Politics
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Trump Claims Baltimore Is Rat Infested. He Should Talk to His Slumlord Son-in-Law, Whose Charm City Properties Are Trash
If President Trump was really concerned about the condition of Baltimore neighborhoods instead of tweeting about it, he could have walked from the Oval Office into his son-in-law’s makeshift suite inside the White House and told him to fix it. That’s because Jared Kushner and Kushner’s family business, the New York-based Kushner Companies, owns thousands…
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Baltimore Church Gives Ben Carson the Boot as He Scrambles to Demonstrate What He’s Done for That City Lately
Maybe Ben Carson reads The Root because just one day after Senior Editor Stephen A. Crockett Jr. noted that Donald Trump’s apologist and only black Cabinet member had “done nothing for Baltimore” since becoming housing secretary, Carson hastily arranged a press conference in Baltimore to show off what he had done. And then he promptly…
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Live Blog: From Detroit, the Democratic Debates, Night 2
DETROIT—Greetings from Flint! The Root is at the Flint Development Center live-blogging the second night of debates, where the organization Black Voters Matter is holding a debate forum with locals watching the debate on the big screen. Everyone will obviously be looking for the showdown between Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and former Vice President Joe…
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Guess Who Donald Trump Thinks Is the Dumbest Man on Television? Hint: He’s Black
President Trump was up past his bedtime watching the debates Tuesday night. Yes, he was wearing pajamas with the feet attached and was snacking on his pre-dinner meal of goat’s blood and baked bat wings smothered in mayonnaise when he took offense to a question asked by CNN’s Don Lemon, one of the moderators of…
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Democratic Debates, Day 1: Elizabeth Warren Came to Detroit and Caught a Body
DETROIT—Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was supposed to come to Detroit and prove to this mostly black city why its residents should trust her with their votes. She was supposed to present a vision of economic hope that would convince black women here, who are often impoverished heads of households and suffer disproportionate infant mortality rates,…
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Trump Retweets Some Bullshit and Twitter Suspends the Conspiracy-Laced Account That Posted It
Donald Trump is the president of the United States but he hasn’t let that job get in the way of his actual work—being a Grade A, self-centered Twitter troll. And as such, he has a tendency to retweet some of the most outlandish bullshit because he’s easily influenced and already compromised. On Tuesday, a most-likely…
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Surprise! Beloved President Ronald Reagan Was a Racist: Unearthed Call to Then-President Nixon Proves It
History has been kind to former President Ronald Reagan. In death, the story of Reagan, the racist actor-turned-racist president has morphed into Reagan, the conservative maverick whose vision for America created the blueprint for “self-reliance.” Even former President Barack Obama spoke highly of Reagan and often quoted the 40th president. Time magazine even wrote a…
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Trump Will Have to Give Up His Tax Returns If He Wants To Be on the Primary Ballot in California Under New Law
If Donald Trump wants a shot at appearing on California’s presidential primary ballot, he’ll have to pony up his tax returns. California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation, effectively immediately, that mandates that presidential candidates can’t appear on California’s primary ballot unless they’ve submitted five years of their tax returns, the Los Angeles Times reports. Candidates…
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Live Blog: From Detroit, the Democratic Debates, Night 1
Greetings from Detroit! The Root is here in the Motor City live-blogging the first night of debates from the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, where the organization Black Voters Matter held a pre-debate forum with residents of Detroit, moderated by CNN commentator Angela Rye. Senior reporter Terrell Jermaine Starr is on location…
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Dems Descend on Detroit for Round 2 of Presidential Debates
DETROIT—Here in the Motor City, locals are looking for Democratic candidates to prove one thing: Can you beat Donald Trump? This is not a question germane to Detroit—indeed, Trump is wildly unpopular with black people nationally—but what makes this city particularly vital is that it is the biggest black city in America that, at one…