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Speaker 1: And today I'm going to share a bit from Politico.
Speaker 1: The FBI releases files on Trump's apartments race discrimination probe
Speaker 1: in the seventies. So this is for all those people
Speaker 1: who say Donald Trump's not racist, all right, this is
Speaker 1: a fair article. This is not a biased article. So
Speaker 1: it won't sound the way I would like it to sound,
Speaker 1: but it's fair and it'll still paint the picture. The
Speaker 1: FBI has released nearly four hundred pages of records and
Speaker 1: an investigation the bureau conducted in the nineteen seventies into
Speaker 1: alleged racial discrimination and the rental of apartments from President
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's real estate company. The files detailed dozens of
Speaker 1: interviews the bureau conducted with Trump building tenants, management, and employees,
Speaker 1: seeking in indications that minority tenants were steered away from
Speaker 1: housing complexes. Most of these interviews said that they were
Speaker 1: not aware of any discrimination. However, some of the records
Speaker 1: recount the stories of black rental applicants who said they
Speaker 1: were told no apartments were available, when whites sent to
Speaker 1: check out the same apartments were offered leases. The records
Speaker 1: posted on the FBI's Freedom of Information Act website included
Speaker 1: a nineteen seventy four interview with a former dorman at
Speaker 1: a Trump building in Brooklyn. A supervisor quote told me
Speaker 1: that if a black person came to twenty six to
Speaker 1: fifty Ocean Parkway and inquired about an apartment for rent,
Speaker 1: and he that is redacted was not there at the time,
Speaker 1: that I should tell him the rent was twice as
Speaker 1: much as it really was, in order that he could
Speaker 1: not afford the apartment. The ex dorman said. Many of
Speaker 1: the accounts of discrimination appeared to have originated with the
Speaker 1: National Urban League, which relayed the information to the Justice
Speaker 1: Department's Civil Rights Division. Some of those complaints were barely legible,
Speaker 1: and many of the records were heavily redacted. In October
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three, the Civil Rights Division filed a lawsuit
Speaker 1: against Trump Management Company, Donald Trump and his father Fred Trump,
Speaker 1: alleging that African Americans and Puerto Ricans were system systematically
Speaker 1: excluded from apartments. The Trumps responded with a one hundred
Speaker 1: million dollar countersuit accusing the government of defamation. Donald Trump
Speaker 1: denied any racial discrimination, but said his managers tried to
Speaker 1: read out certain kinds of the tenants. What we didn't
Speaker 1: do was rent to wellfare cases white or black, Trump
Speaker 1: wrote in a nineteen eighty seven book. The Trumps and
Speaker 1: their company entered into a consent decree settling the litigation
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy five. The agreement contained no admission of wrongdoing,
Speaker 1: but required the Trump firm to institute a series of
Speaker 1: safeguards to make sure apartments were rented without regard to race, color, religion, sex,
Speaker 1: or national origin. Okay, so that's the fair, you know whatever.
Speaker 1: Now I want to read some other things Instances of
Speaker 1: racism from Box. This is not exhaustive. This is just
Speaker 1: a couple of things, because this is a short segment.
Speaker 1: In the nineteen eighties, Kit Brown, a former employee at
Speaker 1: Trump's castle, accused another one of Trump's businesses of discrimination. Quote,
Speaker 1: when Donald and Ivana came down to the casino, the
Speaker 1: bosses would order all the black people off the floor.
Speaker 1: Brown said, it was the eighties. I was a teenager,
Speaker 1: but I remember it. They put us all in the back,
Speaker 1: all right. Next up, in nineteen eighty nine, the Central
Speaker 1: Park five. For those who don't know the story, Donald
Speaker 1: Trump called for the death penalty of five teenagers wrongfully
Speaker 1: accused of raping a woman in Central Park. Later on,
Speaker 1: in October twenty sixteen, he said he still believes they're guilty,
Speaker 1: despite the DNA evidence to the contrary and a forty
Speaker 1: one million dollar settlement in their favor, and they're now
Speaker 1: referred to as the Exonerated five. Nineteen ninety one, a
Speaker 1: book by John o'donald, former president Trump Plaza Hotel and
Speaker 1: Casino in Atlantic City, quota Trump's criticisms of a black
Speaker 1: accountant quote, black guys counting my money? I hate it.
Speaker 1: The only kind of people I want counting my money
Speaker 1: are short guys that wear yamaka's every day. I think
Speaker 1: that the guy is lazy, and it's probably not his fault,
Speaker 1: because laziness is a trait of blacks, it really is.
Speaker 1: I believe that it's not anything they can control. Unquote.
Speaker 1: Trump later said in a nineteen ninety seven Playboy interview
Speaker 1: that quote, the stuff o'donald wrote about me is probably true. Quote,
Speaker 1: and then his comments about the Ground Zero mosque in
Speaker 1: twenty ten. Of course, the burther movement with President Obama,
Speaker 1: the s whole countries, and the Muslim band, on and on.
Speaker 1: It's an exhaustive list, but suffices to say that Donald
Speaker 1: Trump has been accused of racism many times in his life,
Speaker 1: so I don't want to hear it.