Trump Adviser Fired Following Discovery of Racist Facebook Posts

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has been consistently linked to racially-charged comments from Trump himself and those closest to him. Now, this past weekend, Sam Nunberg, a former communications adviser to the Trump campaign, was fired after a string of racist Facebook posts were found on his profile.


Campaign manager Corey Lewandowski announced in a statement, “Effective immediately, low level part-time consultant, Sam Nunberg is no longer associated with the Donald J. Trump for President campaign.”

The posts in question, many of which contained grammatical errors and misspellings, targeted President Obama as well as Rev. Al Sharpton’s daughter. In January of 2009, just days before President Obama’s inauguration, Nunberg wrote, “[Sam Nunberg] wants everyone to know that there are still tickets available for the Hip Hop Inaugral Ball G-D help us!” The following month, he called the president a “Socialist Marxist Islamo Fascist Nazi Appeaser.”

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