Trump Camp On 'White Power' Shouts At Rally: People Like Our Message

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

By CATHERINE THOMPSON Published AUGUST 24, 2015, 11:50 AM EDT

Real estate mogul Donald Trump's presidential campaign said Sunday that it wasn't aware of an individual who reportedly yelled "white power" at a rally for the candidate.

Self-styled "white nationalists" from all over the far-right spectrum have been drawn to Trump's hardline immigration stance this election cycle. CNN's Jim Acosta asked Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, about reports that a man yelled "white power" multiple times Friday at the rally in Mobile, Alabama:

"I don't know about the individual you're talking about in Alabama," Lewandowski said on "State of the Union." "I know there were 30-plus thousand people in that stadium. They were very receptive to the message of 'making America great again' because they want to be proud to be Americans again."

Lewandowski's answer echoed his boss' initial response to a hate crime that occurred last week in Boston and was apparently inspired by his anti-immigrant rhetoric. Trump said that he wasn't aware of the attack and immediately pivoted to praising his supporters' "passion," before using stronger language to condemn the beating two days later.

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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/donald-trump-supporter-white-power

[snooper2]

1. Lady on smartphone, posting on Facebook, "They ain't paying enough for this shit"

[thecrow]

9. Oh, that was my first thought, too!!!

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

2. Equal parts Nazism and fascism

Fear of minorities, immigrants and promising a strong, dictatorial father figure who will force things to be their way

He even has folks who fancy themselves as his brownshirts, as we saw over the weekend with the guys behind the beating.

What Trump is peddling is quite dangerous, and the fawning, starstruck media that keeps giving him endless airtime is being highly irresponsible.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. When are people going to jump on...

obvious bullshit like the alleged 30,000 people when no more than 20,000 were there (and most of them just curious and looking for a good show on a slow weekend)

And the proper answer to the white power shout out isn't "I don't know" but "We looked for it on the tapes and couldn't find it, but if it did happen it was wrong." Unless they did find it on the tapes-- then it's still wrong.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

4. His supporters also celebrate him as the 2nd coming of George Wallace

Before Trump arrived, his fans — some carrying signs, others wearing T-shirts supporting the billionaire businessman — spoke of his outsider status in a crowded field dominated by former and current elected officials as the song "Sweet Home Alabama" blared from loudspeakers.

"Donald Trump is telling the truth and people don't always like that," said Donald Kidd, a 73-year-old retired pipe welder from Mobile. "He is like George Wallace, he told the truth. It is the same thing."

Wallace, a fierce opponent of civil rights, served as governor of Alabama and sought the presidency multiple times.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/us_politics/2015/08/in_alabama_trump_says_hed_like_to_have_election_tomorrow

Sounds like this guy listens to Mika, Halperin and JoeDeadIntern on MSNBC mornings. They can't stop hailing this racist, pathological, lying birther as some kind of brave truth teller.

[maryellen99]

5. Who else thinks Trump is going to drop the n bomb and get it away with it? Nt

[pampango]

6. Many white nationalists are throwing their support to the Donald.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has tracked a number of other white nationalists who have been throwing their support behind The Donald. They include:

Gregory Hood, a writer who penned an essay in support of Trump for the white nationalist blog Radix. Hood wrote:

Trump is worth supporting. He is worth supporting because we need a troll. We need someone who can expose the system that rules us as the malevolent and worthless entity it is.

Brad Griffin, founder of the Occidental Dissent, a website that describes itself as "Pro-White, Pro-South, Pro-Indepdence." On Trump, Griffin recently wrote:

Donald Trump isn’t a conservative or a racialist by any stretch of the imagination, but he is a tornado that can inflict a lot of damage upon the two-party system.

Jared Taylor, considered one of the leading intellectual voices of the white nationalist movement, praised Trump's comments about Mexican immigrants in a video posted on the website of his American Renaissance journal:

Americans, real Americans have been dreaming of a candidate who says the obvious, that illegal immigrants from Mexico are a low-rent bunch that includes rapists and murders.

http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-08-21/trump-condemns-attack-homeless-man-supporters-theyre-not-his-only-questionable

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

7. "because they want to be proud to be Americans again"

There are many Americans we can be proud of. Donbald tRump is not one of them.

[kimbutgar]

8. Trump's message, make America great for white people

His messages are so racist. Why doesn't he just say, "yes I believe in white power" and get it over with. He doesn't have much of a filter.

[geek tragedy]

10. The Republican party is a White Nationalist party so this makes sense.

Trump is running for the nomination of the actual Republican party, not the pro-freedom, pro-prosperity fiction that swindlers like Rubio and Jeb! peddle.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

11. They weren't yelling white power

They were yelling white POWDER because they want cocaine legalized. And they want a sniff with Donbald tRump.