Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh got on Facebook to stick up for Donald Trump, who faces criticism over his comments about women in a 2005 video. Limbaugh said: “We have a guy, Donald Trump … an A-list celebrity, rich and famous, who’s been surrounded by beautiful women all over the world for 30 years. Not once in 30 years has any of these women claimed he assaulted ’em … that only happened three weeks before a presidential election in which he is running … same with Trump and racism …for 30 years in public life, nobody’s ever called him a racist until he ran for president.”
Well, nobody ever claimed that Limbaugh was a hypocrite for criticizing drug users on his radio show until he was arrested for illegally abusing Oxycontin pills. When people seek the most powerful job in the world, that brings scrutiny. No one could examine Trump’s true feelings about women until the tape was made public.
Although the Trump campaign will not deal in facts, it is important that we the people examine them. Donald Trump was president of his father’s real estate management company when it was sued by the Department of Justice for racial discrimination against African-Americans looking for apartments in Brooklyn. In 1974, the Trump organization paid to settle the lawsuit and promised not to discriminate racially again.
In 1976, the DOJ had to sue Trump for discriminating against African American apartment seekers, again. In the book Trumped, written by the COO of his Trump Plaza Hotel, Trump is quoted describing an African American employee by saying, “I think this guy is lazy … and it’s probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is… not anything they can control.”
This is the man who insults Mexicans, Latinos, Muslims and women. He has been unfaithful to his vows, pays no income tax on billions and is desperately willing to say anything in order to become the most powerful man in the world.
Trump’s words and deeds have demonstrated that he is a small-minded, hateful and self-centered egomaniac. However, the scariest thing is that some people are so desperate to hate Hillary Clinton that they will accept any nonsense floated on the Internet to justify support of Trump. The ridiculous claims made or repeated should be compared to some of the whoppers repeated before President Obama took office. Then, hysterical conservatives promised that he would suspend the Constitution, confiscate all firearms and declare martial law so that the army could enforce his dictatorial rule. Crazy, right?
The fact is that Trump is the least qualified candidate for president with a history of poor personal and business decisions who would be the most dangerous and potentially most destructive president ever to occupy the White House. How can people not see the difference in the candidates? It is true we could have had better qualified candidates and it is true both candidates have personality issues for voters.
None of the crazy conservative claims about Mr. Obama came close to happening and the claims sound as crazed and nonsensical now as they did then. When people slip terms like “pure evil,” “the Devil” or “crooked” into a political debate, you know you must find someone else to communicate with if you expect a reasoned discussion. Trump must admire another Vladimir who said, “A lie told often enough becomes truth.” (Lenin).
Crazy, Right!
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