Buffalo, NY – The son of President-elect Donald Trump’s New York campaign co-chairman has denounced his father’s comments about President Barack Obama and his wife.
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Carl Paladino said in remarks appearing Thursday in a weekly publication that he hoped Obama would die from mad cow disease. He called Michelle Obama a male who should be “let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe.”
Paladino founded a Buffalo development firm now run by his son, William Paladino.
The Buffalo News reports Sunday (http://bit.ly/2hXqVxb) that the younger Paladino wrote on the company’s Facebook page that the company didn’t condone what his father said. He called the statements “disrespectful and absolutely unnecessary.”
The elder Paladino, a wealthy real estate executive and Buffalo school board member, confirmed to The Associated Press on Friday he made the comments. He said in an emailed statement they had “nothing to do with race.”
He might not be speaking for his son, but he does represent the opinions of slightly less than half of America right now.
I wouldn’t have worded it like that, but I have wondered for a while if Michelle Obama was actually a Michael.
Me thinks it was funny.
If you want to be an ignorant racist then don’t whine about Anti-Semitism.