Rachel is telling it now "I don’t rent to the N Word” quoting Fred Trump with Donald listening in

[Mira]

Fred Trump’s rental agent tells details of discrimination against Blacks, Rachel is showing a video of his statements. Stanley Leibowitz, the agent, tells this was a direct quote of Fred Trump while Donald Trump stood next to him listening in. Fred told the agent to put the applications from black people in the drawer and ignore them. And Donald agreed with his father.

[eleny]

1. DT signals his assent by nodding his head at what is father asserted

Heck of a clear interview with this guy, Liebowitz.

k&r

[Miles Archer]

2. "C"

Fred used "C" as a code letter on his rental applications.

For "Colored" applicants.

And yes, Donald agreed with all of it.

[napkinz]

5. yep ...

[napkinz]

3. the story was reported in September and ignored until now ...

“I asked him, ‘What do you want me to do with this application?’ He said, ‘You know I don’t rent to n-----s. Put it in your desk drawer,’” Stanley Leibowitz, the former building manager, told the New York Daily News in a story published Friday. “Donald was alongside of him. He was maybe 16, 17 years old at the time. He was learning the business of his father. He was right at his side."

The allegation that the senior Trump had used the racial epithet — and had a standing policy of rejecting black tenants — comes as the Republican nominee is looking to widen his appeal to black voters. On Saturday Trump plans on visiting a black church in Detroit, where he will tape an interview with a pastor there as he tries to reverse his history of offending black Americans that have largely thrown their support behind his Democratic rival so far.

“It was the first time I heard that. I didn’t know what his policies were,” Leibowitz said. “I was quite surprised and upset.”

The Trump campaign denied to the Daily News the exchange ever happened, with campaign spokesperson Hope Hicks saying, “This claim, which is categorically false, is also totally unsubstantiated. Additionally, as you said, Mr. Trump would have been 16 years old at the time.”

Leibowitz said that he had approached the New York Times with the same information but that the allegation was not printed.

http://www.ibtimes.com/donald-trumps-dad-history-n-word-used-father-candidate-deny-apartments-blacks-report-2410711

[eleny]

4. The law suit story has been out...

...but I never saw anything about this rental agent being interviewed. This interview sets it in stone.

Visuals, like Trump's groping audio, makes it so much more "real". It puts a face on it between showing the rental agent and one of the people who was turned down for an apartment.

[brettdale]

6. So it was Fred Trump

Why the f*** is Maddow resulting to Faux news type tactics.

There is so much more she can hit trumpy with.

[lonestarnot]

9. Maybe she wanted to reiterate the douche doesn't fall far from the bag.

[BootinUp]

7. As if any more evidence the Trumps

were racists fucks was needed.

[Ms. Toad]

8. Trump is a racist now.

This is a story about his father, in a time when such language and attitudes were (unfortunately) far more likely to be used in public, without apology. For reference, this was 2 years before the March on Selma.

The problem with Trump isn't that, as a teenager in the 60s, he shook his head in agreement with his father when his father used the N word. It is that he hasn't changed since then. (He hasn't even gotten much more subtle about it.)

How many of us would want to be judged by something our parents said when we were teenagers because we failed to publicly challenge it?

[Mc Mike]

10. Thanks for posting the info.

Some people on this site are making a big deal out of saying dRumpfie was only 16 when Fred told Mr. Liebowitz that his company has this racist policy. But he was 27 when the Justice Dept. sued the drumpf company for continuing the racist practices in '73. The company got caught violating that consent decree with the DOJ and continuing the racist practice afterward. And they got sued again in '78, when he was 32.

" In 1978, though, the Justice Department accused the Trumps of violating the agreement and charged they were still discriminating against African Americans, but that case fizzled out by 1982.

Trump addressed none of these troubling details at the debate. Nor did he mention another relevant fact, which has not received prominent coverage during the current presidential campaign: just as the Trumps' standoff with the Justice Department was winding down, their real estate business was hit by a group of similar lawsuits for again allegedly discriminating against black New Yorkers looking for apartments.

...

Donald Trump was not named in the lawsuits, but at that point, he was an owner of Coronet Hall and a senior officer of Trump Management Inc., which controlled various Trump companies, including Coronet Hall. "

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/another-housing-discrimination-lawsuit-donald-trump

He was thirty six at the time.

[Vinca]

11. I don't think Donald nodding at his father's slur is going to have much impact.

We already know he's a racist. What would have an impact are the sex-with-underage-girls charges. I wonder if the MSM will get enough info and back-up info to release that story in a big way (or should I say "bigly&quot .