That article really bends over backwards to try and make excuses for him. For one thing, it'll dismiss negative things about Trump as hearsay, and then in the same breath endorse hearsay counter-arguments as fact. The reality is most of these are horrible things that add up to a pretty destructive pattern.
That said, I tend to think that Trump is not a racist, because he has equal contempt for anyone that is not himself. (I would have said anyone not himself or his family, but after learning about how he pulled medical benefits for his nephew's sick infant, I've changed my opinion on that.) The only people he does not have contempt for are those who are of immediate benefit to him and his ego. He's got a pattern of absolutely zero empathy for anyone else, and so it's easy to find people of any minority that he has hurt, or said offensive crap about. He'll take whoever is target is, whether they're a minority, or a woman, or a white male, and he'll say the first derogatory thing that comes to mind, and the less like him they are, the broader strokes he'll use in painting them. If insulting another billionaire, he'll find something like physical stature to focus on, if talking about the poor, he'll use sweeping generalizations.
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