Fox News, Feb. 15-17: Trump’s support among blacks was 10 percent. That’s within the margin of error, which was plus or minus 9 points. USA Today/Suffolk, Feb. 11-15: Trump got 7 percent. The poll provided no margin of error.
From the outset of his campaign, Trump was endorsed by various white nationalist and white supremacist movements and leaders. On February 24, 2016, David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon, expressed vocal support for Trump's campaign on his radio show.
Ballotpedia has identified the following individuals as legal counsel for the Trump campaign: Thomas Midanek: Midanek was announced as Trump's Virginia state director in July 2016 but was transferred out of the state in early September 2016.
In June 2016, Trump hired Jason Miller to assist the communications operation. On July 1, 2016, Trump announced he hired Kellyanne Conway, a veteran GOP strategist and canvasser, for a senior advisory position. Conway, who formerly backed Cruz, was expected to advise Trump on how to better appeal to female voters.
Ed Brookover, Trump's senior advisor who helped organize the Republican National Convention, was fired from the campaign on August 1, 2016. According to Politico, Brookover's firing was part of a "campaign shakeup," and two other Trump aides, William McGinley and Mike McSherry, were set to take on expanded roles in the campaign.
After being hired in April as an advisor to the campaign, McKay left in early June to advise the pro-Trump super PAC Rebuilding America Now. The super PAC told NBC News that McKay was a volunteer for Trump's campaign and that his decision to join the super PAC did not violate federal laws on coordination.
The second phase of the campaign began when Trump's hiring and promotion shifted from the non-traditional to more established consultants.
In March 2016, as the potential for a contested convention increased, Trump hired Paul Manafort —who has worked in presidential politics since the 1976 Republican convention—as his convention manager. Trump also promoted Michael Glassner, a longtime aide to former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.), to deputy campaign manager.
Sam Nunberg, an advisor to Donald Trump since early 2014, arranged in February 2014 for Buzzfeed writer McCay Coppins to write a profile on Trump for the website. When it was published, the profile cast Trump in a negative light, calling him "a man startled by his suddenly fading relevance — and consumed by a desperate need to get it back." When the article appeared, Nunberg was fired. In April 2014, however, Nunberg was rehired to his same position.
Trump said that he fired Stone, while Stone told the press that he resigned. In an interview on April 5, 2016, Stone commented on what he would do if the presidential nominating convention is contested: “. We will disclose the hotels and the room numbers of those delegates who are directly involved in the steal.
On May 25, 2016, National Political Director Rick Wiley and the Trump campaign parted ways. According to Politico, Wiley had previously been in an altercation with Karen Giorno, a Trump advisor who ran the primary campaign in Florida. The article noted, "For weeks, Wiley made appointments and had discussions with Florida Republicans and appeared to be building a new campaign from scratch, sources say. They say he refused, at times, to return Giorno’s calls or take them." On May 25, the Trump campaign issued a statement, saying, "Rick Wiley was hired on a short-term basis as a consultant until the campaign was running full steam. It is now doing better than ever, we are leading in the polls, and we have many exciting events ready to go, far ahead of schedule while Hillary continues her long, boring quest against Bernie."
The very first time he appeared in the pages of the New York Times, back in the 1970s, was when the US Department of Justice sued him for racial discrimination.
In the aftermath, he signed an agreement in 1975 agreeing not to discriminate to renters of color without admitting to discriminating before. 1980s: Kip Brown, a former employee at Trump’s Castle, accused another of Trump’s businesses of discrimination.
Trump has repeatedly insulted and objectified women over the decades. Trump’s scorn does not, however, stop at minority Americans. Over the decades, he has also repeatedly targeted individual women with nasty comments — mostly focused on their appearance. And he has been accused at least twice of sexual assault.
The President and the Democratic party have dismantled Americans’ system of healthcare. They have replaced it with a costly and complicated scheme that limits choices and takes away our freedom. The President and the Democratic party have abandoned their promise of being accountable to the American people.
CLEVELAND ― After a week of wrangling, Republican delegates officially voted on Monday to adopt their 2016 platform, a policy blueprint that manages to take ultraconservative positions on same-sex marriage, religion, pornography, and even national parks.
The platform openly opposes marriage for gay and transgender people, states “ that man-made law must be consistent with God-given, natural rights ,” and calls on the U.S. government to transfer all federally controlled lands to states. Download.
D’Antonio, the biographer, met with Trump shortly after the settlement was announced. The billionaire was once again considering a shot at the presidency and would, this time, actually run. Trump was asked if he worried that his publicly confrontational style would affect his political prospects.
The case came to embody not only fears that accompanied the dramatic rise of violent crime in New York, but also its perceived racial dynamics. The case of a black woman, raped the same day in Brooklyn by two men who threw her from the roof of a four-storey building, received little media attention.
In February 2000, when Trump was again flirting with a run for the White House, he took out anonymous ads in local upstate New York newspapers, in an effort to shut down a rival casino backed by a group of Native Americans.
Wise, who had remained in the city’s notorious Rikers Island jail, was sentenced as an adult. Michael Warren, the veteran New York civil rights lawyer who would later come to represent the Central Park Five, is certain that Trump’s advertisements played a role in securing conviction.
Just two weeks after the Central Park attack, before any of the boys had faced trial and while Meili remained critically ill in a coma, Donald Trump, whose office on Fifth Avenue commanded an exquisite view of the park’s opulent southern frontier, intervened.