YES HE IS A RACIST--He's told us and shown us. The Trump files [View all]

**How a Racist President Is Trying To Woo Black Voters And A Reminder of How We Got Here**

1. Trump ally held an event at which they were handing out cash to black attendees.--trying to show that African Americans like free stuff--i am sure there are lots and lots of photos

2. Trump campaign Super Bowl ad that featured the release of Alice Marie Johnson, a 64-year-old black grandmother from Mississippi, who was convicted and sentenced==the ad had numerous lies

3. The ad touted Trump’s support for the criminal justice reform bill passed by Congress. But that had nothing to do with Johnson’s release, which was the result of a presidential commutation.

4. **Trump was able to sign the criminal justice reform bill because Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell obstructed a similar bill from passing during Obama’s presidency.**

5. While Trump lauds his support for criminal justice reform, his Department of Justice limited the number of inmates who might benefit from it.

6. **Trump ruled on only 204 clemency requests — 24 approvals and 180 denials. That is the slowest pace in decades.-yet he acts like he is some sort of orange savior shouting from the mountain top--he did find the time to first pardon racist extrodinaire sheriff Joe Arpaio, who had been a vocal Trump supporter--Joe Arpaio played a big giant role in the birtherism skit--flying people to hawaii to harrass city and county executives about Obama's birth certificate--LET THIS SINK IN--THE FIRST PERSON TRUMP PARDONED--Vowed To Keep Pushing Birtherism IN 2018 https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/28/597523854/senate-candidate-joe-arpaio-vows-to-keep-pushing-birtherism**

7. 2011: **Trump argued that Obama wasn’t a good enough student to have gotten into Columbia or Harvard Law School**, and demanded Obama release his transcripts. Trump claimed, “I heard that President Obama was a terrible student.**OBAMA WAS HEAD OF THE HARVARD LAW REVIEW-- THE HIGHEST STUDENT POSITION AT HARVARD LAW SCHOOL--HE WAS THE FIRST BLACK STUDENT ELECTED TO THAT ROLE--HARVARD WAS ESTABLISHED 388 YRS AGO IN 1636**

8. Trump administration made it easier for banks to reject loans for people of color https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/trump-seeking-roll-back-housing-desegregation-rules-discrimination-fair-act-2020-1-1028848036

9. AND When African Americans do get approved--Trump tried to Make Mortgages More Expensive for Minorities https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/09/donald-trump-fannie-mae-freddie-mac

10. In a meeting with lawmakers in the Oval Office in January 2018, Trump argued against restoring protections for immigrants from Haiti and African nations, describing them as “shithole countries,”

11. Trump have failed to disavow the Ku Klux Klan in late February 2016 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/02/29/donald-trump-marco-rubio-david-duke-ku-klux-klan/81101906/

12. Some of his top advisers and cabinet picks have histories of prejudice --Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist and senior counselor, was executive chairman of Breitbart, a news site that Bannon dubbed the “home of the alt-right

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

14. Workers at Trump’s casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey, have accused him of racism over the years. The New Jersey Casino Control Commission fined the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino $200,000 in 1992 because managers would remove African-American card dealers at the request of a certain big-spending gambler. A state appeals court upheld the fine.

15. “When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor,”

16. Trump disparaged his black casino employees as “lazy” in vividly bigoted terms

17. Trump nominated Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to be attorney general of the United States. The Senate refused to confirm Sessions as a federal judge in 1986 amid accusations that he’d made racially insensitive comments

18. Steve Mnuchin Treasury secretary, faces allegations of profiting from racial discrimination. , Mnuchin purchased a troubled mortgage bank, sped up its foreclosure rate. Along the way, Mnuchin’s bank came under fire from housing rights groups for racist practices like lending to very few people of color and maintaining foreclosed-upon properties in neighborhoods that were predominantly black and brown less than in white neighborhoods.

19. There were nearly 900 hate incidents across the U.S. in the 10 days following the 2016 election, a report released by the Southern Poverty Law Center found. In nearly 40 percent of those incidents, the SPLC found, people explicitly invoked the Trump's name or his campaign slogans

20. He condoned the beating of a Black Lives Matter protester--At a November 2015 campaign rally in Alabama, Trump supporters physically attacked an African-American protester after the man began chanting “Black lives matter.” Video of the incident shows the assailants kicking the man after he has already fallen to the ground.

