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A guy so slimy, even Jesse Helms canned his ass after he did the "White Hands" TV ad for Helms.
Trump SuperPAC Hires Ex-Jesse Helms Strategist Who Made Infamous Racist Ad
by Tommy Christopher | 9:23 am, June 6th, 2016
It should come as no surprise that a SuperPAC supporting the candidacy of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has hired a strategist who is responsible for one of the most, if not the most, notoriously racist ads in the history of racist political television ads. In 1990, then-alive openly racist Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC) was mired in a close race with black former Charlotte mayor Harvey Gantt when he ran an ad that was subtly entitled Hands, and featured a downtrodden white man crumpling up a rejection letter for a job that went to,
a minority because of a racial quota:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-superpac-hires-ex-jesse-helms-strategist-who-made-infamous-racist-ad/
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Archae
(46,337 posts)Got any evidence of this?
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Archae
(46,337 posts)We're talking about TRUMP, dammit!
Hekate
(90,714 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Trump just wants to match up.
Archae
(46,337 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Archae
(46,337 posts)Throw a tantrum?
I want Sanders too, but lumping Hillary in with Trump is beyond being an asshole.
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)Time to grow up, grab the bull by the tail, and face the situation
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)And you can't deny that they both have their slime guys.
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)Paz y amor
Journeyman
(15,036 posts)so Trump will have nothing (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) to do with either the smear merchant or the independent (ha, ha, nudge, nudge, wink, wink, know what I mean?) SuperPAC.