Donald Trump kept book of Hitler speeches on his nightstand, ex-wife claims
GOP presidential hopeful and real estate billionaire Donald Trump has been under scrutiny for his troubling views on race. Now, Business Insider has dug up a 1990 interview with his former wife, Ivana, in which she says Trump kept a book of Hitler speeches near his bed.
“Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed,” according to the 1990 story.
Trump, who is of German ancestry, told Vanity Fair at the time that his friend, “who is Jewish” gave him the book. His friend confirmed that he did, but clarified that he is not in fact Jewish. Trump later tried to backpedal and say that if he had the speeches, he would never read them.
Trump announced his run for presidency with overtly racist descriptions of Mexican migrants as drug runners and rapists. He has discussed building a giant wall at the U.S.-Mexico border with a “big beautiful door” in it.
His racially-charged attacks on people aren’t new. In 1989, Trump took out full-page ads in four New York newspapers calling for reinstatement of the death penalty for the five young boys — four black and one Latino — who were convicted in the infamous Central Park jogger case.
The case took on racial overtones, with the boys called the “wolf pack” and accused of “wilding’ by authorities — a term invented to refer to running amok causing damage and harm.
The five accused were later cleared of all wrongdoing after serving their full sentences. Even then, Trump took to the New York Daily News in an op-ed slamming the city of New York for settling a lawsuit with them for $40 million.
This week, Trump insulted Jorge Ramos, a Mexican-American journalist. Ramos tried to ask Trump a question about his vow to deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. when Trump interrupted him, telling him to sit down and go back to Univision.
Breaking Banner
‘The next Obama’: Why GOP operatives think Trump should be terrified of Kamala Harris
With the second round of the Democratic debates coming next week, the horse race analysis is reaching peak levels. Should Democrats pick Joe Biden in the hopes of peeling off working class white voters? Is it time to go with a woman or a person of color?
Writing in Vanity Fair, journalist David M. Drucker writes that Trump's biggest fear should be Sen. Kamala Harris, a view affirmed by her tough and effective attacks on Biden at the last debate.
Drucker says that Harris would be a tough opponent because she might drive up the black vote. Additionally, she might appeal to suburban female voters turned off by Trump's style.
Breaking Banner
‘Facebook is a crime scene’: Filmmakers show how social media used to run ‘psychological experiments’ on voters
Two documentary filmmakers appeared on MSNBC with Stephanie Ruhle on Thursday to discuss their latest movie about the way social media is manipulated to conduct what they described as "psychological experiments" on voters.
Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim, whose new movie "The Great Hack" premieres on Netflix this week, told Ruhle that they found that companies such as Cambridge Analytica had brilliantly exploited Facebook's algorithms to push out misinformation about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
But even looking past the 2016 election, they say that Facebook has served as what amounts to a platform for unethical research about human behavior.
In a scathing exposé in the Washington Post, the former editor of the Liberty University's school paper accused school President Jerry Falwell Jr. of leading the fundamentalist Christian school away from Jesus with a focus on supporting President Donald Trump instead.
According to Will E. Young, now an editorial assistant at Sojourners magazine, his time as editor in chief, when he was a senior, of the Champion, Liberty University’s student-run weekly, was filled with turmoil that also included forced apologies for not toeing the school line.
WATCH: Jim Jordan has a meltdown over Ivanka Trump subpoena – and then gets schooled by Rashida Tlaib
‘Forgive me for ever being a Republican’: Here’s how right-wingers reacted to Mueller’s testimony
Jeffrey Epstein was found injured on the floor of his prison cell: report
Sheriff hopping mad after Mike Pence skips out on $24,000 bill at $700,000 campaign fundraiser
Trump brutally mocked for ‘tweeting like a frightened 12-year-old’ after Mueller wraps up damning testimony
‘The next Obama’: Why GOP operatives think Trump should be terrified of Kamala Harris
‘Facebook is a crime scene’: Filmmakers show how social media used to run ‘psychological experiments’ on voters
REVEALED: Jerry Falwell’s Liberty U is forcing students to become soldiers for Trump
The death of Neil Armstrong and a $6 million secret
US, Afghanistan agree to accelerate Afghan peace talks
Trump makes up a new word and lauds his Pentagon chief for serving in ‘infantroopen’
Meghan McCain gets more than she bargained for after demanding ‘smoking gun’ evidence from Adam Schiff
‘Taking his ball and going home’: Angry GOP lawmaker storms out of hearing after getting shamed by Gerry Connolly
Joe Biden: Trump ‘close to treasonous’ for stating he would accept campaign dirt from foreign countries
