Donald Trump Jr. got thoroughly schooled on his father’s overt racism
As people watch the Democratic caucuses to see who might emerge as a natural candidate to oppose Donald Trump at the next election, billionaire businessman Mike bloomberg has been on a back burner.
Despite the face that he hasn’t come out top yet, it’s clear that Trump is very intimidated, and has been making comments like this.
Mini Mike Bloomberg is a LOSER who has money but can’t debate and has zero presence, you will see. He reminds me of a tiny version of Jeb “Low Energy” Bush, but Jeb has more political skill and has treated the Black community much better than Mini! https://t.co/qIef5VhjDr
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 13, 2020
His reference to the black community is the upshot of a leaked recording of Bloomberg talking about the stop and search policy in the African-American communities.
Donald Trump Jr. took the opportunity to share the recording.
Omg! Leaked audio of Mike Bloomberg talking about the high crime rates among urban minorities.
“And the way to get the guns out of the kids hands is to throw them up against the wall and frisk them” #BloombergIsARacist pic.twitter.com/MkONUhQQpX
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) February 11, 2020
We definitely won’t argue that it’s not racist, but we can’t help noticing that there’s more than a bit of this going on.
Senior adviser to Mike Bloomberg’s campaign, Tim O’Brien, stepped in to point out the problem with mini-Trump’s post.
The following 20 tweets will leave you needing mind-bleach.
1.
1/x: Omg! Your father is the most overt and flagrantly hateful racist and bigot of the modern presidency and nothing – absolutely nothing – in Mike Bloomberg’s background puts him in the same category as your dad. But let us count the ways:https://t.co/QdlKVOffGx https://t.co/dzm6DzPKRw
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) February 11, 2020
2.
2/x: Your dad and his father, Fred, ran a housing business that the Justice Department censured in 1973 for discriminating against prospective tenants of color.
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) February 11, 2020
3.
3/x: Jack O’Donnell, a senior executive at your dad’s Atlantic City casinos during the 1980s, described him as someone whose “prejudices didn’t stop at the color of one’s skin. Everyone was subject to judgment. It could be their ethnicity, their gender, their religion.’”
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) February 11, 2020
4.
4/x: O’Donnell also described Trump as picky about who handled his cash back then. “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.”
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) February 11, 2020
5.
5/x: When he was running his casino business, your dad paid for a series of newspaper and broadcast ads that sought to brand a potential competitor seeking a gambling license — a Native American tribe, the Mohawks — as drug dealers and criminals.
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) February 11, 2020
6.
6/x: Your mom, Ivana Trump, told her lawyer during your parents divorce that your dad kept a copy of Hitler’s collected speeches by his bedside in Trump Tower. When a reporter questioned your dad about the book in 1990, he balked and then said it was a gift.
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) February 11, 2020
7.
7/x: Your dad embraced birtherism in 2011 and falsely asserted that President Barack Obama was born overseas and had forged his birth certificate.
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) February 11, 2020
8.
8/x: While the Trump University lawsuit was being litigated, your dad publicly claimed one of the judges hearing the case, Gonzalo Curiel, was biased because of his Mexican heritage. Curiel was born in the U.S.
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) February 11, 2020
9.
9/x: Your dad has often been reluctant to distance himself from white supremacists like the former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) February 11, 2020
