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Donald Trump’s Bizarre Oscars Smear Campaign Against ‘Django Unchained’

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During the 2013 Academy Awards season, the then-reality TV host waged a one-man war against Quentin Tarantino’s revenge-Western, which he branded ‘very racist.’

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