Donald Trump on…
Black and Jewish people
"I have a great relationship with the blacks," Trump told CNN in 2011. Two decades before that, one of his former colleagues accused him of saying: "Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are little short guys that wear yarmulkes every day." Responding to the allegations, the businessman said they were "probably true", Rolling Stone reports.
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