Some say no. He just cares about the law or national security, or making deals, it's not racial.
You can't help but notice, though, that most of the countries he says are screwing us are non-white countries. You have Mexico, Japan, China, etc.
Not many white countries get mentioned.
Then again he has an awful lot of racists and anti Semites supporting him. Is it his fault who supports him? Yesterday my own father tried this piece of sophistry on me.
Suffice it to say, it turned into a testy dinner as I did not let this one pass. Supposedly this was to celebrate his birthday, my birthday, and Mother's Day all that occurred in May.
His trouble is he says he doesn't want to talk about politics. Then he talks about politics. Then why I disagree with him-he doesn't want to talk about politics.
But the vexing question is why do these racists and bigots support Trump as opposed to say, Hillary Clinton?
My Dad thinks that Trump did disavow David Duke. That's not what I saw. I saw a nod-nod, wink-wink. It was enough signal to let these guys know he hears them.
But the question begs-if 9 out of 10 white nationalists and neo nazis love Donald Trump, why is this? Again, why don't they vote for Hillary Clinton? Or any other mainstream politician.
Let me just offer this disclaimer. My father won''t vote for Trump. Not when the time comes for it. He had talked about voting for Trump in the primary but when my mother got to him and made sure he pulled for Hillary.
But if he's saying things like this, you can imagine what others are saying. After all Pop has never voted Republican since he's been in this country.
There's the saying 'Some of my best friends are Jewish.' Some of Trump's best friends are racists, white nationalists, and anti Semites.
Like Roy Cohn. Peter Manso tells of his sitting next to Donald Trump as a young reporter at a dinner party of rich Right Wingers. Trump and Roy Cohn go way back:
"So far I hadn’t engaged, really, hanging back as I usually would do early on in a reporting assignment, but that changed when we all sat down to eat. Cohn had put me beside Trump. Back then he was years away from becoming The Donald, but he was already the boyish-faced real estate mogul, habitué of Le Cirque and staple of Page Six. In the weeks that followed this dinner, I would learn more and more about his unusually close relationship with Cohn—a relationship crucial to understanding each of them."
"The two met in 1973 when Trump, then 27, and his father were being sued by the Justice Department for housing discrimination. Cohn counter-attacked, accusing the federal prosecutors of using “Gestapo-like tactics.” Later, Cohn secured for Trump massive tax abatement deals from the city for Trump Tower and even introduced Trump to Roger Stone, Richard Nixon’s dirty trickster who’s currently The Donald’s in and out chief braintruster. Cohn was legally indispensable but socially indispensable, too, introducing Trump to nightclub owners, media heavyweights and underworld figures. And, of course, there were the politicos, which included most of the city’s major elected officials and a handful of New York City judges who were said to be at Cohn’s beck and call 24/7. His win-at-any-cost style, brashness and love for the spotlight made an impact on the younger Trump."
"Trump was sitting to my left, Ivana opposite us, beside Cohn, the others seated around the table, and all of them, I gathered, friends for years. Di Portanova (a.k.a. “Ricky the Playboy” if you read the tabs) was a Cohn client as well."
"Things got off to a happy start with the perennially tanned Cohn playing toastmaster: There was a toast to Ronald Reagan, the still very new president, and another to Alfonse D’Amato, the rookie senator from New York. Then Cohn introduced me as “the Playboy man in our midst,” which obliged me to rise and take a bow. When he finally sat down, the food was served by two of Cohn’s office boys who, I’d already heard through the grapevine, were, as a group, Cohn’s lovers; one of whom our genial host openly addressed as “Saboo.” Why Saboo? Because, as I later found out from Roy himself, the dark skinned Filipino fit “the profile.”
"Was Cohn a racist? Of course. Roy Cohn was an anti-Semite, a homophobe, a woman hater and of course an anti-Communist. He harbored a bundle of thinly concealed prejudices that he’d trot out whenever one or more of them worked for him, whenever they were useful. What else is new?"
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-2016-dinner-party-213923#ixzz4AAfDhitm
Just because Trump's close friend Cohn is a virulent racist, just because his butler-and Mar Lago historian-is a racist who wants to see Hillary and Obama hung-just because he has racist policies...
Just because he has stated that he will only consider a white male VP, just because his trade and immigration policies are racist, just because he keeps a copy of Hitler's speeches locked in a cabinet by his bed.
Just because David Duke and many other white nationalists support him, just because his supporters threatened Ben Shapiro and even his family with anti Semtic rants about putting them in the ovens....
I mean surely this doesn't in any way suggest Donald Trump could be a racist?! No, that's just way too big a reach.
