New York Daily News

Don’s father kept blacks from renting

- Rudy Giuliani Scottie Nell Hughes Al Baldasaro Rich Schapiro

Lives theories and rails against the Black Now he just pushes conspiracy He used to be America’s Mayor. Matter movement. glossing over the deadly opportunit­y to bring up 9/11 — For once, Giuliani didn’t seize an inside the United States” in radical Islamic terrorist attack “we didn’t have any successful terrorist attacks while claiming into office,” he (Hillary) Clinton and Obama got presidency. “They all started when the eight years before Barack Obama’s New York — and himself, as the mayor of while President George W. Bush said, id, thou though the twin towers fell product “misinterpr­eted” remark was the He later told the Daily News his City — were in office at the time. he uses. t of the “abbreviate­d language” last month to claim that black with Giuliani citing a bogus stat That gaffe is locked in a dead heat suggesting that Muslims on the killing one another, and days later children have a “99% chance” of wear GPS tracking bracelets. federal terror watch list should on his head, the form er news sporting an enormous bump Despite having appeared on cable failing health. His most speculatio­n over Clinton’s supposedly mayor has stoked widely discredite­d illness’; take a look at the videos online and put down ‘Hillary Clinton recent argument: Google it. “Go Sunday” last weekend. for yourself,” he told “Fox News Hughes, the political editor of RightAlert­s.com, surrogate is an unofficial as a “Donald who frequently appears on CNN to that name Trump supporter.” She lives up once played so faithfully that Cecily Strong thusly: her on “SNL,” summing up her devotion but as a fullblown “As a woman, I like Donald Trump, nutjob, I freaking love him.” For no apparent Hughes reason beyond ethnic hatred, Sen. Tim slammed Democratic veep nominee in his first Kaine last month for using Spanish “I didn’t have appearance with Hillary Clinton. that was going to get a translator for anything I’m hoping on at the RNC this week. And up on I’m not going to have to start brushing some my ‘Dora the Explorer’ to understand (She later of the speeches given this week.” apologized.) men’s Hughes showed promise as a future National rights advocate with her Democratic which she Convention commentary, during ceiling and denied the existence of a glass down boys’ suggested Clinton was tearing girls they presidenti­al aspiration­s by telling could be POTUS. son from “What about my son? Does my can become what she said — ‘Your daughter what one as well’ — I immediatel­y (thought) them have about making it equal so both of she’s going t o the opportunit­y? Why is it that sit there and put favor on one?” Baldasaro, a member of Trump’s veterans coalition and a New Hampshire state representa­tive, is a former Marine who has been investigat­ed by the Secret Service for his inflammato­ry remarks. Baldasaro has lately kept busy spreading a conspiracy theory about Gold Star dad Khizr Khan being a “Muslim Brotherhoo­d agent.” But he topped that recently by doubling down on his longstandi­ng claim that Clinton should be “put in the firing line and shot for treason” over her alleged mishandlin­g of the Benghazi attack — clarifying that he hadn’t been calling for her assassinat­ion, just for her to “be shot in a firing squad for treason.” Days later, he told BuzzFeed he regretted phrasing his remarks with “firing squad.” New Hampshire state Rep. Amanda Bouldin took to Facebook in December to air her grievances over a bill that would make it illegal for only women to expose their nipples in public. Naturally, she received vile comments from male colleagues, including Baldasaro: “No disrespect, but your nipple would be the last one I would want to see,” Baldasaro wrote. “You want to turn our family beach’s (sic) into a pervert show.” DONALD TRUMP may be reaching out to blacks now — but the Trump family has a disturbing history of trying to keep them away.

The Trump family business, which included The Donald and was led by his father, Fred, went to shameful lengths to prevent blacks from renting apartments in the early 1970s, according to a New York Times story published Saturday.

Trump employees were instructed to attach a letter “c” — for colored — to any rental applicatio­ns submitted by black apartment seekers.

After one perfectly qualified black woman dropped off an applicatio­n, Fred Trump himself instructed an employee to ignore it.

“I asked him what to do and he says, ‘Take the applicatio­n and put it in a drawer and leave it there,’ ” former rental agent Stanley Leibowitz told The Times. The racial discrimina­tion allegation­s led to a Justice Department suit that ultimately forced the Trumps to change the way they advertised their apartments.

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