‘They don’t need the baggage:’ White supremacist resigns as Trump delegate
Source: The Washington Post
A prominent national white supremacist leader has resigned as a Donald J. Trump delegate to the Republican National Convention after campaign officials said his nomination was the result of a “database error.”
William Daniel Johnson, who has called for a whites-only United States and the deportation of other races and ethnicities, said in an interview Wednesday that he resigned for the good of the Trump campaign, which he supports.
“They don’t need the baggage that came along with my signing up as a delegate,” said Johnson, a Los Angeles corporate lawyer who has been active in U.S. white supremacy circles for more than three decades.
Johnson’s name was included in a slate of delegates that the Trump campaign submitted Monday for certification by the California secretary of state’s office.
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Who is William Johnson? From the Southern Poverty Law Center:
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/william-daniel-johnson
As early as 1985, Johnson proposed a constitutional amendment that would revoke the American citizenship of every nonwhite inhabitant of the United States. A quarter century later, in 2010, he was still actively supporting white nationalist causes, serving as chairman of the racist American Third Position political party (renamed American Freedom Party in 2013), established the prior year. The party wants to run racist candidates nationwide..
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