Because it was over a period of TIME. Like it has been happening for YEARS. YOU do know that in 1973 Trump Countersued the US Government over these allegations that his father and company got in trouble for in 1978.
You know that Trump didn't start working for his Father until 1968 and it was doing repairs and collecting rents. 1971 Trump wanted to expand to Manhattan but his dad didn't want too. He dad want to stay in the "low income" outer boroughs. This is when Trump started up in Manhattan. In 1972 people filed the complaints.....So yeah.... FACTS MATTER. Timelines matter.... etc.
Not a partisan HACK.... but know how things work and history.
But yep.... facts matter.
From Fred Trumps Wiki page:
Minority applicants turned away from renting apartments complained to the New York City Commission on Human Rights and the Urban League, leading these groups to send test applicants to Trump-owned complexes in July 1972. They found that white people were offered apartments, while black people were generally turned away (by being told there were no vacancies);[m] according to the superintendent of Beach Haven Apartments, this was at the direction of his boss.[115] Both of the aforementioned advocacy organizations then raised the issue with the Justice Department.[98] In October 1973, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) filed a civil rights lawsuit against the Trump Organization (Fred Trump, chair, and Donald Trump, president) for infringing the Fair Housing Act of 1968.[98] In response, Trump attorney Roy Cohn countersued for $100 million in damages, accusing the DoJ of false accusations.[98][116]
The FBI interviewed about three dozen former Trump employees.[116] Some testified that they had no knowledge of any racial profiling practices and that a small percentage of their apartments were rented to blacks or Puerto Ricans.[n] A former doorman testified that his supervisor had instructed him to tell prospective black tenants that the rent was double its actual amount.[117] Four landlords or rental agents confirmed that applications sent to the Trump organization's head office for approval were coded by the race of the applicant.[118] One former employee testified that a code – which he believed was used throughout the Brooklyn branch of the company – referred to "low lifes" such as "blacks, Puerto Ricans, apparent drug users, or any other type of undesirable applicant", and nine times out of ten it meant the applicant was black; blacks were also falsely told there were no vacancies.[116] A rental agent who had worked with the company for two weeks said that when he asked Fred Trump if he should rent to blacks, he was told that it was "absolutely against the law to discriminate",[119] but after asking again, he was instructed "not to rent to blacks", and was further advised to:[120]
get rid of the blacks that were in the building by telling them cheap housing was available for them at only $500 down payment, which Trump would offer to pay himself. Trump didn't tell me where this housing was located. He advised me not to rent to persons on welfare.
Meanwhile, Trump acquired up to 20% of Brooklyn's Starrett City, a large, federally subsidized housing complex which opened in 1974 with the stated desegregation goal of renting 70% of its units to white people and the rest to minorities.[121][122]
A consent decree between the DoJ and the Trump Organization was signed on June 10, 1975, with both sides claiming victory – the Trump Organization because the settlement did not require them "to accept persons on welfare as tenants", and the head of DoJ's housing division for the decree being "one of the most far-reaching ever negotiated".[98][118] It personally and corporately prohibited the Trumps from "discriminating against any person in the ... sale or rental of a dwelling", and "required Trump to advertise vacancies in minority papers [for two years], promote minorities to professional jobs, and list vacancies on a preferential basis".[118] Finally, it ordered the Trumps to "thoroughly acquaint themselves personally on a detailed basis with ... the Fair Housing Act of 1968".[98][123]