Wow. Trump privately rationalized why someone would be a member of the K.K.K.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

There are lots of arresting details in the book. We learn that the administration holds special animus for what it calls “D.O.J. women,” or women who work in the Justice Department. Wolff writes that after the white supremacist mayhem in Charlottesville, Va., Trump privately rationalized “why someone would be a member of the K.K.K.” The book recounts that after the political purge in Saudi Arabia, Trump boasted that he and Kushner engineered a coup: “We’ve put our man on top!”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/04/opinion/fire-fury-wolff-trump-book.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

Like father, like son:

On Memorial Day 1927, brawls erupted in New York led by sympathizers of the Italian fascist movement and the Ku Klux Klan. In the fascist brawl, which took place in the Bronx, two Italian men were killed by anti-fascists. In Queens, 1,000 white-robed Klansmen marched through the Jamaica neighborhood, eventually spurring an all-out brawl in which seven men were arrested.

One of those arrested was Fred Trump of 175-24 Devonshire Rd. in Jamaica.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/28/in-1927-donald-trumps-father-was-arrested-after-a-klan-riot-in-queens/?utm_term=.5986a4316d08

[dalton99a]

1. "Why, my father was a great Klansman"

[peggysue2]

2. Guess he understands it because . . .

his own father was willing to march with the Klan, taught him the finer points of White Nationalism when he was a wee child. The Trumpester, as a man, wears his ignorance and lack of curiosity as a badge of honor.

You know it's bad when GW is being reshaped as an 'intellectual.' LOL

The madness never ends.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. So true,

love the GW reference. Cleaning up the Image of the Bush Crime Family,who would have thought.

[Anon-C]

4. I cant believe this isnt a bigger deal!

"Then they came for me..."

[GusBob]

5. begs an explanation not provided here

what was his rationalization for one joining the KKK?

and further what does "privately rationalized" mean? he read his mind?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. I assume "privately rationalized" to mean he shared his thoughts with intimates.

Even someone as crazy as him isn't going to hug a Klansman in public.

[emulatorloo]

7. Privately Rationalized talked privately w people. Didnt make a speech. Didnt tweet. Didnt

Tell it to the NYT etc. Said it in private conversation.

[GusBob]

9. Ya so, to whom?

I am starting to have misgivings about this guy Wolff after I read he claimed in an interveiw he knew people were lying to him for this book and he claimed some of his sources contradicted each other yet he ran with the information

I have the hardcover on order, I hope he explains things better. Like the lies were to cover up for Trump.

For the purposes of this post I am extremely interested on the rationalizations Trump came up with, I hope that is in the book as well

[hvn_nbr_2]

8. The Klan apple doesn't fall far from the Klan tree. nt