Birther Trump fires staffer for racist posts

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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/02/donald-trump-staffer-fired-sam-nunberg-facebook-posts
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A political adviser to Donald Trump has been fired from the real-estate mogul’s presidential campaign over racially charged posts on Facebook.
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The Trump campaign confirmed to the Guardian on Sunday that longtime aide Sam Nunberg had been fired, after Business Insider reported on an eight-year-old social media post.

In 2007, a post on Nunberg’s Facebook page referring to the veteran civil rights campaigner Al Sharpton read: “Meeting Rev Sharpton today, no joke – he will tell him that his daughter is N---!”

The profile contained a number of other charged posts, which included references to former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee as “Huckahuck” and to Barack Obama as a “Socialist Marxist Islamo Fascist Nazi Appeaser”.

“I have a long record of working with diverse people,” he told CNN. “And anything you are reporting on does not reflect anything on Mr Trump or Mr Trump’s campaign.

More at link - damn these people are racist lunatics

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1. Don't you know that The Donald is the only one allowed to say these things.

Talk about hypocritical.

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2. Looks that way

LOL

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3. If that's the bar his campaign has set, then he needs to fire himself.

Obviously.