BuzzFeed Editor-In-Chief to staff: You're allowed to call Trump a 'mendacious racist'

December 10, 2015 01:21

BuzzFeed Editor-In-Chief Ben Smith told employees on Tuesday that they are permitted to call Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump a racist.

"It is ... entirely fair to call him a mendacious racist, as the politics team and others here have reported clearly and aggressively: Hes out there saying things that are false, and running an overtly anti-Muslim campaign, Smith said in a staff memo, which he posted on Twitter after it was published on TheBlaze, a conservative news site.

Smith's memo follows Trump's recent call for a "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States" -- a suggestion that has been criticized by fellow Republican candidates like Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio, who called the proposal, respectively, "unhinged" and "outlandish."

Smith said in the memo that calling Trump a racist does not go against BuzzFeed's policy forbidding employees from expressing partisan views on social media.

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