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Greg Evans
Feb 13, 2020
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In recent days the Trump family has launched an all-out attack on Democratic candidate Mike Bloomberg, after he was accused of racism.
This is due to a 2015 clip that emerged of Bloomberg defending stop and frisk techniques in minority neighbourhoods.
The hashtag #BloombergIsARacist began to trend and the audio clip was shared by Donald Trump Jr, who lambasted the Democrat.
Omg! Leaked audio of Mike Bloomberg talking about the high crime rates among urban minorities. “And the way to ge… https://t.co/8S5b7pcX5p— Donald Trump Jr. (@Donald Trump Jr.) 1581423805
Trump Jr probably wasn't expecting Bloomberg to reply to his tweet but he did get a rise out of Tim O'Brien, the senior adviser to Bloomberg who proceeded to tell the president's son about all of the blatantly racist things that his old man has said and done.
In a 20 tweet thread (yes, 20) O'Brien listed why the Trumps have virtually no credentials for calling someone out on racism and went into extensive lengths on Bloomberg's apology.
1/x: Omg! Your father is the most overt and flagrantly hateful racist and bigot of the modern presidency and nothin… https://t.co/XCpp5g013W— Tim O'Brien (@Tim O'Brien) 1581445590
2/x: Your dad and his father, Fred, ran a housing business that the Justice Department censured in 1973 for discrim… https://t.co/5qVBnFAxhd— Tim O'Brien (@Tim O'Brien) 1581445652
3/x: Jack O’Donnell, a senior executive at your dad’s Atlantic City casinos during the 1980s, described him as some… https://t.co/UQobmEbV7B— Tim O'Brien (@Tim O'Brien) 1581445745
5/x: When he was running his casino business, your dad paid for a series of newspaper and broadcast ads that sought… https://t.co/EHt3TivIw9— Tim O'Brien (@Tim O'Brien) 1581445806
6/x: Your mom, Ivana Trump, told her lawyer during your parents divorce that your dad kept a copy of Hitler’s colle… https://t.co/2xmpRp3z6R— Tim O'Brien (@Tim O'Brien) 1581445889
7/x: Your dad embraced birtherism in 2011 and falsely asserted that President Barack Obama was born overseas and ha… https://t.co/5mU3rZIwmz— Tim O'Brien (@Tim O'Brien) 1581445927
8/x: While the Trump University lawsuit was being litigated, your dad publicly claimed one of the judges hearing th… https://t.co/nZYqQLDVmw— Tim O'Brien (@Tim O'Brien) 1581445963
9/x: Your dad has often been reluctant to distance himself from white supremacists like the former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.— Tim O'Brien (@Tim O'Brien) 1581445999
11/x: Your dad has unapologetically retweeted white nationalists, and for years has praised himself and others as b… https://t.co/zDJy78WUKU— Tim O'Brien (@Tim O'Brien) 1581446150
12/x: Michael Cohen, your dad’s former lawyer, testified before Congress that “Mr. Trump is a racist.”— Tim O'Brien (@Tim O'Brien) 1581446208
13/x: Cohen also recalled a trip with your dad: “While we were once driving through a struggling neighborhood in Ch… https://t.co/xkrUQ3q4v7— Tim O'Brien (@Tim O'Brien) 1581446250
14/x: -- In White House meetings, your dad has inveighed against allowing immigrants from “shithole countries” into… https://t.co/4R9rGH0zcA— Tim O'Brien (@Tim O'Brien) 1581446290
15/x: In the wake of the Charlottesville marches in 2017, your dad famously couldn’t bring himself to promptly cond… https://t.co/gRbO0OPOZN— Tim O'Brien (@Tim O'Brien) 1581446341
16/x: Last year, your dad suggested that four Democratic congresswomen of color, three of whom were born in the U.S… https://t.co/3hZp8NuEBx— Tim O'Brien (@Tim O'Brien) 1581446414
17/x: Despite a broad public outcry about the leader of the free world unleashing a timeworn racist trope against t… https://t.co/ordLhHufZ4— Tim O'Brien (@Tim O'Brien) 1581446473
18/x: @MikeBloomberg apologized and will continue to apologize for stop and frisk. It was wrong and he stood by it… https://t.co/mT6zIbSbPf— Tim O'Brien (@Tim O'Brien) 1581447833
19/x: Still waiting for your dad to apologize for the racism and bigotry he’s visited upon communities of color at… https://t.co/CxPAeupbCJ— Tim O'Brien (@Tim O'Brien) 1581448136
20/x: While we hold our breath waiting for all of these apologies, also ask your dad about banning travelers from m… https://t.co/XmmY75GEF0— Tim O'Brien (@Tim O'Brien) 1581448906
If that wasn't enough, Bloomberg has also taken aim at Trump, after the president called him a 'mass of dead energy', he will use his financial wealth to try and defeat Bernie Sanders to the Democratic nomination.
Bloomberg didn't care for this and in a quote tweet called Trump 'a carnival barking clown' and said that he has the resources to defeat him.
.@realDonaldTrump - we know many of the same people in NY. Behind your back they laugh at you & call you a carnival… https://t.co/qgTxgUGRIq— Mike Bloomberg (@Mike Bloomberg) 1581601438
He then followed up that with a GIF from the movie Gladiator featuring the quote 'the time for honouring yourself will soon be at an end'.
.@realDonaldTrump https://t.co/t2WRgFpDwM— Mike Bloomberg (@Mike Bloomberg) 1581602799
HT Newsweek
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