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Donald Trump Was Also A Dirtbag To Native Americans... It turns out they got the last laugh.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-was-also-a-dirtbag-to-native-americans_55cb9290e4b0923c12bf0688Julian Brave NoiseCat
Native Issues Fellow, The Huffington Post
Posted: 08/12/2015 06:31 PM EDT
Donald Trump, the real estate tycoon and surprise Republican presidential frontrunner, has been spewing insults (out of his mouth or wherever) for quite some time. In the months since he announced his run for the GOP nomination, Trump has targeted Mexicans, prisoners of war, women and The Huffington Post.
But before he became a TV personality of "The Apprentice" fame, Trump sharpened his teeth with racist attacks against the Mashantucket Pequot Nation, a Native American tribe in Connecticut.
"They don't look like Indians to me," Trump told the House Native American Affairs subcommittee in a 1993 inquiry about organized crime and policing in Indian casinos dug up by the Hartford Courant’s Dan Haar. "They don't look like Indians to Indians."
Trump’s remarks went on for an hour, and included unsubstantiated allegations that the mafia had infiltrated Indian casinos. Many in Congress were shocked by Trump’s irresponsibility.