21. He questioned whether President Obama was born in the United States--for almost a decade and has not provided any evidence he claimed to have had

22. He encouraged the mob justice that resulted in the wrongful imprisonment of the Central Park 5.--he continues to appeal to mob justice even after the central park five were found to be innocent by DNA evidence

23. Al Sharpton blasted Trump for holding no events on MLK Day https://www.newsweek.com/insult-american-people-al-sharpton-trump-mlk-day-events-1299344

24. Trump suggests financing for historically black colleges may be unconstitutional https://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/05/trump-historically-black-colleges-financing-unconstitutional-238061

25. African Americans had higher income prior to the Trump administration. A black household earned median income of $40,258 in 2017, the latest data available. That’s below a 2000 peak of $42,348, according to the Census Bureau https://apnews.com/f78f4205f474482db8bb8fa7a5ebfa27

26. The most dramatic drop in black unemployment came under Obama, when it fell from a recession high of 16.8 percent in March 2010 to 7.8 percent in January 2017 --its currently aroud 6 percent but rose dramatically during the Trump administration. https://apnews.com/f78f4205f474482db8bb8fa7a5ebfa27

27. Trump’s tax law disproportionately hurt African Americans.-They were left out from Trump’s tax cut. African American households received only 5% of the benefits from Trump’s tax law, despite making up 13% of U.S. households. https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/how-trumps-tax-cuts-favor-whites-over-minorities/

28. The Trump administration decided to repeal the Clean Power Plan, which was designed to reduce pollution and improve public health. This action directly affects people of color, since, according to the EPA, they are more likely to live near pollution-emitting power plants, making them more susceptible to dangerous health disorders such as asthma and cardiovascular disease.

29. Trump's Department of Interior reversed an Obama-era strategic plan to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in its parks hiring https://www.outsideonline.com/2256526/doi-wants-preserve-inequality-our-parks

30. Jeff Sessions overturned so-called smart on crime approaches to criminal justice by directing prosecutors to pursue the harshest drug sentences possible, without consideration of an individual’s role in a drug conspiracy. This reversal will contribute to the overincarceration of African Americans, who remain more than twice as likely to be arrested for drug possession than whites http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/HolderMandatoryMinimumsMemo.pdf

31. Attorney General Sessions reversed a DOJ plan to reduce its use of private prisons, which profit from the war on drugs and house a greater share of people of color than public prisons.

32. Trump signed a bill taking away the right for people to take financial companies to court, a step toward weakening the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which protects individuals—especially people of color—from wealth-stripping financial products and fights against discrimination in the financial industry.

33. Trump administration wanted to eliminate the U.S. Commerce Department’s Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), which provides business consulting services to people of color who wish to start or expand their own businesses

34. Trump's Education Department is reportedly considering scrapping Obama-era federal guidance designed to ensure school discipline policies do not discriminate against students of color

35. Trump wanted to freeze Pell Grant awards—which help nearly two-thirds of African American students and half of Latino students pay for college

36. Trump attacked African American professional athletes for protesting systemic racism

37. Trump did however praise the good people on both sides--In response to white nationalists rampaging through Charlottesville,And ultimately murdering a counter protester and injuring dozens more

38. Trump tweeted that several black & brown members of Congress are “from countries whose governments are a total catastrophe” that they should “go back” to those countries. aimed at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, & Rashida Tlaib --**ALL 4 ARE AMERICAN**

39. Trump regularly retweeted messages from white supremacists and neo-Nazis during his presidential campaign

40. Trump Believes Giving Black Voters Access to Voting Is Stealing the Election https://www.theroot.com/trump-believes-giving-black-voters-access-to-voting-is-1843418169

41. Not a single appellate court judge appointed to the bench in his forst term was black, He did appoint several white folk who were unqualified according to the ABA-AmaericanBar Association

**In the grand tradition of everything Trump touches dies--

#Hate crimes reportedly jumped by 226 percent in counties that hosted Trump campaign rallies https://www.vox.com/2019/3/24/18279807/trump-hate-crimes-study-white-nationalism**Research Center.

42. Some would argue that having a racist as the head of a party doesn’t necessarily make the entire party racist, which is true. But there is not a single significant poll that shows Republican voters with lower negative feelings about non-white populations versus Democrats or independents. They have become the party of racism

43. Minnesota Officials Link Arrested Looters to White Supremacist Groups--- floyd https://www.courthousenews.com/minnesota-officials-link-arrested-looters-to-white-supremacist-groups/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=minnesota-officials-link-arrested-looters-to-white-supremacist-groups

**If Ku Klux Klan members started wearing Black Lives Matter T-shirts, would that automatically make them a civil rights organization? No, But Trump is trying desparately to get us to that point by normalizing such nonsense**