We're all familiar with neo-fascist racist Donald "Rump" Trump's "Pocahontas" slur against Massachusetts' great Sen. Elizabeth Warren. After she rips the bark off of him, Rump lamely responds by disparaging her Native American heritage. Now it appears it's not the first time Rump has disparaged Native Americans.
When the St. Regis Mohawk tribe announced their plan to open a casino in upstate New York, Rump perceived a threat to his casino in Atlantic City, and launched an "astroturf" ad campaign behind a bogus front organization to smear the tribe. In order to hide his extensive involvement, Rump financed something laughably called "The New York Institute for Law and Society" and brought in world-class ratf*cker Roger Stone to organize the campaign. When it began in 2000, the campaign alleged that some 12,000 "pro-family" donors were supporting it, when in fact Rump provided virtually all of the funding -- some $1 million. Rump also approved each scurrilous ad that ran in area newspapers and on radio, which contained malicious aspersions about the tribe's character. The copy for one ad read:
“If you think this stinks, it’s because casino gambling stinks. It brings increased crime, bankruptcy, broken homes, divorce, and in the case of Indian gambling, violence.” (emphasis added)New York State's lobbying commission saw the front organization and the ads as violating state laws and fined Rump $250,000. He was also forced to make a public apology. In a just world, he'd be forced to make an apology to Sen. Warren, too.
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