During his campaign for president, Donald Trump has shown himself to be a racist

"This could very well be a ploy for attention in an attempt to attract attention, a calculated move." A. Obviously, if you are trying to prove a quality of some one, the only way to prove it without inference is a direct confession of that. B. Trump, throughout his campaign, has shown himself to be good at one thing, saying what the republican base audience really wants to hear. Examples of this are that he says he will not cut social security, is against free trade, and wants to reform the tax code. So, what kind of publicity did Trump receive from this, really, he did get people to start re-tweeting this. However overall, this gave media a justified reason to call him out on racism, this did not get him positive publicity overall. There was no advantage to him doing this. When Trump does things considered politically incorrect, he gets the media to attack him on something that isn't substantive, this is what gets him positive publicity, not something substantive. You have to make assumptions about Trump's motives, or else it would be impossible to debate this evenly without a concession. "I didn't tweet, I re tweeted somebody that was supposedly an expert." A. He was not supposedly an expert, he is openly a neo Nazi. http://littlegreenfootballs.com... B.In his twitter bio, he says "...we should have listened to the Austrian chap with the little mustache." This is a clear reference to Adolf Hitler, and his admiration for him. C.He also references a website, stickyourdiversityupyourarse.com, this is pretty clearly racist. "Am I going to check every statistic? I get millions and millions of people @realdonaldtrump." A. Assuming he did gets millions of tweets, that means that he, out of those, chose the one with an obviously racist slant. Do to the image on the tweet, it was clearly racist. B. The idea that Donald Trump thought this was true, does show him to be a racist, particularly due to the fact this came from a white nationalist. However, combined with the fact that this guy was openly a white supremacist and neo Nazi, as well as the obviously racist image and the fact that trump handpicked this obviously racist tweet out of millions and millions of statistical ones he supposedly receive, (it is only rational to assume some of those are from obviously credible sources) this is Donald Trump showing himself to be a racist. "It could be to show the evident problems in the African American community, showing that it needs to be addressed." A.If Trump assumed it was legitimate, then he would believe this is a serious problem, but based on the racist slant of the tweet, and that he chose this dubious one out of probably tens of millions (some of which have to be from obviously credible sources like the FBI) Trump either way tweeted this with racist intent. Also, even if Trump did not read his account at all, then it would still be apparent that he was a neo Nazi, as his account avatar is a modified swastika. B. Trump is very vocal in his tweets, however, he provided no context to this tweet, he only re tweeted the image, it seems only rational that Trump would at least include a single sentence about him trying to spread awareness or signify a problem in the African American community if that was his actual intent. C. Again, Trump claims to have gotten this from the twitter account SexyPatriots, however, that twitter account he claims to have gotten it from, does not exist. http://fusion.net... "For one, Trump re tweeting the photo could have simply been to show the statistic, the graphic did not even cross his mind." A.The graphic clearly shows a racist slant in the tweet. B. The image takes up about half of the picture, it doesn't seem to make sense that Trump did not notice the graphic. C. Let's say he noticed but did not care about it. In this case, Trump would have known noticed the racism within the picture. Yet he would have picked it out of tens of millions of options, understanding there is a racist slant. I don't see Trump understanding the racist slant yet believing it to be credible and then picking it out with millions of options to be logical. "It does absolutely nothing to discredit the black population as a whole, only the ones part of the subculture who commits crime." A. Considering it came from a neo Nazi, yes, it does discredit the black population as a whole. B. The implication is that it is blacks who are committing murder, not whites, which does have a racist slant. However, there is a reason that I do believe that Trump did know the statistics were false. The graph claims the stats were from 2015, however, 2015 was not over yet. This means the graph was obviously false. If Trump assumed the stats were for 2015 so far, then that does not really make sense. As then, almost anyone would have concluded the graph would say stats for 2015 so far, but it did not. If Trump knew the statistics were false, then he definitely understood the racist slant, which would obviously harness little to no positive publicity. Okay, but if this was the only time Donald Trump has re tweeted open white supremacists, or people who align to a certain extant with white supremacists, then it could be looked over, however Donald Trump has often re tweeted white supremacists. In the week of January 22nd, Donald Trump re tweeted 21 different accounts. Of these, 13 out of them follow more than one account that uses the #white genocide hashtag. White genocide is essentially a claim that in the west, there will be a genocide of whites to make them a minority. This hashtag is often used on twitter in order to justify racist claims against minorities. Even more so, Trump, in that week, re tweeted 6 accounts who follow multiple of the top 50 white supremacists on twitter, which is a much more clear white supremacist connection. So, Trump is consistently choosing to amplify the words of white supremacists and their accounts. http://nymag.com... More specifically, at one point, he re tweeted @WhiteGenocideTM, who consistently gives out racial slurs on his account and claims Adolf Hitler is the savior of humanity, WhiteGenocideTM He is an outright neo Nazi. Donald Trump consistently re tweets white supremacists and neo Nazis. At a Trump rally in Memphis, Donald Trump gave press credentials to a White Supremacist radio show. This radio show has a long history of making racist comments including saying interracial marriage is nothing but white genocide, and even claims to be completely pro white. While Trump giving white supremacists press credentials and letting them get interviews is odd in itself, it is even more odd that Trump often denies many credible sources press credentials. http://www.mediaite.com... However, this could be seen as Trump not wanting to have to deal with anyone who may be against him at his rallies, however he did not just give press credentials to the white supremacist show, he gave them an interview. Although to a certain extant this is up to interpretation, it does show Trump has a certain level or respect and acceptance for white supremacists at the least. Overall, through Trump's consistent amplification and sometimes mostly support of white supremacist on social media, and the actions at his rallies including violence against many black protesters and giving press credentials to white supremacists but denying them to many others, he has shown himself to be a racist. Not that he is a racist person, but this almost definitely shows that Donald Trump has shown himself to be a racist in his presidential campaign.