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highplainsdem

(48,966 posts)
Wed Oct 26, 2016, 08:05 AM Oct 2016

‘Blacks For Trump’ Supporter A Former Member Of Charismatic Cult

Source: TPM

The man who has appeared behind Donald Trump at numerous south Florida rallies bearing a “Blacks for Trump” sign is a former member of the murderous Yahweh ben Yahweh cult and a fixture at Republican campaign events.

At Tuesday’s Trump event in Sanford, the Republican nominee praised the “great” “Blacks for Trump” signs behind him, one of which was held by a white woman and another by a man who goes by the name “Michael the Black Man.”

According to the Miami New Times, the man, who also goes by the names Maurice Woodside and Michael Symonette, was a former member of the Yahweh ben Yahweh cult. In 1990, the group’s charismatic leader, Hulon Mitchell Jr., was charged for conspiracy to murder. He required inductees to kill people to gain entry to the cult.

Though “Michael” was charged for allegedly conspiring in two murders and his brother testified that he stuck a sharpened stick into one man’s eyeball, he was not convicted. In the following years, according to the New Times, he was charged with other crimes including grand theft auto, carrying a weapon onto a plane, and threatening a law enforcement officer. He was never convicted.

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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/blacks-for-trump-michael-black-man-yahweh-ben-yahweh-cult



More from the Miami New Tmes article mentioned in this TPM piece:

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/the-blacks-for-trump-guy-at-florida-rally-is-former-yahweh-ben-yahweh-cult-member-8843111

In the years that followed, he changed his last name to Symonette, made a career as a musician, started a radio station in Miami and then re-invented himself as Michael the Black Man, an anti-gay, anti-liberal preacher with a golden instinct for getting on TV at GOP events. He's planned events with Rick Santorum and gotten cable news play for bashing Obama.

Since 1997, he's been charged with grand theft auto, carrying a weapon onto an airplane and threatening a police officer, but never convicted in any of those cases.

So why is he supporting Trump? Reached on his cell phone in Lakeland, he said he likes Trump's plan to lower taxes, but also offered a complicated answer tying Hillary Clinton to a range of racist activities.

"One reason is because Hillary's last name is Rodham, and their family members are Rothchilds, who enslaved 13,000 slaves as collateral," he says. "She's also on camera kissing the head of the Ku Klux Klan and saying, 'That's my mentor.' That's all on my website."
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Mc Mike

(9,114 posts)
2. dRumpf seems to attract a certain type of supporter.
Wed Oct 26, 2016, 08:12 AM
Oct 2016

No matter what the supporters' race, religion, gender, sexual orientation happens to be. Somehow they always wind up being completely looney tune crazy, and squalidly criminal, and violent, when you look below the surface.

Mc Mike

(9,114 posts)
9. Strangest collection of misfits, squalid criminals, and looney tunes
Wed Oct 26, 2016, 09:07 AM
Oct 2016

since the 3rd Reich. I think dRumpf even has some pirates in his campaign, Long John Silver style ones.

Trying to stab someone's eye with a sharpened stick is more sadist than masochist.

forest444

(5,902 posts)
4. What is it with Repukes and cults.
Wed Oct 26, 2016, 08:19 AM
Oct 2016

When it's not this it's the Moonies, Opus Dei, some pedophile ring in Omaha, or God only knows what else..

Mc Mike

(9,114 posts)
10. When this kook kriminal drumpf supporter was backing Santorum,
Wed Oct 26, 2016, 09:10 AM
Oct 2016

he was backing an Opus Dei politician, too.

michiganman1019

(45 posts)
5. So few
Wed Oct 26, 2016, 08:29 AM
Oct 2016

Amazing that there are so few that you can actually single out the name and occupation of black trump rally attendees.

There are more on twitter however, even ones that don't mask their names nor identities. Most on twitter are more anti-hillary versus pro- trump.

Democat

(11,617 posts)
8. Why does the headline say "charismatic" instead of "murderous"?
Wed Oct 26, 2016, 08:59 AM
Oct 2016

Because the media doesn't want to offend Trump?

Eugene

(61,871 posts)
14. Rothschild. We're finally going there.
Wed Oct 26, 2016, 10:05 AM
Oct 2016

3 million+ African Americans in Florida and the Trumpians
find one even more toxic than the Donald to stand
behind him.

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