Posted on 09/14/2018 9:13:12 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who wrote a biography of President Trump said the president doesn’t view non-white people “as people.”
David Cay Johnston wrote the 2016 bestseller “The Making of Donald Trump” and has reportedly known Trump for over two decades.
He appeared on Dean Obeidallah‘s SiriusXM show on Friday to discuss Trump’s false claim that 3,000 people did not die in Puerto Rico following massive hurricane last year.
“Donald does not see people who are not white as people,” Johnston said. “And he’s been like this for a long, long time. This not a newly acquired or strange thing.”
He pointed to an anecdote from John R. O’Donnell’s book, detailing his time spent as the former Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino President.
O’Donnell claimed that Trump refused to have a black accountant.
“The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day,” Trump reportedly said.
Judicial proceedings against the president and longtime New York businessman have found that he discriminated against blacks, women, Asians and Puerto Ricans, Johnston added.
Trump tweeted Thursday without evidence that the Puerto Rican death toll from Hurricane Maria had been inflated by Democrats to make him look bad.
"3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths," Trump tweeted. "As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3000."
His claim contradicted recent studies that found the death toll to be significantly higher than originally reported.
Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló in a statement on Thursday said "it is a fact" that 2,975 people died following the devastating hurricane.
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This is only a false claim if the 3,000 figure is proved correct. In fact, it's only an estimate using very dubious statistical methods, and very likely to be proved wrong.
Because everyone knows that the computer models that came up with the figure close to 3,000 deaths are much more accurate than the actual records.
Does this xxxx ever end?
And yet the Dems were FORCED to drag out a bunch of leftist babes to go after Trump, because no minority person, of the thousands that worked with him, was willing to go on record and lie about it.
‘The Perp.;
I know the type; bearded, profane dwarves that are extremely aggressive in their hatred, willing to destroy a friendship rather than yield an inch of their rancor...
Jesus, those eyes. Those are the eyes of pure crazy.
Then, why does he high black people along with people of other colors?
Bull shit; this is a lie.
Of course, Trump is the only country club owner in that hoity-toity neck of the woods who allowed blacks and Jews to join. None of the other owners permitted that. Trump insisted. Riiiight; he’s racist.
I want to know what drugs the democrats sit up all night doing to keep coming up with this stuff? Got to be a serious hallucinogen.
Yep, because accounting is in their DNA. Seriously, they have intergenerational transference for talent and appreciation of that skill set. It runs from generation to the next.
A great accountant can make you wealthy.
A mediocre to poor accountant can break you.
The last time I checked, Puerto Ricans were mostly white.
Hahaha That’s funny...
A good progressive would point out that the article is ultimately about brown people not black people. They won’t dispute your point but will accuse Donaldus Magnus of bigotry toward PRs.
My God, these people are stupid.
marco
Did any of the journalists take the time to count the number of obituaries published in the local newspapers or the public records?
Did a survey of funeral homes generate supporting evidence of increased these 3000 deaths?
The local cemeteries should have had a number of new grave sites.
If you thought my post was a Trump-bashing post, then a break is certainly in order for you.
Sometimes that’s really necessary. I felt that way with all the Catholic bashing two weeks ago. Take a rest - it helps.
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