Trump fires Jewish aide after racially charged Facebook posts
Sam Nunberg fired for penning racist slur, describing US President Obama as 'Islamo Fascist Nazi Appeaser'
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has fired a campaign aide after racially charged Facebook posts surfaced on the aide’s account.
The Trump campaign says longtime aide Sam Nunberg was fired.
The website Business Insider reported the posts Friday. They included a racist slur to describe the Rev. Al Sharpton’s daughter and references to President Barack Obama as a “Socialist Marxist Islamo Fascist Nazi Appeaser” and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as “Huckahick.”
Nunberg, a graduate of Touro College, told the website he was shocked and didn’t recall writing the messages.
Nunberg has spent years working for Trump’s organization and has been fired before, in 2014 when Buzzfeed published an unflattering profile of Trump.
At the time, Politico reported that Nunberg had initially been pleased with the article and had even suggested its author, McKay Coppins, join him for a traditional Shabbos meal.
“I think this is fantastic,” Nunberg wrote to Coppins and added “My mom really likes you. She wants to invite you and your wife over for Shabbos dinner. No joke.”
However, after he was terminated by Trump the first time, Nunberg turned on Coppins and withdrew the invitation.
“Forget the fact that McKay Coppins is no longer invited to my mother’s Shabbos dinner, he is completely cut off from the rest of the political community as the result of his hatchet job,” Nunberg told The Daily Caller.
Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen apologized recently for making what he called an “inarticulate” comment about spousal rape to the Daily Beast.