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Archae

(46,337 posts)
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 11:26 PM Jun 2016

Donald Trump hires experienced smear merchant as staffer...

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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Response to Archae (Original post)

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
8. He's the (former) rw political hit man who called Anita Hill a little bit nutty/slutty
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 11:38 PM
Jun 2016

Trump just wants to match up.

Archae

(46,337 posts)
13. What are yu going to do if Hillary gets the nomination?
Tue Jun 7, 2016, 12:01 AM
Jun 2016

Throw a tantrum?

I want Sanders too, but lumping Hillary in with Trump is beyond being an asshole.

world wide wally

(21,744 posts)
7. Never miss a chance to smear a Dem by conflating her with Trump.
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 11:38 PM
Jun 2016

Time to grow up, grab the bull by the tail, and face the situation

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
9. I'm just confirming what the above poster said, that Trump did what Hillary did.
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 11:40 PM
Jun 2016

And you can't deny that they both have their slime guys.

Journeyman

(15,036 posts)
4. Technically, Donald Trump didn't hire him -- the SuperPAC did (have to maintain the fiction) . . .
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 11:35 PM
Jun 2016

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.

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