Trump Biographer Interviewed on CNN

Today, Michael D'Antonio, a biographer, was interviewed on CNN by anchor Ana Cabrera. D'Antiono has just published a biography of Trump entitled, "The Truth About Trump". It clearly is not a complimentary biography. The interview was another hit job on the President. Here is why.

Cabrera framed the interview at the outset by asking the question, "Is Trump a racist?" D'Antonio responded that Trump had a long history of statements going back to when he got his business start from his father.

For example?

D'Antonio continued that the Trump family considers itself to be an elite breed. Donald Trump Jr. allegedly told him (D'Antonio) once that if you combine two exceptional people, they will produce exceptional off-spring using the race horse as an example. D'Antonio stated that this is racist nonsense that has been discredited a long time ago.

Racist?

Let me make my point here. If I believe D'Antonio's story about the Trumps' belief in the race horse theory of successful breeding, then I would say that it is valid if you are talking about a man and a woman both having a high IQ producing a child with a high IQ or a couple who are both good athletes producing a child who is a good athlete. That could also apply to a couple who both have good business sense producing a similar child.

But we are not talking about racial eugenics here. D'Antonio produced no quote from President Trump espousing a racial theory of breeding-for example the Nazi belief in Aryan supremacy.

Not one quote, but D'Antonio skillfully left the listener to infer that Donald Trump and his whole family believe in racial superiority when no such statement was produced. (I might add here that Trump has married two Slavic women during his life, which would have infuriated Adolf Hitler.)

It is also troubling that Ms Cabrera did not catch what D'Antonio was implying and ask him if he was aware of any specific racial statements by President Trump in that vein. What D'Antonio did was transition into a discussion about how Trump lives in a  protective bubble surrounded by family and confidantes, thus he is isolated and has no idea how common people think.

I am paraphrasing all this, of course. I am attempting to download the actual video. Here is what D'Antonio wrote about the race horse stuff in the LA Times.


"Trump has handed down his sense of entitlement to the next generation. His son Donald Jr. told me: “Like him, I'm a big believer in race-horse theory. He's an incredibly accomplished guy, my mother's incredibly accomplished, she's an Olympian, so I'd like to believe genetically I'm predisposed to [be] better than average.”

Elitist? Arrogant? Call it what you want from Trump Jr. There is no mention of race in there (apart from the race horse naturally.) I call it fake news.