"The person I'd thought I'd known so well for so long was actually a racist."

[Miles Archer]

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Omarosa: “It had finally sunk in that the person I’d thought I’d known so well for so long was actually a racist. Using the N-word was not just the way he talks but, more disturbing, it was how he thought of me and African Americans as a whole.”

Link to tweet

‘No Vacancies’ for Blacks: How Donald Trump Got His Start, and Was First Accused of Bias

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/us/politics/donald-trump-housing-race.html

Over the next decade, as Donald J. Trump assumed an increasingly prominent role in the business, the company’s practice of turning away potential black tenants was painstakingly documented by activists and organizations that viewed equal housing as the next frontier in the civil rights struggle.

The Justice Department undertook its own investigation and, in 1973, sued Trump Management for discriminating against blacks. Both Fred Trump, the company’s chairman, and Donald Trump, its president, were named as defendants. It was front-page news, and for Donald, amounted to his debut in the public eye.

“Absolutely ridiculous,” he was quoted as saying of the government’s allegations.

Looking back, Mr. Trump’s response to the lawsuit can be seen as presaging his handling of subsequent challenges, in business and in politics. Rather than quietly trying to settle — as another New York developer had done a couple of years earlier — he turned the lawsuit into a protracted battle, complete with angry denials, character assassination, charges that the government was trying to force him to rent to “welfare recipients” and a $100 million countersuit accusing the Justice Department of defamation.

[nycbos]

1. Let me translate that for you.

I didn't mind for so long because I was able to cash a big enough check working for him but now I'm on the outside of his inner circle now I care.

[Roland99]

3. Bingo. Didn't bother her enough to not work at the WH

[Raine]

6. Exactly

on point!

[NCTraveler]

2. To be fair to her...

She is stuck on herself so much that she really might not have noticed. Just thinks about herself.

[struggle4progress]

4. "He sold the US to the Russians! But did he use the N-word? And what's up with the Space Force?

See Rudy and Sarah cover squirrels with glitter then chase them around our studio! Coming up next!"

[elleng]

5. 'he turned the lawsuit into a protracted battle, complete with angry denials,

character assassination, charges that the government was trying to force him to rent to “welfare recipients” and a $100 million countersuit accusing the Justice Department of defamation.'

Despicable, then as now.