In the early 1970s, Trump, his father, and their real estate company were sued by the federal government for systematically discriminating against African Americans. Undercover federal agents documented evidence of widespread bias against black prospective tenants and favoritism for whites throughout Trump’s properties. Former employees testified that they’d been instructed to restrict certain rentals to Jewish people and “executives” while they were “discouraged” from renting to African Americans.7 By 1989, Trump was taking out full-page ads in four different New York newspapers publicly
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