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Cattledog

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Wed Aug 23, 2017, 01:48 PM Aug 2017

The strange story of that Blacks for Trump guy standing behind POTUS.

At a number of political rallies over the past year, a character calling himself “Michael the Black Man” has appeared in the crowd directly behind Donald Trump, impossible to miss and prompting widespread fascination.

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 Trump’s 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 man’s bizarre URL, an easily accessible gateway to his strange and checkered past.

Read the article at:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/23/the-strange-story-of-that-blacks-for-trump-guy-standing-behind-potus-at-his-phoenix-rally/?utm_term=.92aef7fbd96c&wpisrc=nl_mix&wpmm=1

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The strange story of that Blacks for Trump guy standing behind POTUS. (Original Post) Cattledog Aug 2017 OP
he probably travels to these 'rallies' on air force one. spanone Aug 2017 #1
Yep, he's for sell and on the payroll. brush Aug 2017 #2
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