Trump property doorman says he was ordered to discriminate against blacks

Feb 22, 2017

Recently, the FBI’s FOIA website published over 400 pages relating to the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division’s lawsuit against Trump Management Company in 1973 alleging racial discrimination in housing.

While Trump settled the lawsuit and did not have to admit to any wrongdoing, the records from the investigation show that it isn’t hard to see the blatant discrimination and racism taking place there.

For example, one doorman was specifically ordered to lie to black people in order to prevent renting.

Here’s the former doorman of a Trump property, describing what he was told to tell black people, in newly released FBI files. pic.twitter.com/rlpI2NLRsN

— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) February 16, 2017

“While employed in this capacity I was supervised by an individual known to me as [redacted] who was employed by Trump Management Corporation as superintendent at 265037 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, New York,” the doorman said. “[Redacted] told me that if a black person came to 265037 Ocean Parkway and inquired about an apartment for rent, and he, that is, [redacted] was not there at the time, that I should tell him that the rent was twice as much as it really was, in order that he could not afford the apartment.”

For more information about this, you can read the Washington Post’s in-depth investigative piece concerning the discrimination case against the Trumps, “Inside the government’s racial bias case against Donald Trump’s company, and how he fought it,” here.