TRUMP RECEIVES EDORSEMENT FROM KU KLUX KLAN NEWPAPER

Hillary has the support of 415 newspapers, Donald has 9

 

As you may, or may not be aware, there is now a 9^th newspaper that has endorsed Donald Trump.   Hillary Clinton has a total of 415 newspaper endorsement including some international papers, and 225 of them are daily papers with a circulation of over 10,000.  Donald Trump now has 9 newspapers.

 

But this 9^th paper is very special and highly interesting.  It is called the Crusader, and it is the most prominent newspaper of the Ku Klux Klan.

 

Here is a picture of the front page endorsing Donald Trump:

The KKK’s Quarterly paper seriously supports Donald J. Trump

 

Yessiree, there is the picture of “The Donald” right under his "Make America Great Again" banner, and the entire front page of this issue is devoted to a lengthy defense of Trump’s message.  

 

"'Make America Great Again!’ is the slogan that started Donald Trump’s presidential campaign for the presidency."   This was what the pastor, Thomas Robb wrote in the Crusader. "You can see it on the shirts, buttons, posters and ball caps such as the one being worn here by Trump speaking at a recent rally. … But can it happen? Can America really be great again? This is what we will soon find out!"

While Trump wants to make America great again, we have to ask ourselves, 'What made America great in the first place?'" the article continues.

 

According to the Crusader, the short answer to that is simple. “America was great not because of what our forefathers did — but because of who our forefathers were.  America was founded as a White Christian Republic. And as a White Christian Republic it became great."

 

The Trump campaign obviously criticized the article. "Mr. Trump and the campaign denounces hate in any form," the campaign said in a statement. "This publication is repulsive and their views do not represent the tens of millions of Americans who are uniting behind our campaign."

 

This was predictable, but it must be noted that early on it took Donald Trump some time to denounce the KKK and all the other white supremacist groups.  In addition, for all the hate that is offered by the disgusting anti-Hillary Tee shirts that are so prevalent at all of the Trump rallies, I find it hard to believe that the Trump campaign really, “denounces hate in any form”.

 

The Washington Post contacted the Pastor Robb and he noted that the publication was highly enthusiastic in its support of the Republican billionaire's candidacy.

 

"Overall, we do like his nationalist views and his words about shutting down the border to illegal aliens," Robb said. "It’s not a full endorsement because, like anybody, there's things you disagree with. But he kind of reflects what’s happening throughout the world. There seems to be a surge of nationalism worldwide as nationals reclaim their borders."

 

Please note, this is not a daily newspaper or even a weekly.  Their regular 12 pages are published and distributed quarterly and the paper calls itself, "The Political Voice of White Christian America!" and has the well-known white supremacist symbol on its front page.

 

This latest edition includes articles about how the Jews are linked to today’s terrorism, it refers to black-on-white crime and it even has a man who claims to be Bill Clinton’s illegitimate child. 

 

An article near the end of the paper says that Trump’s candidacy is "moving the dialogue forward."  The publication's website says that its "number one goal" is to "stop white genocide."

 

Starting on day one of Trump’s candidacy, Trump has attracted the support of prominent white nationalists across the country.  This has set off fears that the dormant fringe faction of the GOP base, you know, the one steeped in xenophobic and white supremacist rhetoric, this support from the KKK would end up being folded back into the Republican’s mainstream politics.

 

As it turns out, Trump was so ignorant of the nation’s white supremacist groups that early on he had actually re-Tweeted some of the white supremacist’s Tweets during the GOP primary campaigns.

 

At first, white nationalists said they were reluctant to publicly throw their support behind the controversial billionaire.  But these same white nationalists have said, that as Trump became more emboldened, they did as well.

 

It all started way back in January, as a Mr. Jared Taylor, the editor of the white nationalist magazine American Renaissance, lent his voice to a robo-recording that urged registered voters in Iowa to back Donald Trump. Those potential voters, Taylor told The Post, “are part of a silent majority who are tired of being asked to celebrate diversity but are afraid of being labeled bigots”.

 

Some time later, Trump was endorsed by former KKK grand wizard David Duke.  This led to an exchange between CNN’s Jake Tapper and the Republican candidate.  Tapper asked Trump to "unequivocally condemn David Duke”, but Trump would only plead ignorance.  "Just so you understand, I don’t know anything about David Duke, okay?" Trump said.  Tapper then pressed Trump several more times to disavow Duke and the KKK, but Trump continued to decline to denounce David Duke or the KKK.

 

"I don’t know anything about what you’re even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists," Trump said. "So I don't know. I don't know — did he endorse me, or what’s going on? Because I know nothing about David Duke; I know nothing about white supremacists."

