I brought the guy in to work for me it turns out he didn't know that much about what he was doing. In an interview with Playboy Magazine in 1999, Trump said, "The stuff O'Donnell wrote about me is probably true. Trump is a racist and a touch anti-Semitic” ( here). The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day” ( here).Ī New York Times article from the time said the book “implies that Mr. In his 1991 book “Trumped!: The Inside Story of the Real Donald Trump-His Cunning Rise and Spectacular Fall,” former Trump employee John O’Donnell alleged that Trump had described laziness as “a trait in blacks” and once told him, “I've got black accountants at Trump Castle and at Trump Plaza. So we’ll leave it at that,” he said, referring to one of the prosecutors in the case.ĪCCUSATIONS OF RACISM AND ANTI-SEMITISM IN JOHN O’DONNELL’S BOOK (1991) If you look at Linda Fairstein and if you look at some of the prosecutors, they think that the city should never have settled that case. In June 2019, when the case received renewed attention due to a Netflix miniseries on the subject called “When They See Us,” Trump was asked by a reporter outside the White House whether he would apologize to the five men for the ad he had put out 30 years prior ( here). BRING BACK OUR POLICE!”, Trump wrote, “I want to hate these muggers and murderers.They should be forced to suffer and, when they kill, they should be executed for their crimes” ( here).Īccording to the New York Times, Black clergy leaders in response put out a full-page ad condemning Trump’s ad as a ''thinly veiled racist polemic'' and saying Trump was trying to divide the city into “them” versus “us” ( here).
In the ad, whose headline reads “BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY. The city of New York paid the exonerated men, who were imprisoned for between five and 13 years, $40 million in 2014 ( here). Their convictions were overturned in 2002, after another man confessed to the crime and DNA tests confirmed his guilt. All five of the men were Black or Hispanic, while the victim was white. The case raised questions about race as a factor in the criminal justice system. On May 1, 1989, after five young men between the ages of 14 and 16 were named as suspects in the brutal rape of a female jogger in New York City’s Central Park, Donald Trump spoke out about the case and took out a full-page ad in several city newspapers calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty ( here). We settled the suit with zero, with no admission of guilt” ( here).ĪDS PROMOTING THE DEATH PENALTY DURING THE “CENTRAL PARK FIVE” CASE (1989) And we, along with many, many other companies throughout the country - it was a federal lawsuit - were sued. “Two former Trump employees, a husband and wife who rented properties, were quoted in court documents as saying they were told that the company wanted to rent only to ‘Jews and Executives’ and ‘discouraged rental to blacks,’” according to the Washington Post’s in-depth account of the case ( here).ĭuring a presidential debate with Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in September 2016, Clinton brought up the racial discrimination case, to which Trump responded, "Yes, when I was very young, I went into my father's company - had a real estate company in Brooklyn and Queens. Provided by the University of Michigan Law School, the case profile is available here. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division in 1973 to file a suit that became one of the era’s largest discrimination cases. Released by the FBI in 2017, hundreds of pages of notes surrounding the investigation can be found here.
At the time, Donald Trump was the company’s president while his father, the late Fred Trump, was chairman.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigated alleged racial discrimination in housing units owned by Trump Management Co. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SUES THE TRUMP MANAGEMENT CORPORATION FOR VIOLATING THE FAIR HOUSING ACT (1973)
Trump has repeatedly denied accusations of racism. The following fact-check article looks at seven moments between 19 in which Trump was criticized for racism at the time. Other posts sharing the meme can be found here, here and here. Liked over 20,000 times on Instagram, a meme showing Trump posing with three prominent African American figures, civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, boxing promoter Don King and boxer and activist Muhammad Ali, says “Funny how no one thought Trump was a racist until he ran for president and got elected” ( here). Social media posts claiming that Trump did not face criticism on this front until the 2016 election cycle are false. Before former President Donald Trump launched his first presidential campaign in summer 2015, critics had publicly accused him of making remarks and taking actions they regarded as racist.