| 1 | Donald Trump's presidential campaign has fired a staffer after racially charged and insulting Facebook posts under his name came to light, a person close to the campaign said on Sunday. |
| 2 | The posts, which date back to 2007, included an apparent racial slur targeting civil rights leader Reverend Al Sharpton's daughter. |
| 3 | Other posts called President Barack Obama "a Socialist Marxist Islamo Fascist Nazi Appeaser," and "Kenyan" and "Muslim," according to Business Insider, which first reported the posts on Friday. |
| 4 | The staffer, Sam Nunberg, has denied writing the posts, according to CNN. |
| 5 | Nunberg previously worked for the 2008 presidential campaign of Mitt Romney as chair of a New York City students' organization, according to a LinkedIn profile under his name. |
| 6 | Nunberg was a "low-level" staffer for the Trump campaign, the campaign told Business Insider. |
| 7 | The source, who asked not to be named, declined to give further details, other than to say Nunberg was no longer working for the campaign. |
| 8 | Trump is leading most major polls ahead of the first Republican debate on Thursday. |
| 9 | Earlier this week, Trump's special counsel Michael Cohen publicly apologized for comments he made on the subject of marital rape. |