THE FIRST RACIST NOMINEE SINCE WOODROW WILSON? (profanity alert):

The Nixon Administration Sues Trump's Company for Housing Discrimination:

The first time Donald J. Trump's name appeared in the New York Times, it was in 1973 under headline: "Major Landlord Accused of Antiblack Bias in City." According to the Department of Justice, the Trump Management Corp. violated the Fair Housing Act of 1968 by systematically refusing to rent apartments to or negotiate with black tenants. Trump settled the case two years later without admitting guilt, but as part of the deal he was required to provide the New York Urban League with a weekly list of all apartment vacancies for two years. [...]

"Laziness Is a Trait in Blacks. It Really Is; I Believe That."

John O'Donnell, who served as the president of the Trump Plaza Hotel and C[***]o, wrote a memoir about his experience. In it, O'Donnell quoted his former boss as making statements like these:

I've got black accountants at Trump Castle and at Trump Plaza--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. Those are the kind of people I want counting my money. Nobody else. . . . Besides that, I've got to tell you something else. I think that the guy is lazy. And it's probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is; I believe that. It's not anything they can control.

In an interview in 1999 with Playboy, Trump dismissed O'Donnell as a "f[****]g loser," but not before conceding "the stuff O'Donnell wrote about me is probably true."

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