Trump Arrogantly Refuses To Apologize To Black Community Over Birtherism Issue

by | Sep 27, 2016 | News | 0 comments

We all know that Donald Trump finally admitted that President Obama was born in the United States, after years of claiming otherwise and using the issue to bolster the beginning of his political career and presidential bid.

However, when questioned in yesterday’s debate as to whether he would apologize to the African American community, his absolute arrogance shinned through.

Below is the video and partial transcript of the exchange, start the video at 58:44:

Clinton: I give credit, across the board, going back two mayors, two police chiefs, because it has worked. And other communities need to come together to do what will work as well. Look, one murder is too many. But it is important that we learn from things that were effective but not from things that sound good but don’t have the impact that we would want. Who disagrees with keeping neighborhoods safe, but let’s also add, no one should disagree about respecting the rights of young men who live in those neighborhoods. So we need to do a better job of working, again, with the communities, faith communities, business communities, as well as the police, to try to deal with this problem.

Holt: This conversation is about race.

Trump: I’d like to respond if I might.

Holt: Please respond, then I have a follow up question.

Trump: Look, the African-American community has been let down by our politicians. They talk good around election time, like right now. And after the election they say see you later, I’ll see you in four year of the African American community, they’ve been abused and used in order to get votes by Democrats and politicians.

They’ve controlled these communities for up to 100 years. I’ll tell you, you look at the inner cities, and I left Detroit and Philadelphia and you’ve seen me. I’ve been all over the place. You decided to stay home, and that’s okay. But I will tell you. I’ve been all over, and I’ve met some of the greatest people I’ll ever meet within these communities, and they are very, very upset with what their politicians have told them and what their politicians have done.

Clinton: I think Donald just criticized me for preparing for this debate. And yes, I did. And you know what else I prepared for? I prepared to be president. And I think that’s a good thing.

Holt: Mr. Trump, for five years you’ve perpetuated a false claim of the nation’s first black president was not a natural-born citizen. You questioned his legitimacy.

In the last couple weeks you acknowledged what most Americans have accepted for years, the president was born in the united States, can you tell us what took you so long?

Trump: I’ll tell you, very simple to say. Sidney Blumenthal works for the campaign and close are, very close friend of secretary Clinton. And her campaign manager, Patty Doyle, went to, during the campaign, her campaign against Obama — Patty Doyle was on Wolf Blitzer, saying that this happened. Blumenthal sent McClatchy, highly respected reporter to Kenya to find out about it.

They were pressing it very hard. She failed to get the birth certificate. When I got involved, I didn’t fail. I got him to give the birth certificate. So I’m satisfied with it, and I’ll tell you why I’m satisfied with it, because I want to get on to defeating ISIS. Because I want to get on to creating jobs. Because I want to get on to having a strong border. Because I want to get on to things that are very important to me, and that are very important to the country.

Holt: I’ll let you respond, it’s important, but I just want to get answer — the birth certificate was produced in 2011. You continued to tell the story and question the president’s legitimacy in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, as recently as January. So the question is, what changed your mind?

Trump: Well, nobody was pressing it. Nobody was caring much about it figured you’d asked question tonight, but I was one that got them to produce the birth certificate, and I think I did a good job. Secretary Clinton also fought it, you know everyone in mainstream’s going to say that’s not true. It’s true. Sidney Blumenthal sent the reporter. You just have to take a look at CNN, the interview with your former campaign manager, and she was involved. But just like she can’t bring back jobs, she can’t produce.

Holt: I’m sorry, I will let you respond to that. There’s a lot there. But we’re talking about racial healing in this statement.

Trump: I say nothing, because I was able to get him to produce it. He should have produced it a long time before. I say nothing, but when you talk about healing, I think that I’ve developed very, very good relationships, over the last little while with the African-American community, I think you can see that. And I feel that they really wanted me to come to that conclusion, and I think I did a great job and a great service, not only for the country, but even for the president in getting him to produce his birth certificate.

Holt: Secretary Clinton?

Clinton: Well, just listen to what you heard. [ Laughter ] And clearly, as Donald just admitted, he knew he was going to stand on this debate stage and Lester holt was going to be asking us questions, so he tried to put the whole racist/birther lie to bed, but it can’t be dismissed that easily. He has really started his political activity based on this racist lie that our first black president was not an American citizen. There was absolutely no evidence for it, but he persisted.

He persisted year after year, because some of his supporters, people that he was trying to bring into his fold, apparently believed it or wanted to believe it. But remember, Donald started his career back in 1973, being sued by the justice department for racial discrimination.
Because he would not rent apartments in one of his developments to African-Americans, and he made sure that the people who worked for him understood that was the policy.

He actually was sued twice by the justice department. So he has a long record of engaging in racist behavior. And the birther lie was a very hurtful one. And you know, Barack Obama is a man of great dignity. And I could tell how much it bothered him and annoyed him that this was being touted and used against him, but I like to remember what Michelle Obama said in her amazing speech at our democratic national convention. When they go low, we go high. And Barack Obama went high. Despite Donald Trump’s best efforts to bring him down.

Holt: Mr. Trump, you can respond. And we’re going to move on to the next segment.

Trump: I’d like that respond. I got to watch in preparing for your debates for Barack Obama you treated him with terrible disrespect. And I watch the way you talk now about how lovely everything is. It doesn’t work that way. Were you after him, you were trying to, you even sent out pictures of him in a certain garb, very famous pictures, I don’t think you can deny that. But just last week your campaign manager said it was true. So when you try to act holier than thou, it really doesn’t work. As far as the lawsuit, yes, when I was very young, I went into my father’s company.

And we, along with many, many other companies throughout the country were sued. We settled the suit with no admission of guilt. Zero. I notice the nasty commercials that you do on me in so many different ways, which I don’t do on you, maybe I’m trying to save the money, but frankly, I look at that, and I say, isn’t that amazing, because I settled that lawsuit, with no admission of guilt. But that was a lawsuit brought against many real estate firms, and it’s just one of those things, I’ll go one step further. In Palm Beach, Florida, tough community, a brilliant community, probably the wealthiest in the world.

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I opened a club, and really got great credit for it.

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No discrimination against African-Americans, against Muslims, against anybody.

And it’s a tremendously successful club, and I’m so glad I did it, and I have been given great credit for what I did.

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And I’m very, very proud of it. And that’s the way I feel. That is the true way I feel.

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