The Huffington Post has just published my story exposing the Trump campaign’s link, through Donald Trump, Jr., to yet a second director of the white supremacist (they prefer the term “white nationalist” but promote the supremacy of the so-called “white race”) American Freedom Party, whose super-PAC has run racist pro-Trump robocalls in 6 primary and caucus states.
If you think this story is important, please pass it around. I’ll be covering even more scandalous aspects of the Trump campaign’s ties to white supremacist/nationalists in future stories. Thanks, BruceW
( Below is the first part of my story. It’s slightly different than the Huffpo version — they took so long to publish it that I thought they’d decided not to run it, so I spruced it up a bit and published it talk2action.org )
Trump Campaign Tied To Second Leader of White Nationalist Party
Even as Donald Trump seeks to tack to the center, and leave behind his earlier, wildly controversial statements on Hispanics and Muslims, mounting evidence concerning the Trump campaign's ties to racist white nationalists threatens to undermine Trump's re-branding effort.
Media has recently showcased a Trump campaign link to a director of the American Freedom Party (AFP), William D. Johnson, whom the Trump effort had picked as a delegate in the upcoming California primary. The AFP has run racist pro-Trump robocalls in at least six primary and caucus states.
But the Trump for president effort has more direct, high-level contact with another AFP director, James Edwards - whom the Trump campaign vetted for VIP press credentials in late February.
Edwards then broadcast his Political Cesspool radio show live from a Trump rally in Memphis. On March 1, 2016, Edwards co-hosted a radio show featuring a 20-minute appearance by Donald Trump Jr.
The American Freedom Party promotes Holocaust denial, claims that "diversity equals white genocide", and calls Trump "the great white hope". AFP also denies being a white supremacist organization, billing itself as merely "white nationalist" -- a rebranding tactic that belies AFP support for claims of alleged white genetic superiority.
On May 10, 2016, Mother Jones magazine reported that Donald Trump's presidential campaign had selected William D. Johnson, head of the American Freedom Party (AFP), as a delegate in California.
Along with Johnson, James Edwards is one of 6 co-directors of the AFP. A Southern Poverty Law Center profile on James Edwards states that his Political Cesspool radio show,
"has featured a wide roster of white supremacists, anti-Semites and other extremists, such as the longtime Klan leader David Duke and Holocaust denier Willis Carto. Its mission statement says it 'stands for the Dispossessed Majority' and is 'pro-white.' "
Edwards' movement strongly rejects charges that it is "white supremacist" and prefers other less loaded terms - such as "ethno-nationalist" or "white nationalist".
But during an April 16, 2016 broadcast, one of James Edwards' Political Cesspool show co-hosts proclaimed (at 30:30 in the broadcast),
"All you young people out there who do not know your history - you are the greatest race God ever made. Every race in this here world has benefited from the Anglo-Saxon Caucasian Germanic race. Every one !"
Interjected Edwards, in agreement,
"And the reason I think that is, Eddy, is because we were the ones who spread Christianity. Now I know it started with the Jewish people - there's no doubt about that. But God sent it to the Europeans first."