Donald Trump loves feuding with the press, and has made attacking the media a centerpiece of his campaign. There's one outlet, however, that seems to have no trouble with the candidate, receiving VIP treatment and exclusive, long interviews with family as well as great access at his rallies. The favored outlet? A white supremacist radio show.
James Edwards, a notorious white supremacist and radio talk show host, is promoting a recent interview with the son of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump that'll air on Saturday.
Edwards talked to the real estate mogul's eldest son and campaign surrogate, Donald Trump, Jr., for his "pro-white" radio show, "The Political Cesspool." Previous guests on the show have included Neo-Nazis, Holocaust deniers, and Ku Klux Klan leaders.
He heralded the 20-minute interview in a blog post that boasted about his access inside a Trump rally in Memphis, Tennessee, last Saturday, where Edwards was broadcasting his show live. He said Trump's campaign gave Edwards and his co-hosts full press credentials and "VIP" parking near the event.
Trump rallies are now apparently a key feature for Edwards' program—he and his colleagues have been to three rallies where they are fully credentialed and say they are treated as "every bit as legit" as the traditional media. They are more legit, apparently, in the Trump campaign's eyes than the Huffington Post, the Des Moines Register, and Fusion which have all previously been denied credentials to Trump rallies.
And yes, Edwards is really a white supremacist and his show is most definitely about white supremacy. The Anti-Defamation League has written about Edwards and his radio show, and highlight the radio show's "Mission Statement" to "represent a philosophy that is pro-White … [and seeks] to grow the percentage of Whites in the world relative to other races." They go on to say that Edwards has used the platform to interview " a variety of anti-Semites, white supremacists, Holocaust deniers, conspiracy theorists and anti-immigrant leaders." The Southern Poverty Law Center adds "James Edwards has probably done more than any of his contemporaries on the American radical right to publicly promote neo-Nazis, Holocaust deniers, raging anti-Semites and other extremists."
And he's a VIP in Trumpland.