DOJ: Trump’s Early Businesses Blocked Blacks
Here are the highlights:
Here are the highlights:
- In the 70's he along with his father instructed landlords to deny potential rents of colored. They would do this a number of ways. This included instructing the landlord to attach a blank piece of paper to the application with a big letter C on it, presumably for "colored" so they can be denied or to give black applicants fake applications
- The way he was caught was through the a equal housing group sending "testers" where on the same day they would send white and black applicants to see if there was a difference in responses. Black applicants were informed no units were available while on the same day, several instances where white applicants were informed there were several empty units.
- In one case of testing, a black husband and white wife team did some testing. The black husband was interested in a two bedroom and was told there was nothing available. The white wife on the same day inquired about 2 bedrooms and was informed 2 units were available
- The final kicker was that when ask in the press about this, Trump claimed that they were trying to force him to take in welfare recipients, while several landlords corroborated each other in stating that the rule from the Trumps was to deny specific races of applicants, even if they had the money for the apartment and welfare was never an item of discussion during the process
- An indian man was also almost denied housing until the donald found out he had ties to the UN and they approved his application
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