being people of color — and about 15 per cent of those being very high income people of color) Trump’s properties are less than one per cent occupied by people of color.
So, perhaps in the 2020s, sensible people of color don’t want him as a landlord (based on the above and below) — true. But for over forty years, he’s regularly dismissed even very high income tenants — primarily if… they are people of color. Not racist, Hinderaker?
Recall that he has never apologized for being dead wrong about the Central Park jogger attack case — having called for the death penalty (right after arrests, but on no evidence) for five young Black men who — for 15 years now it has been definitively established — these young men had nothing to do with the attack on a female jogger.
Recall that there is an audiotape (played in bankruptcy court in Delaware in the early 2000s) of Trump saying, after a Black male accountant for the Organization left the room in his Atlantic City casino (the one that went bankrupt!)… that he didn’t want any “Black guys” handling his money. He only “wanted Jews” handling his money. [He was referring to the Jewish, long time CFO of his Organization — who, BTW, is now in jail, and has testified against him in the NY AG’s civil Tax- and Lending- frauds cases.]
I could go on for about… forty paragraphs — but the 50 years of recorded evidence plainly… speaks for itself.
And Hinderaker well-knows it.
He is trying (impotently, I might add) to mitigate the size of Trump’s coming loss, in the ’24 general election.
Nothing else.
What a malign soul he is.
Out.
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