What Trump Did To Blacks & Jews 30 Years Ago Just Surfaced. It could Change the Election: https://t.co/bMeMW1VUGF
— MARK SIMONE (@MarkSimoneNY) July 9, 2016
In 1997, “...He put the light on Palm Beach,” said Abe Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League. “Not on the beauty and the glitter, but on its seamier side of discrimination. It has an impact.”
Trump went further, asking the town council to lift the existing restrictions on the club, and sending them a copy of, “Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner,” a film whose characters defy the race-based discrimination of the day....
The town council would not budge, leading Trump to file a $100 million lawsuit alleging the town was “discriminating against Mar-a-Lago, in part because it is open to Jews and African Americans,” reported The American Spectator.
The incident was profiled in a 1997 Wall Street Journal piece that discussed Trump’s clash with Palm Beach. Eventually, Palm Beach put an end to their discriminatory restrictions.
“In other words, long before he was running for president, there was Donald Trump battling racism and anti-Semitism in Palm Beach society. Using every tool at his disposal...”
Something @HillaryClinton has never done.
— Rep. Steven Smith (@RepStevenSmith) July 5, 2016
When Trump Fought the Racists https://t.co/T67KMcrn5T
Liz Crokin - Trump Does The Unthinkable https://t.co/YchF9a347f
— Juli P. (@Zarabette) July 10, 2016
