Donald Trump loves to promote the fiction that he is a self made man. But he doesn't like to be reminded of his participation in rent discrimination during his process earning his fortune.
Of course not only did he come from a wealthy family, not only did his Daddy bankroll him, but his daddy also made Donald, fresh out of college, the president of the family company- Trump Management Corporation.
And it was as President of Trump Management- that Donald Trump was sued by the Justice Department for refusing to rent to African Americans and hispanics- violating the Fair Housing Act. Charges that Trump ultimately settled.
Inside the government’s racial bias case against Donald Trump’s company, and how he fought it
NEW YORK — When a black woman asked to rent an apartment in a Brooklyn complex managed by Donald Trump’s real estate company, she said she was told that nothing was available. A short time later, a white woman who made the same request was invited to choose between two available apartments.
The two would-be renters on that July 1972 day were actually undercover “testers” for a government-sanctioned investigation to determine whether Trump Management Inc. discriminated against minorities seeking housing at properties across Brooklyn and Queens.
Federal investigators also gathered evidence. Trump employees had secretly marked the applications of minorities with codes, such as “No. 9” and “C” for “colored,” according to government interview accounts filed in federal court. The employees allegedly directed blacks and Puerto Ricans away from buildings with mostly white tenants, and steered them toward properties that had many minorities, the government filings alleged
In October 1973, the Justice Department filed a civil rights case that accused the Trump firm[both Donald and his father were individually named and sued- not just the firm], whose complexes contained 14,000 apartments, of violating the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
The case, one of the biggest federal housing discrimination suits to be brought during that time, put a spotlight on the family empire led by its 27-year-old president, Donald Trump, and his father, Fred Trump, the chairman
This from the man who loves to brag that he has a 'great relationship the blacks'
He just didn't want to have to rent his property to them.
Of course not only did he come from a wealthy family, not only did his Daddy bankroll him, but his daddy also made Donald, fresh out of college, the president of the family company- Trump Management Corporation.
And it was as President of Trump Management- that Donald Trump was sued by the Justice Department for refusing to rent to African Americans and hispanics- violating the Fair Housing Act. Charges that Trump ultimately settled.
Inside the government’s racial bias case against Donald Trump’s company, and how he fought it
NEW YORK — When a black woman asked to rent an apartment in a Brooklyn complex managed by Donald Trump’s real estate company, she said she was told that nothing was available. A short time later, a white woman who made the same request was invited to choose between two available apartments.
The two would-be renters on that July 1972 day were actually undercover “testers” for a government-sanctioned investigation to determine whether Trump Management Inc. discriminated against minorities seeking housing at properties across Brooklyn and Queens.
Federal investigators also gathered evidence. Trump employees had secretly marked the applications of minorities with codes, such as “No. 9” and “C” for “colored,” according to government interview accounts filed in federal court. The employees allegedly directed blacks and Puerto Ricans away from buildings with mostly white tenants, and steered them toward properties that had many minorities, the government filings alleged
In October 1973, the Justice Department filed a civil rights case that accused the Trump firm[both Donald and his father were individually named and sued- not just the firm], whose complexes contained 14,000 apartments, of violating the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
The case, one of the biggest federal housing discrimination suits to be brought during that time, put a spotlight on the family empire led by its 27-year-old president, Donald Trump, and his father, Fred Trump, the chairman
This from the man who loves to brag that he has a 'great relationship the blacks'
He just didn't want to have to rent his property to them.
