{"id":31801,"date":"2018-08-14T23:57:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T23:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31801"},"modified":"2018-08-15T00:01:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T00:01:10","slug":"do-we-need-tape-recordings-to-prove-racist-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31801","title":{"rendered":"Do we need tape recordings to prove racist view?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/180808-swin-tani-omarosa-trump-tease_cs5jso.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31763\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/180808-swin-tani-omarosa-trump-tease_cs5jso-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/180808-swin-tani-omarosa-trump-tease_cs5jso-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/180808-swin-tani-omarosa-trump-tease_cs5jso-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/180808-swin-tani-omarosa-trump-tease_cs5jso-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/180808-swin-tani-omarosa-trump-tease_cs5jso.jpg 1480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Omarosa Manigault Newman has dropped a few stools in the punch bowl regarding her former boss and (apparently) former friend, Donald John Trump.<\/p>\n<p>She says she has heard tape recordings of the future president using the n-word to describe &#8220;Celebrity Apprentice&#8221; contestants. He account has been backed up by illusionist Penn Gillette, who says he heard Trump say it in the moment.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s written a book about her time as a special White House assistant, a post she left when chief of staff John Kelly fired her. Newman recorded the termination that occurred in the Situation Room, which is a serious breach of national security protocol. That, however, is a whole other story.<\/p>\n<p>But I have to ask: Do we really need to hear these recordings to verify what has been virtually obvious? I mean, consider the following.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump fomented the lie about our first African American president&#8217;s place of birth.<\/li>\n<li>He also challenged Barack Obama&#8217;s academic credentials that admitted him to Harvard Law.<\/li>\n<li>Trump denigrates the intelligence of U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, CNN News anchor Don Lemon and pro basketball superstar LeBron James &#8230; all prominent African American public figures.<\/li>\n<li>The president calls NFL football players protesting police brutality &#8212; the players are virtually all black &#8212; &#8220;sons of bitches.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>And all the while, he declines to issue a categorical condemnation of white supremacists, Klansmen and neo-Nazis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Does the president refer to white critics as being less than intelligent? Why in the world did he continue to promote the defamatory lie that questioned President Obama&#8217;s constitutional right to seek the presidency? And why can&#8217;t the president bring himself to condemn hate groups such as the Klan exclusively? He recently watered down such &#8220;condemnation&#8221; with that sterile &#8220;all types of racism&#8221; qualifier.<\/p>\n<p>Again, I ask: Do we really need to hear these recordings to validate what many millions of Americans &#8212; including me &#8212; believe about the man who&#8217;s been elected president of the United States of America?<\/p>\n<p>This individual is a racist.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omarosa Manigault Newman has dropped a few stools in the punch bowl regarding her former boss and (apparently) former friend, Donald John Trump. She says she has heard tape recordings of the future president using the n-word to describe &#8220;Celebrity Apprentice&#8221; contestants. He account has been backed up by illusionist Penn Gillette, who says he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31801\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Do we need tape recordings to prove racist view?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7932],"tags":[540,6860,6735,2692,7244,7470,3808,7955,5246],"class_list":["post-31801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","tag-barack-obama","tag-birtherism","tag-celebrity-apprentice","tag-kkk","tag-neo-nazis","tag-omarosa","tag-racism","tag-racist","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31802,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31801\/revisions\/31802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}