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Trump and the N-Word
By rmrd0000 on Tue, 08/14/2018 - 8:40am |There would really be no surprise if a tape of Trump using the word nigger exists. His 42% approval rating would not budge. During the campaign their were rumors that Trump used the word in a discussion about a black male contestant. Mark Burnett, the executive producer of the Apprentice has put the series tapes in a vault. Trump says that Mark Burnett called and told him that no incriminating tape exists. I should make clear that I think Trump is a racist so I am skeptical. If Trump didn’t use the word, he wouldn’t need Burnett to remind him that he didn’t use the word.
Trump was able to brush of comments until Omarosa had to plug her book. She produced a snippet of a tape recorded in the White House with staffers discussing how to handle Trump using the word nigger.
From the article
Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman said Tuesday that she secretly recorded several of President Donald Trump’s campaign aides discussing how to handle potential fallout if an alleged video of Trump using a racial slur surfaced. The tape was played on CBS This Morning.
Manigault Newman, promoting her new book Unhinged, released the tape to CBS News. She identified the three Trump campaign aides as Katrina Pierson, a spokeswoman for the campaign; Lynne Patton, an assistant to Trump’s son Eric; and Jason Miller, chief spokesman for the campaign.
Manigault Newman said she did not hear the recording of Trump using the slur until after she finished writing Unhinged.
“I had an opportunity to fly out to California, and the person allowed me to hear it,” she told CBS News. “Had I heard it while working in the White House, I would have left immediately.”
Pierson told Fox News on Sunday that Manigault Newman was the first member of the Trump campaign to discuss the so-called “Apprentice” tape of Trump allegedly using a slur on the set of the reality show he starred in. Pierson said neither Miller nor Patton have any idea what she was talking about.
Here is Trump’s Twitter response
When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn’t work out. Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog!
Trump calls Omarosa a dog. Really! A female dog is a .....
Katrina Pierson is a liar.
This is the Trump White House
URL:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/omarosa-releases-tape-of-trump-campaign-aides-discussing-alleged-n-word-tape_us_5b72b5dae4b0ae32af9b774d
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The WaPo covers the controversy. A statement from Rep. Fredrica S. Wilson, the women defamed by John Kelly.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-calls-manigault-newman-that-dog-as-she-continues-publicity-tour/2018/08/14/d0956e2c-9fb1-11e8-93e3-24d1703d2a7a_story.html?utm_term=.159118b03a06
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 08/14/2018 - 9:00am
I really don't see what difference it makes - he's been telling us to suck his dick for 2 years. What verbal endearments he adds to the request hardly seem important. #StopTalkingJustImpeachTheFucker
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 08/14/2018 - 10:52am
This helps with GOTV.
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 08/14/2018 - 11:42am
This is all part of the act...
Hours and inches are wasted on this non-story, while there is no in-depth reporting on Brett Kavanaugh being rushed through Congress. McConnell says time is of the essence to get him approved. I guess even he can’t figure out a way to justify why. Scalia died in February. McConnell would not even consider a nominee until January of the next year. Silence from the Media on this
There are hundreds of children who had been kidnapped by our government and who are still in limbo. Where is the journalistic research on how this got started, who planned for it, who PROFITTED by it, and why has no one gone to jail over this?
Russia is already interfering with elections that are very soon, (were predicted) and there are no plans to combat this. In fact the GOP has blocked efforts to combat this.
The idiot child in the WH has secret meetings and conferences with despots, but not with Mueller. Why? Because his lawyers know he will lie because he is a liar.
Our infrastructure is falling apart, the GOP has successfully sabotaged the ACA, working on ruining Planned Parenthood, our allies don’t trust us (and they are right), and trump could start a nuke war if he gets up on the wrong side of the bed.
I could go on, but Omarosa and Donald have the nation’s (media) attention. Go ahead, Fake News, real news, and newsy news. Because whether the donald ever said, “nigger” matters more than all of the above.
by CVille Dem on Tue, 08/14/2018 - 7:39pm
Excellent point, and one we seem to keep forgetting ....
by barefooted on Tue, 08/14/2018 - 7:55pm
No one is forgetting any of those things. Trump attacked Omarosa. Trump called Omarosa a female dog. This can be used to encourage voting to decrease the impact of the GOP. Voting because you are sick and tired of being sick and tired is important. Many people can’t wait to vote. This helps in getting more to the polls.
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 08/14/2018 - 8:11pm
This is simply not true and it annoys me when people say it. All these stories are being covered extensively. Perhaps if you're getting all your news from a Facebook news feed Omarosa is all you get. I don't know since I don't use Facebook. But every major news site I read is covering all the stories.
