... Mr. REID. Madam President, virtually every time Donald Trump says or does something discriminatory -- and that is often -- the media relies upon a catalog of buzzwords to describe his actions. The press uses words like hateful, intolerant, bigot, extremist, prejudice, to name but a few. Yet there is always one word that many of the press conspicuously avoid: Racist. They never label Trump as a racist, but he is a racist.
Donald Trump is a racist.
``Racist'' is a term I don't really like.
We have all, with rare exception -- I don't know who it would be -- said things that are not politically correct, but I don't know of anyone, when that happens, who doesn't acknowledge it and, if necessary, apologizes quickly, but Donald Trump doesn't believe the racist things he does and says are wrong. He says them with the full intent to demean and to denigrate.
That is who he is.
Each time Trump is given a chance to apologize and make amends, he refuses, and then he doubles down on what he said before.
The media is not holding Donald Trump accountable at all. He is not being held accountable. ...
Trump has even had a secret system for discriminatory practices. As the Washington Post reported:
Trump employees have secretly marked the applications of minorities with codes, such as `No. 9' and `C' for colored. .
. . The employees allegedly directed blacks and Puerto Ricans away from buildings with mostly white tenants and steered them toward properties that had many minorities.
In the 1980s, Trump took his racism to Atlantic City. This is Donald Trump at his best. He cheated, coerced, filed bankruptcy, did anything he could to cheat people out of money.
In the process, his racism came to the forefront in Atlantic City. Trump was accused of making his African-American employees move off the casino floor when he didn't want to see them, which was any time he came to the casino. One employee, Kip Brown, said:
When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor. It was the eighties, I was a teenager, but I remember it: they put us all in the back.
Trump was later fined $200,000 by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission for that act of disgusting racism. ...