You can't help but notice, though, that most of the countries he says are screwing us are non-white countries. You have Mexico, Japan, China, etc.
Not many white countries get mentioned.
Then again he has an awful lot of racists and anti Semites supporting him. Is it his fault who supports him? Yesterday my own father tried this piece of sophistry on me.
Suffice it to say, it turned into a testy dinner as I did not let this one pass. Supposedly this was to celebrate his birthday, my birthday, and Mother's Day all that occurred in May.
His trouble is he says he doesn't want to talk about politics. Then he talks about politics. Then why I disagree with him-he doesn't want to talk about politics.
But the vexing question is why do these racists and bigots support Trump as opposed to say, Hillary Clinton?
My Dad thinks that Trump did disavow David Duke. That's not what I saw. I saw a nod-nod, wink-wink. It was enough signal to let these guys know he hears them.
But the question begs-if 9 out of 10 white nationalists and neo nazis love Donald Trump, why is this? Again, why don't they vote for Hillary Clinton? Or any other mainstream politician.
Let me just offer this disclaimer. My father won''t vote for Trump. Not when the time comes for it. He had talked about voting for Trump in the primary but when my mother got to him and made sure he pulled for Hillary.
But if he's saying things like this, you can imagine what others are saying. After all Pop has never voted Republican since he's been in this country.
There's the saying 'Some of my best friends are Jewish.' Some of Trump's best friends are racists, white nationalists, and anti Semites.
Like Roy Cohn. Peter Manso tells of his sitting next to Donald Trump as a young reporter at a dinner party of rich Right Wingers. Trump and Roy Cohn go way back:
"So far I hadn’t engaged, really, hanging back as I usually would do early on in a reporting assignment, but that changed when we all sat down to eat. Cohn had put me beside Trump. Back then he was years away from becoming The Donald, but he was already the boyish-faced real estate mogul, habitué of Le Cirque and staple of Page Six. In the weeks that followed this dinner, I would learn more and more about his unusually close relationship with Cohn—a relationship crucial to understanding each of them."
"The two met in 1973 when Trump, then 27, and his father were being sued by the Justice Department for housing discrimination. Cohn counter-attacked, accusing the federal prosecutors of using “Gestapo-like tactics.” Later, Cohn secured for Trump massive tax abatement deals from the city for Trump Tower and even introduced Trump to Roger Stone, Richard Nixon’s dirty trickster who’s currently The Donald’s in and out chief braintruster. Cohn was legally indispensable but socially indispensable, too, introducing Trump to nightclub owners, media heavyweights and underworld figures. And, of course, there were the politicos, which included most of the city’s major elected officials and a handful of New York City judges who were said to be at Cohn’s beck and call 24/7. His win-at-any-cost style, brashness and love for the spotlight made an impact on the younger Trump."
"Trump was sitting to my left, Ivana opposite us, beside Cohn, the others seated around the table, and all of them, I gathered, friends for years. Di Portanova (a.k.a. “Ricky the Playboy” if you read the tabs) was a Cohn client as well."
"Things got off to a happy start with the perennially tanned Cohn playing toastmaster: There was a toast to Ronald Reagan, the still very new president, and another to Alfonse D’Amato, the rookie senator from New York. Then Cohn introduced me as “the Playboy man in our midst,” which obliged me to rise and take a bow. When he finally sat down, the food was served by two of Cohn’s office boys who, I’d already heard through the grapevine, were, as a group, Cohn’s lovers; one of whom our genial host openly addressed as “Saboo.” Why Saboo? Because, as I later found out from Roy himself, the dark skinned Filipino fit “the profile.”
"Was Cohn a racist? Of course. Roy Cohn was an anti-Semite, a homophobe, a woman hater and of course an anti-Communist. He harbored a bundle of thinly concealed prejudices that he’d trot out whenever one or more of them worked for him, whenever they were useful. What else is new?"
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-2016-dinner-party-213923#ixzz4AAfDhitm
Just because Trump's close friend Cohn is a virulent racist, just because his butler-and Mar Lago historian-is a racist who wants to see Hillary and Obama hung-just because he has racist policies...
Just because he has stated that he will only consider a white male VP, just because his trade and immigration policies are racist, just because he keeps a copy of Hitler's speeches locked in a cabinet by his bed.
Just because David Duke and many other white nationalists support him, just because his supporters threatened Ben Shapiro and even his family with anti Semtic rants about putting them in the ovens....
I mean surely this doesn't in any way suggest Donald Trump could be a racist?! No, that's just way too big a reach.
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