 

However, that’s not exactly true.  Older video has shown Trump referring to David Duke and his position on the KKK.

 

But that same month, the national organizer for the KKK’s Knights Party, Rachel Pendergraft,  she told The Post that Trump's campaign had offered the organization a new outreach tool for recruiting new members and expanding their formerly dwindling ranks.  The Republican presidential candidate, Pendergraft said, had provided separatists with an easy way to start a conversation about issues that are important to the dying white supremacist movement.  "One of the things that our organization really stresses with our membership is we want them to educate themselves on issues, but we also want them to be able to learn how to open up a conversation with other people," Pendergraft said.  Using Trump as a conversation piece is now being discussed on a private, members-only website and in “the e-news, stuff that goes out to Knight’s Party members.”  In addition to opening “a door to conversation,” she said, Trump’s surging candidacy has electrified some members of the movement.  "They like the overall momentum of his rallies and his campaign," Pendergraft said. "They like that he's not willing to back down. He says what he believes and he stands on that."

 

These people now almost worship whatever Trump says.

 

Just this last August, the American Nazi Party chairman, Rocky Suhayda, also signed on and he agreed with declaring on his radio show that Trump offers a "real opportunity to build the white nationalist movement”.

 

This type of support for Trump has been showing up and marring a series of Trump’s racially charged rallies.  In fact, a black man was booted from Trump’s North Carolina rally after he was taken for being a protester. Trump’s security detail escorted the man out of the rally as the audience had cheered. 

 

 

“You can get him out,” Trump had said, making a sideways motion with his thumb. “Get him out of here!.”

 

However, the person in question turned out to be a Mr. C.J. Cary, a North Carolina resident, who it turns out is a longtime Trump supporter.

 

The Post later had a phone interview with Mr. Cary.

 

In the phone interview, Cary said he had gone to the rally because he wanted to hand-deliver a note to the Republican presidential nominee. He had made his way to about 20 to 30 feet from the stage and shouted “Donald!” while he waved his note around to try to catch his attention.  “Everyone else was waving Trump signs and I’m waving this white letter,” Cary, 63, said. He said that the fact that he was wearing sunglasses during the evening rally to deal with his sensitivity to light, that may have been what set people off.  Cary said that a security official said that he seemed to be a supporter but he should not have disrupted the rally.

 

“The security officers asked me, ‘What happened? You have on a GOP badge,’ " Cary said. “I said, ‘I’m yelling at and for Donald, and he thinks I’m a protester.’ ”

 

But this was just the beginning of this kind of support.

 

Days later, Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, loudly disavowed a supporter as “deplorable” for chanting “Jew-S-A!” at a weekend rally.  This was just the latest incident of anti-Semitic rhetoric used by some of the GOP nominee’s backers.  “The man’s conduct was completely unacceptable and does not reflect our campaign or our candidate...Wow,” Conway said during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “That man’s conduct was deplorable. And had I been there, I would have asked security to remove him immediately.”

 

That Saturday afternoon incident in Phoenix was captured on video that showed a man confronting reporters at the rallies with a three-fingered hand gesture that is a nationalist hate symbol.  “You’re going down! You’re the enemy!” the man yelled as the rest of the crowd broke into a chant of “USA! USA!.”   However, this man kept chanting, “Jew-S-A! Jew-S-A!”

 

Anti-Semitic slogans and language have become common among members of the "Alt-Right movement," which is an anti-establishment alternative to the mainstream Republicans.  Many within the Alt-Right movement have enthusiastically embraced Trump’s campaign including his calls for mass deportations of undocumented immigrants.  Also for barring foreign Muslims from entering the United States.

 

Many of Trump's critics have accused Trump of stoking racial issues as a political tool. Those accusations have increased since Stephen K. Bannon became the Trump campaign’s chief executive.  Plus the fact that Bannon had previously used his Breitbart operation to offer a "platform for promoting the Alt-Right".

 

“The case is that the Trump campaign has been embraced by the radical right in an unprecedented way this season," said Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

 

Trump also came under fire for re-tweeting an image of rival Hillary Clinton alongside $100 bills and a Jewish Star of David copied from a former anti-sematic ad.  The ad had Trump’s words of the: “most corrupt candidate ever!”  Trump later had claimed that the “star” was a sheriff’s star.  Sorry Donald, sheriff’s stars are not the same as the six-pointed Star of David.

 

But to cap it all off, Trump’s son, Donald Jr., also drew attention for doing an interview with a white-nationalist radio host earlier this year.  Donald Jr. was criticized for posting an image on social media that included Pepe the Frog, that is a figure that has been appropriated by most white supremacists groups. The Junior Trump told ABC News that he did not know about the association of "Pepe" and white supremacists groups.

 

RRRRRight!

 

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