Adolf Trump stayed silent when his racist dad said 'I don't rent to n-----s'...

stringer bell
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edited September 2016 in For The Grown & Sexy
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/donald-trump-dad-don-rent-n-s-1963-article-1.2774947?utm_content=buffer3b5ff&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=NYDailyNewsTw
EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump stayed silent when his dad said 'I don't rent to n---s' in rejecting black tenant's bid for Queens apartment in 1963, ex-employee claims

Donald Trump's father once used the N-word when rejecting a black tenant’s application to rent a Trump apartment in Queens, a retired building manager told the Daily News.

And the now-GOP nominee was standing right next to his father Fred when it happened and did not react, says the one-time Trump manager, Stanley Leibowitz.

Leibowitz, now 88, managed several Trump buildings in the 1960s and 1970s, including the Wilshire Apartments in Jamaica Estates.

Early this week he recounted for The News a disturbing incident involving the use of the vile racial epithet that took place in 1963 involving father and son Trump.

At the time, Donald Trump was still a teenager but was learning his father’s real estate business by constantly staying by his father’s side, Leibowitz recalled.

At some point in 1963, Maxine Brown, a black registered nurse with impeccable credit, applied for an apartment at the Wilshire.

“She was calling me on a daily basis, wanted to know the status of the application. I had her checked out and she should have been accepted,” Leibowitz recalled.

Leibowitz described what happened when he showed Brown’s application to Fred Trump while Donald was standing alongside his father.

“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.’ 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."

Donald, Leibowitz said, had “no reaction” to his father’s use of the slur.

Leibowitz said he recounted the incident to The New York Times last month, and the newspaper on Aug. 28 published the account of the interaction without including Fred Trump’s statement with the racial epithet or the fact that Donald was there.

Leibowitz was puzzled by this omission, telling The News that the exchange left him rattled.

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

He said he did as he was told and tossed out the application. When Brown later filed a complaint with the city Human Rights Commission, Leibowitz was subpoenaed to testify but was not asked about the use of the epithet. The commission sided with Brown and she eventually got an apartment in the building.


On Thursday, Trump spokesperson Hope Hicks rejected Leibowitz’s allegation, stating, “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.”

The retiree’s recollection completely contradicts the GOP’s presidential nominee’s repeated insistence that he and his father never discriminated against anyone.

In October 1973, for instance, the Department of Justice sued Trump and his father, alleging the Trump organization engaged in systemic rejection of black renters in its empire of 15,000 apartments across Queens, the Bronx and Brooklyn
.

At the time, Donald Trump told The New York Times, “We have never discriminated and we never would.”

When the Trumps later countersued the Justice Department, Donald Trump asserted, “I have never, nor has anyone in our organization ever, to the best of my knowledge, discriminated or shown bias in renting our apartments.”

In the federal lawsuit, a superintendent for a Trump building in Cincinnati told the Justice Department that he was instructed by Trump managers to attach a “C” for “colored” to all applications from blacks.

The Trumps denied this and the superintendent later recanted his assertions.

The Trumps vigorously rejected all of government’s allegations but settled the case in 1975. They did not admit wrongdoing, but agreed to implement new policies to ensure that all tenants — no matter their race — would be treated the same.

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  • D0wn
    D0wn Members Posts: 10,818 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Lmao y'all wanna a young cac to disrespect his dad?

    BREAKING A WHITE GUY SAYING ? IN THE 60s

    Breaking: a white guy is racist
  • CeLLaR-DooR
    CeLLaR-DooR Members Posts: 18,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Come on man Trump does plenty ? now in 2016 no need to bring ? like this up.

  • Allah_U_Akbar
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  • The Lonious Monk
    The Lonious Monk Members Posts: 26,258 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Didn't Donald Trump get investigated twice by the State Department for discriminatory practices with his properties? Why would anyone expect him to say something against his father for doing something that he too did?
  • leftcoastkev
    leftcoastkev Members Posts: 6,232 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 2016
    I wouldn't usually defend the ? but he was only 17.

    When I was seventeen I wouldn't have got on any type of moral high horse to pop off at my dad either......especially if he was mentoring me on getting real estate money..
    My Dad: "I don't rent to crackers"
    Me: "Oh.....you mean WE don't rent to crackers"

    With all of that said.....I wonder if Leibowitz witnessed Trump using any racial slurs that he isn't talking about....
  • SneakDZA
    SneakDZA Members Posts: 11,223 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't think the point of the story is that he didn't say or do anything... it's just a matter of stating this is how he was raised which is actually pretty important.

    Trump also insists that his father never discriminated against anyone and that the discrimination lawsuit that they were both named in and lost was based on lies which this contradicts.
  • VulcanRaven
    VulcanRaven Members Posts: 18,859 ✭✭✭✭✭
    SneakDZA wrote: »
    I don't think the point of the story is that he didn't say or do anything... it's just a matter of stating this is how he was raised which is actually pretty important.

    Trump also insists that his father never discriminated against anyone and that the discrimination lawsuit that they were both named in and lost was based on lies which this contradicts.

    Just another example of systematic racism and how its passed down through generations. If it's proven that someone discriminated they should not be allowed to own property for rent or do business. If they really want to do something about this issue then they would do that.
  • ThaNubianGod
    ThaNubianGod Members Posts: 1,862 ✭✭✭✭✭
    SneakDZA wrote: »
    I don't think the point of the story is that he didn't say or do anything... it's just a matter of stating this is how he was raised which is actually pretty important.

