Trump staffers use offensive memes to make fun of Blacks and Hispanics

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By Rob Wile

A recent BuzzFeed report suggested that Donald Trump was seeking new ways to curry favor with Latinos. He could use a boost. A July Pew poll found that Latino voters favor Hillary Clinton over Trump by a whopping 66% to 24%. Maybe that’s because Trump has previously called Mexican immigrants drug dealers, criminals and rapists, and insulted a judge’s Mexican heritage. It’s no wonder that even Latina Republicans are calling him racist.

So…it’s probably not great that his staffers are sharing racist memes of Mexicans on social media. But, according to a new report in the Associated Press, that’s exactly what’s happening.

The wire service looked at the social media accounts of 50 current and former Trump campaign employees and found a cornucopia of badness.

For instance, Craig Bachler, Trump’s statewide director of coalitions shared this offensive meme showing an overweight Mexican man wearing a sombrero that made fun of his English.

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The AP found other extremely bad posts from many different corners of the Trump campaign. One graphic designer for Trump’s advance team posted video of a black man eating fried chicken and criticizing fellow blacks for ignorance, irresponsibility and having too many children. A state field director shared a post June 30 calling Islam “a barbaric cult.” And one suggested Edible Arrangements was funneling money to Hamas. (That is an old, false rumor that has been thoroughly debunked.)

This is hardly Trump’s first time having to deal with staffers who stray into deeply racist territory. Last August, the campaign fired a staffer for allegedly writing racially charged and disparaging posts dating back to 2007. One called civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton’s daughter the n-word, and another called President Barack Obama a “Socialist Marxist Islamo Fascist Nazi Appeaser,” CNN reported.

Bachler and the Trump campaign did not respond to emailed requests for comment.

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Avatar LiLSpeedy -
#1
Trump's racist attitude is reflected in some of his staffers stereotypical view of Blacks and Hispanics. Trump speaks out of both sides of his ORANGE lips. He says one thing in front of his mostly white audience and another in front of a more diverse audience. Most of the things he says is 97% gibberish and lies, and 3% half-truths. His target audience is low-information and uneducated repubs.
Avatar Lucky Loser -
#2
Well, in the end, we all know that because he's who he is and says what he does, he can get away with most anything. Conversely, any Democrat that would've taken this same road as Trump in terms of language, temperament, and all else would've been taken out from jump street by both sides. What's so sad is that all his supporters would have to bite the bullet if their own bosses treated and talked to them this way. Wonder what happens if some random guy runs up and just grabs himself a handful of some other guy's wife's 'goodies?' If any of them ever see someone making fun of a disabled/handicap person, they have no room to intervene because none of them intervened when Trump clearly done it himself to two people.

The list goes on and on and so does his supporters' desperation. This man is now due in court so that the whole Trump U deal can be heard and, it's very serious but, his supporters could care less. In the last debate, it was made crystal clear that none the numbers in his economic outlook made any sense whatsoever, and, will actually demolish the not great but stable economy we currently have. I'll be so glad when it's all over in two days. I never knew that such easily disillusioned and desperate people existed. I don't hate any of them but, boy, will I be ever mindful of who I'm dealing with from now on.

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