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Wed May 11, 2016, 03:10 PM May 2016

Trump Welcomes White Nationalist As California Campaign Delegate

It’s becoming far too common to be coincidental, but once again the Trump campaign has been linked to associations with white power groups as the delegate-selection process chose one particularly distinguished white nationalist to re/present Donald Trump at the Republican convention.

William Johnson, one of the country’s most prominent white nationalists, told Mother Jones that he felt honored to have been selected and felt that the choice made his hateful views more “mainstream.”

“I just hope to show how I can be mainstream and have these views. I can be a white nationalist and be a strong supporter of Donald Trump and be a good example to everybody.”

Johnson’s roots in the white power movement go back decades, having been a strong proponent for a nation-wide removal of all minority groups including people with any ‘ascertainable trace of Negro blood.’

Johnson was also the fellow who funded the white-power robocalls for the Trump campaign earlier in the election cycle. Despite Trump’s hesitant support of his group, his devotion to Trump is unshakable because it is teaching the rest of the nation that his views are maybe not as extreme as they once were considered:

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