John Yinger, an economist specializing in residential discrimination, served at the time as an expert witness in a number of fair-housing cases. Nathaniel Jones was the general counsel for the NAACP. The rationale: Consent decrees achieved speedier results with less public rancor. The Justice Department frequently used consent decrees to settle discrimination cases, offering redress to plaintiffs while allowing defendants to avoid an admission of guilt. Company policy, according to an employee quoted in court documents, was to rent only to “Jews and executives.” The government alleged that employees were directed to tell African American lease applicants that there were no open apartments. The Justice Department’s 1973 lawsuit against Trump Management Company focused on 39 properties in New York City. “You Don’t Want to Live With Them Either” Their recollections have been edited for concision and clarity. The Atlantic interviewed a range of people with knowledge of several of those episodes. Instances of bigotry involving Donald Trump span more than four decades. In 2016, Trump described himself to The Washington Post as “ the least racist person that you’ve ever encountered.” His presidential campaign was fueled by nativist sentiment directed at nonwhite immigrants, and he proposed barring Muslims from entering the country. Trump emerged as a political force owing to his full-throated embrace of “ birtherism,” the false charge that the nation’s first black president, Barack Obama, was not born in the United States. His statements have been reflected in his behavior-from public acts (placing ads calling for the execution of five young black and Latino men accused of rape, who were later shown to be innocent) to private preferences (“When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor,” a former employee of Trump’s Castle, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, told a writer for The New Yorker). In the years since then, Trump has assembled a long record of comment on issues involving African Americans as well as Mexicans, Hispanics more broadly, Native Americans, Muslims, Jews, immigrants, women, and people with disabilities.
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