Donald Trump Jr. got thoroughly schooled on his father’s overt racism
10.
10/x: Your dad gave Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller, no strangers to white nationalism, senior roles in his 2016 presidential campaign and in his White House.
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) February 11, 2020
11.
11/x: Your dad has unapologetically retweeted white nationalists, and for years has praised himself and others as being the successful beneficiaries of “good genes.”
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) February 11, 2020
12.
12/x: Michael Cohen, your dad’s former lawyer, testified before Congress that “Mr. Trump is a racist.”
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) February 11, 2020
13.
13/x: Cohen also recalled a trip with your dad: “While we were once driving through a struggling neighborhood in Chicago, he commented that only black people could live that way. He told me that black people would never vote for him because they were too stupid.”
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) February 11, 2020
14.
14/x: — In White House meetings, your dad has inveighed against allowing immigrants from “shithole countries” into the U.S. — noting that, unlike residents of Norway, Haitians all had AIDS and Nigerians lived in “huts.”
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) February 11, 2020
15.
15/x: In the wake of the Charlottesville marches in 2017, your dad famously couldn’t bring himself to promptly condemn the neo-Nazis who had taken part. Instead, he initially criticized the “egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence, on many sides — on many sides.”
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) February 11, 2020
16.
16/x: Last year, your dad suggested that four Democratic congresswomen of color, three of whom were born in the U.S., “go back” to their ancestors’ countries.
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) February 11, 2020
17.
17/x: Despite a broad public outcry about the leader of the free world unleashing a timeworn racist trope against that group of women, your dad refused to apologize or back away from his comments.
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) February 11, 2020
He emphasized a further reason why Trump should be considered worse than Bloomberg – the latter apologised.
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18/x: @MikeBloomberg apologized and will continue to apologize for stop and frisk. It was wrong and he stood by it for too long. But it hardly defines the totality of his work with people of color, and the broad policies he continues to pursue to empower people of color.
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) February 11, 2020
19.
19/x: Still waiting for your dad to apologize for the racism and bigotry he’s visited upon communities of color at home and abroad during his presidency — and decades before. Tick, tock, tick, tick…
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) February 11, 2020
20.
20/x: While we hold our breath waiting for all of these apologies, also ask your dad about banning travelers from mostly-Muslim countries or his nifty habit of tearing brown babies and children away from their parents at the U.S.’s southern border with Mexico.
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) February 11, 2020
Trump Jr. has yet to respond, but we believe we can predict with a high level of accuracy the reply he will give:
“Fake news.”
For the sake of the US – and the rest of us – we hope the presidential race doesn’t boil down to which one has been less racist than the other.
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