Salon: The Donald - "I've always had a great relationship with the blacks"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Thursday, Apr 14, 2011 12:28 ET
War Room
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Donald Trump may have just committed the first major gaffe of his latest fake presidential campaign. (Well, unless you count his birther crusade as one giant, weeks-long gaffe, which it probably isn't, since it's helped vault him to the top of some early Republican presidential polls.)

Appearing on a radio show hosted by the New York Post's Fred Dicker this morning, Trump took on the "frightening" level of support that President Obama enjoys from black voters, bragged that "I've always had a great relationship with the blacks," and saluted Hillary Clinton -- whose 2008 campaign against Obama was dogged by occasional suggestions that it was catering to racial and cultural resentments -- for all the work she's done for "the black population."

We can argue about whether this might hurt Trump -- both in terms of his fake presidential campaign's prospects and the reputation of the Trump brand. Right now, it's unclear how much -- if any -- pickup it will even receive.

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