Trump Selects a White Nationalist Leader as a Delegate in California

[brooklynite]

Source: Mother Jones

On Monday evening, California's secretary of state published a list of delegates chosen by the Trump campaign for the upcoming Republican presidential primary in the state. Trump's slate includes William Johnson, one of the country's most prominent white nationalists.

Johnson applied to the Trump campaign to be a delegate. He was accepted on Monday. In order to be approved he had to sign this pledge sent to him by the campaign: "I, William Johnson, endorse Donald J. Trump for the office of President of the United States. I pledge to cast ALL of my ballots to elect Donald J. Trump on every round of balloting at the 2016 Republican National Convention so that we can MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" After he signed, the Trump campaign added his name to the list of 169 delegates it forwarded to the secretary of state.

"I just hope to show how I can be mainstream... and be a white nationalist and a strong supporter of Donald Trump."
Johnson leads the American Freedom Party, a group that "exists to represent the political interests of White Americans" and aims to preserve "the customs and heritage of the European American people." The AFP has never elected a candidate of its own and possesses at most a few thousand members, but it is "arguably the most important white nationalist group in the country," according to Mark Potok, a senior fellow for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which tracks hate groups.

Johnson got the news that he had been selected by Trump in a congratulatory email sent to him by the campaign's California Delegate Coordinator, Katie Lagomarsino. "I just hope to show how I can be mainstream and have these views," Johnson tells Mother Jones. "I can be a white nationalist and be a strong supporter of Donald Trump and be a good example to everybody."

Read more: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/05/donald-trump-white-nationalist-afp-delegate-california

[maxsolomon]

1. They can't be expected to know who every Bill Johnson in the country is

Give Trump a break - he's promised to be a good example to everybody!

[brooklynite]

3. What I find interesting is that all you apparently have to do is send in an application...

[Glorfindel]

2. Birds of a Feather?

hmmmm......

[KamaAina]

4. I'm sure tech gazillionaire Peter Thiel will be thrilled that a white supremacist is joining him

as a CA Trump delegate.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027821616

[Initech]

5. Trump 2016: The leading candidate of choice for racist uncles across the US!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Not just any old White Nazionalist, a *prominent* White Nazionalist. No excuses. . . nt

[LS_Editor]

7. Trump Selects Hermann Goering as a GOP Delegate

Almost...

Trump Selects Hermann Goering as a GOP Delegate

WASHINGTON (The Nil Admirari) - Today, presumptive Republican presidential nominee and fickle billionaire Donald Trump selected World War I fighter pilot ace Hermann Goering to be one of his GOP delegates from Germany. Trump brushed off critics that informed him Germany did not have Republican Convention delegates, and Hermann Goering was a Nazi who had been dead since 1946.

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Trump continued, "I won't have a war veteran and huge hero tarnished just because he wants to support me, or because he is dead, or because he was maybe - maybe - a Nazi."

[Eugene]

8. Some 'glitch'. Not just any white nationalist, but one who made robocalls for Trump.

From The Washington Post:

Donald Trump’s delegate ineptitude stumbles into white nationalism

By Philip Bump May 10 at 5:02 PM

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On Tuesday, the liberal magazine Mother Jones reported a development that can only be described as astonishing. William Johnson, a prominent white nationalist who recorded a robocall on behalf of Trump that ran in several states earlier this year, says he received an email from the Trump campaign confirming that he had been chosen to represent Trump for California at the convention in Cleveland.

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Update: In an email, Trump campaign spokewoman Hope Hicks blamed a glitch.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/10/donald-trumps-delegate-ineptitude-stumbles-into-white-nationalism/

From the Southern Poverty Law Center's Extremist Files: William Daniel Johnson

There is no excuse for this. Trump's people should have seen this coming,
if only for their self-interest in keeping the ultra-rabid white supremacists
at arm's length.

[Dr. Strange]

9. In his defense, you can't really expect him to know everyone associated with his campaign.

That's a lot of people to keep track of. It's really easy to mix people up, confuse one person with another, mistake this person and that. That's a lot of detail to have to manage.

So anyway...

VOTE TRUMP!

Who better to run our foreign policy and have their finger on the nuclear button?

[IronLionZion]

10. Trump campaign vetting is basically

if they're white, it's OK.

If they're not, punch them in the face hard.

In another state Trump's voters rejected his delegates for having "foreign-sounding" and "black-sounding" names.