Subj : Re: Demagogue Definition
To   : Nick Andre
From : Alan Ianson
Date : Sat Sep 12 2020 02:17 pm

> We know Trump lies about some things, no different than any past
> President. But I've also politely asked you to specifically prove racist
> things Trump has said or done, unless this is all just an act to obtain troll
> status.

Since you insist he's a couple examples, the first from years ago.

The Justice Department sued his company - twice - for not renting to black people.

When Trump was serving as the president of his family's real estate company, the Trump Management Corporation, in 1973, the Justice Department sued the company for alleged racial discrimination against black people looking to rent apartments in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island.

The lawsuit charged that the company quoted different rental terms and conditions to black rental candidates than it did with white candidates, and that the company lied to black applicants about apartments not being available. Trump called those accusations "absolutely ridiculous" and sued the Justice Department for $100 million in damages for defamation.

Without admitting wrongdoing, the Trump Management Corporation settled the original lawsuit two years later and promised not to discriminate against black people, Puerto Ricans or other minorities. Trump also agreed to send weekly vacancy lists for his 15,000 apartments to the New York Urban League, a civil rights group, and to allow the NYUL to present qualified applicants for vacancies in certain Trump properties.

Just three years after that, the Justice Department sued the Trump Management Corporation again for allegedly discriminating against black applicants by telling them apartments weren't available.

Here's another more recent one.

He claimed a judge was biased because "he's a Mexican."

Trump implied that Gonzalo Curiel, the federal judge presiding over a class action against the for-profit Trump University, could not fairly hear the case because of his Mexican heritage.

"He's a Mexican," Trump told CNN of Curiel. "We're building a wall between here and Mexico. The answer is, he is giving us very unfair rulings -- rulings that people can't even believe."

Curiel, it should be noted, is an American citizen who was born in Indiana. And as a prosecutor in the late 1990s, he went after Mexican drug cartels, making him a target for assassination by a Tijuana drug lord.

"Claiming a person can't do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment," House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said in a reaction to Trump's comments.

These and so many more are the reason I believe Trump is a racist.

> Janis puts on an excellent act, almost has it down to a science.

Why do you bring Janis into this?

> You must have a slightly better arguement than replying with "Google it" or
> little snippets of widely disproven / out-of-context Youtube clips.

Most times I simply put my reasons in my own words and the fews clips I provided were not "out of context" or "disproven".

You are free to believe whatever you like, based on fact or not.

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