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I need more than a comment from 20 yrs ago...  Jesse Jackson: Trump 'Speaks Like A Racist,' Is A 'Weapon Of Mass Destruction'https://www.dailywire.com/news/25827/jesse-jackson-trump-speaks-racist-weapon...http://www.msnbc.com/hallie-jackson/watch/rev-jesse-jackson-speaks-out-agains...https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-politics/rev-jackson-calls-trump-threat-...https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/us/politics/trump-racism.htmlYou want old news?... " Mr. Trump’s history of racially inflammatory episodes traces back to his first days in the public eye. As a young real estate businessman raised in Queens and working with his father, Mr. Trump and the family firm were sued by the Justice Department in 1973 for discriminating against black applicants for rental apartments. He eventually signed a consent decree requiring him to desegregate his properties, although he claimed victory because it included no financial penalty.
As he became more of a public figure, Mr. Trump waded into racially charged controversies that periodically erupted in New York. After five Latino and African-American teenagers were charged with beating and raping a jogger in Central Park in 1989, he spent $85,000 to take out full-page ads in four New York newspapers calling for the death penalty.
The Central Park Five, as they were called, were later exonerated and were paid a $41 million settlement, but Mr. Trump has never accepted that outcome. As late as 2016, he insisted that they were still guilty and that the settlement was “outrageous.”
While Mr. Obama was in office, Mr. Trump was a leader of the so-called birther movement, promoting the conspiracy theory that Mr. Obama had been born in Kenya, a false claim he did not abandon until 2016. During the campaign, Mr. Trump also generated criticism for describing illegal immigrants from Mexico as “rapists”; proposing to ban all Muslims from entering the nation; and being slow to disavow the support of David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klansman."
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