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Karine Jean-Pierre: “Donald Trump started his business career discriminating against black tenants. He started his political career pedaling…”

On the recordMay 30, 2018
Donald Trump started his business career discriminating against black tenants. He started his political career pedaling a conspiracy theory about birtherism. He started his presidential campaign career attaching Mexicans calling them rapists and drug dealers. And then, he kept off his first year of the presidency watching neo-nazis marching in the street of Charlottesville and saying there were very fine people on both sides.
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Karine Jean-Pierre

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Karine Jean-Pierre discusses Donald Trump's history of discrimination and bigotry.

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