Trump, 2015: "African-Americas are..lazy..the enemies of progress......"

[riversedge]

How did this evil man get elected? I am still appalled!





clip from:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016233345

[MousePlayingDaffodil]

1. As appalling as Trump is . . .

. . . I note that Snopes indicates that these specific alleged statements by Trump are of dubious origin and almost certainly false. You may wish to investigate and, depending on what you find, reconsider this post.

[MyOwnPeace]

2. There are probably

MAGA-hat wearers that have that framed and hanging in their living rooms right now...... whether it's a true quote or not!

[marble falls]

3. What newspaper is that? I can't find it on any of the links, including Judy Lynn's ...

How in the world did that not make a splash in 2015???

[Codeine]

4. Because it was nonsense,

a bunch of fake quotes on a “satire” site that got repeated by people who don’t check their facts.

The man says enough vile and egregiously-offensive crap in real life without people making shit up.

[marble falls]

5. In fact we need to shy away from made up crap. He's a serious threat and he won't be laughed ...

away. Making him a joke may diminish him, but it also hides just how dangerous a tool he is in the hand of the Christian RW/GOP.

Remember the hay he made when a talking head had to apologize to him? We better be careful of making his fake news claim from even seeming 1% correct.

[cwydro]

7. Someone posted here the other day that Democrats don't make up lies about the other side.

Sadly, I see this kind of crap quite often here.

[marble falls]

9. Yep. And sometimes I see things here from DUers I heard from Nixonites in the 60's and 70's ...

ie: like someone needing to move to 'Russia' if they loved it so much. That RWers need locking up with no due process. Its always a little breathtaking to see it.

Even impeaching/indicting the Orange Shitgibbon requires due process and takes time.

[JHB]

10. It originated on a Kenyan website, "Politica"...

...which appears to be a legit regional site, and got picked up by other sites and papers in Africa, but nobody has been able to corroborate details from the 2015 Trump piece.

https://www.politics.co.ke/news/some-africans-are-lazy-fools-only-good-at-eating-lovemaking-and-stealing-donald-trump-2/

From Snopes:

Trump indeed spoke publicly on 25 October 2015, when he appeared on CBS’ Sunday morning political interview show Face the Nation. On Twitter, Trump detailed his movements throughout the day: (5 tweets linked)

We were unable to locate any instances in which Trump visited Indianapolis at any point in October 2015. Moreover, the comments attributed to Trump (purportedly spoken to an American audience in a U.S. city) by African web sites rated as far more offensive than prior controversial remarks made by the candidate in the past that were widely reported by the U.S. news media, yet for some reason this purported quote didn’t attract the attention of a single U.S.-based political blog or web site.

[marble falls]

11. I really appreciate that, I couldn't get that to come up on Snopes (I guess I used the wrong ...

quote snippet).

Best paragraph describing the feeling of somehow not remembering this:

"It beggared belief that Trump would say such things in the United States at what was ostensibly a campaign event, yet no American political web sites reported on the remarks. As with an earlier spurious Trump quote, rumors that the candidate described black people as lazy, sex-crazed thieves appeared to be a work of political fan fiction."

I expect Russian bots will be pushing this kind of stuff to trip us up in the future.

[Fla_Democrat]

6. Dontcha just hate how ignorant his voters are...

Imagine, people voting for him that don't even go get the facts from internet research sites like .... the onion, babylon bee, weekly world news, etc.



https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-africans-lazy-stealing/

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37949183

[cwydro]

8. Lol, I see what you did there.

[dalton99a]

12. What he actually said about Obama

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/15/opinion/leonhardt-trump-racist.html
Donald Trump’s Racism: The Definitive List
By DAVID LEONHARDT and IAN PRASAD PHILBRICK
JAN. 15, 2018

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Turin_C3PO]

13. Delete OP

Fake News!