Look at the front page of WaPo. "Trump and McConnell are reshaping the federal judiciary. There's a couple of articles about the PA Catholic church's child sex abuse scandal. The red tide in Florida. The on going Manafort trial. Of course Omarosa is there too but it's just one of many stories.
by ocean-kat on Tue, 08/14/2018 - 8:35pm
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/us/politics/kavanaugh-vouchers-religious-education.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/us/politics/trump-omarosa-dog.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/world/europe/turkey-lira-prices.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
Really? I don’t see any in-depth reporting on the things I mentioned. The only exception I saw was this one WAPO article, but also not very much in depth:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/with-little-fanfare-trump-and-mcconnell-reshape-the-nations-circuit-courts/2018/08/14/10610028-9fcd-11e8-93e3-24d1703d2a7a_story.html?utm_term=.fdb41403ebc2
In-depth reporting seems only to happen about stuff that belongs on tabloids.
by CVille Dem on Tue, 08/14/2018 - 9:23pm
This is not a little thing. Trump called a black woman a dog. He called black men SOBs. He called Mexicans rapists. He incited violence at his rallies and said that he would pay legal fees. He talked about grabbing vaginas. He found good people among Nazis. He calls black people low IQ and stupid. This is an outrage. People can’t wait to go to the polls. Sarah Huckabee Sanders could not guarantee that there was not a recording of Trump saying nigger. We have a racist in the White House. This is not trivial.
People know that he kidnapped babies. People know that he is a Russian puppet. He is going to go down as the worst President in history.
Trump had heel spurs and avoided service. He criticized McCain who was shot down over North Vietnam. McCain had the hell beaten out of him. Trump refused to name McCain in a defense bill that carries McCain’s name. We know Trump is trash, but we also know that he is a racist.
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 08/14/2018 - 10:13pm
RM and OK are right, this stuff is covered, for the small subset of Americans who read and can comprehend in depth reporting. Forget TV reporting it's always both sides eyeball$ blah blah opinion havers like worthless David Brooks, or Fox propaganda.
Right now the 3rd best selling book at Amazon is "The Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump".
All the things Trump is doing the Republican base loves. Right down to the kids in cages.
Elections have consequences. Many are hopefully realizing that, but a little late.
If Dems can ever get a President and 51 Senate votes they should pack the court with 2 35 year old liberals. Norms are history, and the Constitution does not mandate 9 Supremes. If Dems get power they have to use it until the GOP cries uncle and concrete irreversible laws or Amendments are passed to save this country as a democracy where the majority must have some power.
by NCD on Tue, 08/14/2018 - 11:05pm
It's not like ever topic is front page news every single day. If there's not an article about Kavanaugh today there was probably one the day before or there will be one tomorrow. I just read several articles a couple of days ago about the rush to confirm when McConnell announced his hearings would start Sept 4. When the hearings begin the coverage will be overwhelming no matter what else is in the news.
There are so many news sites with so much space to fill that every story is reported to death. If you're not getting the information you're looking for it's a choice not the fault of the media focusing on what you consider trivial.
eta: As I predicted the Daily Beast just put up an article about Kavanaugh.
by ocean-kat on Wed, 08/15/2018 - 4:06am
Strikes me that people see the old problem of herd thing on coverage if they are very political and into politics. It's the horse race problem, everyone into politics wants a fight/meme/debate of the day and to see who wins it and are passionate and not interested in calmly sitting back and watching what goes on.
The big three cable TV news networks still do that-CNN and Fox News and MSNBC-and it's fed by ratings by political junkies. Or in less political times-the Jon Benet Ramsey murder, for example.
But outside of them, since the internet, it was never really true.The "MSM" also included CNBC, Fox Business and Bloomberg. People who want real information and data rather than political kabuki show or allegorical dramas have always been a considerable market. Think WSJ: if they did a lot of politics rather than analyze it, they'd have lost their subscription base long ago.
Nowadays, many oldsters don't realize that the millennial generation isn't paying any attention to TV at all nor to these old problems. It's dying. So it's a complaint about dinosaur ways. There's a new paradigm with new problems. For example, one of the problems is that local news coverage can't figure out a way to pay for itself. And few volunteer citizen journalists are sitting through those town council meetings and tweeting out what's going on.
Edit to add: it's something I used to like to argue with Josh Marshall about in the early days of TPM Cafe. He himself was very talented at long-form journalism and analysis. But he just loved himself some meme of the day political horse race and would keep talking about promoting "activist journalism." I couldn't see how he couldn't see those two things were in opposition to each other when you have ratings based funding of the news. Again: water over the damn now, because millennials are into being their own editor and their own "curator" of realities and narrative.
by artappraiser on Wed, 08/15/2018 - 12:22pm
In an interview with Vulture, Penn Jillette says that he heard Donald Trump use racially insensitive words during his time on Apprentice. Jillette says there are tapes
http://www.vulture.com/2018/08/penn-jillette-in-conversation.html
by rmrd0000 on Wed, 08/15/2018 - 4:09pm
It would be unfair to play the tapes if Trump was playing a role. Not if they showed who he really was. It's not like he was playing a racist misogynist in some Tarentino movie. It's not like he was pretending to be someone because that's what the role called for. A character played in a movie tells us nothing about the real person behind the character. But these tapes reveal the true character of Trump. They're the reality behind the "reality" show. It would not be at all unfair to use them against him.
by ocean-kat on Wed, 08/15/2018 - 5:05pm
I don't know - when Al Franken the comedian goes home or to a restaurant, he's a different person than Al Franken the Senator going home or to a restaurant. Your day gig leaves its lingering impact, not just a uniform you take off and that's it. "Who we are" is influenced by our environment - we're not islands (though your setup is close)
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 08/15/2018 - 8:55pm