As Donald Trump calls for suppression of Black Lives Matter protests against police abuse, new data reveal another form of Trumpian suppression of minorities. His administration is failing to enforce laws against racial discrimination in lending.
Detailed analysis of mortgage loan applications that were approved or denied found pervasive redlining in 61 metro areas.
Yet Trump’s Justice Department is nowhere to be found. It referred only four fair-lending cases in 2018, one of which had nothing to do with race or national origin. Those four cases represent an 84 percent drop from the Obama administration’s annual average of 25.5 cases. Further, government files show that the Trump administration is closing out Obama era cases more than pursuing new ones.
The Trump administration settles financial discrimination cases on cheap abuser-friendly terms.