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(114,904 posts) Mon May 9, 2016, 12:00 PM May 2016

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He comes by it honestly: Trump's father was a crook and a bigot who marched with the kkk (Original Post) cali May 2016 OP

Somehow, "honestly" doesn't seem to fit here. dchill May 2016 #2

It Was A Huge Issue In "House Of Cards"........... ChoppinBroccoli May 2016 #3

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1. Fred Trump was Woody Guthrie's landlord in the 1950's. Woody wrote this lyric about him:

Mon May 9, 2016, 12:05 PM

May 2016

I suppose
Old Man Trump knows
Just how much
Racial Hate
he stirred up
In the bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed
That color line
Here at his
Eighteen hundred family project

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/01/25/woody-guthrie-sang-of-his-contempt-for-his-landlord-donald-trumps-father/

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2. Somehow, "honestly" doesn't seem to fit here.

Mon May 9, 2016, 12:09 PM

May 2016

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3. It Was A Huge Issue In "House Of Cards"...........

Mon May 9, 2016, 02:44 PM

May 2016

...............but unfortunately, it will only make Drumpf's supporters like him more.