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Title: Reporter Gets Unexpected Note From Trump, Furious Trump Turned the Tables on Him
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URL Source: https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/r ... pm&utm_content=western-journal
Published: Aug 14, 2018
Author: Cillian Zeal
Post Date: 2018-08-15 07:04:20 by BTP Holdings
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Reporter Gets Unexpected Note From Trump, Furious Trump Turned the Tables on Him

By Cillian Zeal

August 14, 2018 at 11:46am

An African-American columnist from The Washington Post says that President Trump called him a racist in a letter in response to a piece critical of the president.

Post columnist Jonathan Capehart posted a PDF last week of the unexpected note he received from Trump after a July 6, 2015, op-ed in which he he tried to squeeze in accusations of racism, conspiracy theory-mongering and xenophobia, all with the trademark photo of Trump biting his lip in anger as he points his finger.

The piece was called “No one ‘has to like’ Donald Trump,” which certainly shouldn’t have been any sort of revelation in the offices of the WaPo.

“It is only a ray of hope that much of the GOP field has condemned Trump for braying about Mexican rapists during his presidential announcement ramble,” Capehart wrote.

“Also of comfort are Trump’s business partners who kicked him to the curb rather than be associated with his rank remarks. What’s sad is that despite such overt racism and intemperate remarks, Trump is polling well among Republican Party primary voters.”

Well, at least one part of those paragraphs aged well, and it didn’t have anything to do with racism: Trump does poll well. The rest of it is the usual nonsense — which had become cliche even at that point, only a month into the Trump candidacy.

Instead of ignoring it, however, Trump decided to turn the tables — and Capehart is obviously still furious about it:

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