    Trump also insists that his father never discriminated against anyone and that the discrimination lawsuit that they were both named in and lost was based on lies which this contradicts.

    I hear what you're saying, but Trump's companies have always been good when it comes to hiring and advancing non-cacs up the corporate ladder. Hillary around that time was being called "Goldwater Girl" and campaigning for a segregationist, while idolizing Margaret ? .
  • zzombie
    zzombie Members Posts: 11,280 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't blame trump for keeping his mouth shut otherwise he might have got disinherited and ? taking those kinds of risk
  • NoCompetition
    NoCompetition Members Posts: 3,661 ✭✭✭✭✭
    SneakDZA wrote: »
    I don't think the point of the story is that he didn't say or do anything... it's just a matter of stating this is how he was raised which is actually pretty important.

    Trump also insists that his father never discriminated against anyone and that the discrimination lawsuit that they were both named in and lost was based on lies which this contradicts.

    I hear what you're saying, but Trump's companies have always been good when it comes to hiring and advancing non-cacs up the corporate ladder. Hillary around that time was being called "Goldwater Girl" and campaigning for a segregationist, while idolizing Margaret ? .

    Obvious deflection attempt. People are no where near stupid as you think if you think this has any effect or would fool people. There has been story after story about Trump. People arent so unware as to not see any of it continually come on.
  • SneakDZA
    SneakDZA Members Posts: 11,223 ✭✭✭✭✭
    SneakDZA wrote: »
    I don't think the point of the story is that he didn't say or do anything... it's just a matter of stating this is how he was raised which is actually pretty important.

    Trump also insists that his father never discriminated against anyone and that the discrimination lawsuit that they were both named in and lost was based on lies which this contradicts.

    I hear what you're saying, but Trump's companies have always been good when it comes to hiring and advancing non-cacs up the corporate ladder. Hillary around that time was being called "Goldwater Girl" and campaigning for a segregationist, while idolizing Margaret ? .

    Will you please shut the ? up with the Margaret ? already? Nobody is even talking about Clinton here.

    Also...
    Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino President John R. O’Donnell, in the 1991 book “Trumped,” claimed that Trump once said that “laziness is a trait in blacks.” Here is the full context for the statement, as described in the book. O’Donnell relates a conversation with Trump about a finance employee, who happens to be black and who O’Donnell believes has shortcomings.

    Instantly, Donald was enthused. “Yeah, I never liked the guy. I don’t think he knows what the f––– he’s doing. My accountants up in New York are always complaining about him. He’s not responsive. And isn’t it funny, I’ve got black accountants at the Trump Castle and at Trump Plaza. Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. Those are the kind of people I want counting my money. No one else.”

    I couldn’t believe I was hearing this. But Donald went on, “Besides that, I’ve got to tell you something else. I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not something they can control. … Don’t you agree?
  • Copper
    Copper Members Posts: 49,532 ✭✭✭✭✭
    His dad was also a ? member in the 20s

    ...and a few dumb ? on the IC still voting for thus Orange ?
  • ThaNubianGod
    ThaNubianGod Members Posts: 1,862 ✭✭✭✭✭
    SneakDZA wrote: »
    I don't think the point of the story is that he didn't say or do anything... it's just a matter of stating this is how he was raised which is actually pretty important.

    Trump also insists that his father never discriminated against anyone and that the discrimination lawsuit that they were both named in and lost was based on lies which this contradicts.

    I hear what you're saying, but Trump's companies have always been good when it comes to hiring and advancing non-cacs up the corporate ladder. Hillary around that time was being called "Goldwater Girl" and campaigning for a segregationist, while idolizing Margaret ? .

    Obvious deflection attempt. People are no where near stupid as you think if you think this has any effect or would fool people. There has been story after story about Trump. People arent so unware as to not see any of it continually come on.

    Deflection attempt? The article is about what Trump's father said back in 1963 when he was a teenager. My point was that Hillary around 1963-64 was being called "Goldwater Girl". In other words this ? is from 50+ years ago when they were in their teens. Bernie was off writing ? porn at this time.

    Just so you know, I don't like either of these parties. It's no revelation that most of these politicians parents were racist, because this whole country was supporting racism. Al Gore's father was a huge white supremacist. The Bushs were racist as hell. JFK voted AGAINST two civil rights acts as a senator, but you never here about that. LBJ was a racist scumbag.

    I'm just sick of one group of cacs pointing at other cacs and calling them the boogeyman, when their own backgrounds are the same. Gonna be hard to top the Clinton's passing the 1994 crime bill, and support of Stop/Frisk for me on a personal level. because that ? has effected thousands. Why can't Jill Stein gain any traction?
  • Idiopathic Joker
    Idiopathic Joker Members, Moderators Posts: 45,691 Regulator
    This ? posting random articles
  • nujerz84
    nujerz84 Members Posts: 15,418 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 2016
    SneakDZA wrote: »
    I don't think the point of the story is that he didn't say or do anything... it's just a matter of stating this is how he was raised which is actually pretty important.

    Trump also insists that his father never discriminated against anyone and that the discrimination lawsuit that they were both named in and lost was based on lies which this contradicts.

    I hear what you're saying, but Trump's companies have always been good when it comes to hiring and advancing non-cacs up the corporate ladder. Hillary around that time was being called "Goldwater Girl" and campaigning for a segregationist, while idolizing Margaret ? .

    WTF are you talking about? Trump companies have a horrible track record of hiring minorities and having minorites in high ranking excecutive positions.