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By Katie Mettler August 23 at 6:07 AM
At a number of political rallies over the year, a character calling himself Michael the Black Man has appeared in the crowd directly behind Donald Trump, impossible to miss and possibly planted.
He holds signs that scream BLACKS FOR TRUMP and wears a T-shirt proclaiming with equal conviction that TRUMP & Republicans Are Not Racist. Almost always, he plugs his wild website, Gods2.com, across his chest.
And so it was Tuesday night before a crowd of Trump supporters in Phoenix who had come to watch another show. There was the president, whipping up the wildly cheering crowd, and then there was Michael the Black Man, chanting just beyond Trumps right shoulder in that trademark T-shirt.
The presence of Michael variously known as Michael Symonette, Maurice Woodside and Mikael Israel has inspired not only trending Twitter hashtags but a great deal of curiosity and Google searches. Internet sleuths find the mans bizarre URL, an easily accessible gateway to his strange and checkered past.
The radical fringe activist from Miami once belonged to a violent black supremacist religious cult, and he runs a handful of amateur, unintelligible conspiracy websites. He has called Barack Obama The Beast and Hillary Clinton a Ku Klux Klan member. Oprah Winfrey, he says, is the devil.
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Pachamama
(16,887 posts)This guy is beyond cray cray....possibly crazier and more dangerous than some of the Neo-nazi and KKK supporters...
Is the Trump team keeping him on ice till they are ready to unleash the race war resulting in rapture? Is he going to be the one at an event to go crazy?
Seriously....his presence at all these Trump rallies since last summer is beyond bizarre....
Moostache
(9,897 posts)Maybe they will let him stand next to Trump for a while next time...
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)It amazes me how many people are just realizing all this shit.
Like last week someone goes "Did you know Trump's father was arrested at a KKK rally?" and I'm like....."Uh, YES! LIKE A YEAR AND A HALF AGO!!!!"
Weekend Warrior
(1,301 posts)dalton99a
(81,656 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)I wonder how much he's raked in for being a token? I mean, the WH literally flies him to every big event and presumably cover his hotel+food...