Posted on 08/02/2015 10:26:44 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Donald Trump's presidential campaign said Sunday it fired a staffer after racially charged Facebook posts he allegedly wrote were uncovered Friday.
Effective immediately, Sam Nunberg, a Trump political adviser, is "no longer associated with the Donald J. Trump for president campaign," Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski confirmed to CNN.
Nunberg allegedly wrote racially charged and disparaging political posts dating back to 2007, including one calling civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton's daughter a "N—!" and another calling President Barack Obama a "Socialist Marxist Islamo Fascist Nazi Appeaser," Business Insider reported Friday. Nunberg is denying he wrote the posts.
Lewandowski told CNN on Friday that the posts are "offensive" and said Nunberg would be fired if he indeed wrote those posts.
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Nothing wrong with that one
Based on this description of obama -he deserves a promotion. Just kidding - Trump can’t have anyone in his campaign who writes this kind of discriminatory stuff. I’m referring to the racial epithets.
Once you play the Nazi card you’ve lost the argument.
He should have replaced it with terrorist.
I read the entire article at the link.
The former Nixon staffer is a liar.
Mr. Trump does NOT need a liar working in his campaign.
The long knives are out to take Trump down with any and every issue real or “trumped up” (no pun intended) on the table.
>> Once you play the Nazi card you’ve lost the argument....He should have replaced it with terrorist. <<
Sounds like a perfect definition to me.
I am not adept at social media,” he told CNN on Friday. “I have a long record of working with diverse people. And anything you are reporting on does not reflect anything on Mr. Trump or Mr. Trump’s campaign. I would also point out that all of these things were done before Mr. Trump’s campaign, if I even did them — which I deny. In any event, this is the problem with politics ... Politics as usual is wrong.”
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He lied, he wrote them and now he’s fired....Mr. Trump: YOUR FIRED! end of subject....
I’ve said worse things about Obama.
Trump needs to periodically fumigate his campaign staff for Moles. Those troublesome, mangy varmits can ruin the best of plans! They usually work silently, and tend to be nocturnal.
Did he use the N word... Or did he post it as they are quoting it. “N___!”?
Letting them censor us is half the battle!
Agree. Sen Cruz, as well.
Good to see Trump take decisive action unlike other candidates that tend to circle the wagons. No, Trump determined the staff member did say these things, things that Trump found offensive, and he terminated him. Good. Hey Congress, how about you terminate Boehner and McConnell?
Great point, the staffer lied. What an idiot to think he previous writing would not be found. Stupid. No one needs to a liar on their staff, especially a candidate.
The reason I changed it is because Nazi is so yesterday and terrorist is current.
Trump has an uncanny ability to turn these embarrassments into nothings. A lot if candidates would go on the defensive, not defending the person but tactically admitting to poor judgement in hiring or lack of oversight.
What Trump does is claim that he did something virtuous by getting rid of the problem and then turning the focus away from Trump.
Trump can always say something to the effect that he fires people all the time and he would be right.
[Trump political adviser, is “no longer associated with the Donald J. Trump for president campaign,”]
That’s a good reason to have doubts about Fox and Facebook ‘teaming up’ with Mark Zuckerburg...uh...Facebook for the debates.
I can accept this in a campaign for city council. But in a campaign for President one is expected to hire quality people and have the skill to do so.
The #1 job of the President is to hire others to run the government bureaucracy. If a candidate can’t hire good people now, what makes us think he can hire good people later?
Omarosa makes for good reality TV. But we’ve already tried apprentice for president.
I worked for a HUGE company where EVERY social post (facebook, twitter, etc) had to go through 2 approvals. If my brand wanted to post we sent it to a company PR employee. If he/she approved it was forwarded to an external company that reviewed it again (with rules we provided and limited personal judgement) then posted if it didn’t violate the rules. The external company was the only one that had the password to post so it could not be bypassed.
It was occasionally frustrating (didn’t agree with the rejection or really wanted to post immediately) but most of the time it was posted in 15-30 minutes any time of day and rejections were welcome (saved us from something stupid/embarrassing).
I would recommend that any politician or famous person or company adopts that strategy.
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