{"id":134385,"date":"2017-08-23T07:42:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T13:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/23\/that-blacks-for-trump-guy.html"},"modified":"2017-08-23T10:07:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T16:07:14","slug":"that-blacks-for-trump-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/23\/that-blacks-for-trump-guy.html","title":{"rendered":"That &#8220;Blacks for Trump&#8221; Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always find it fascinating to see who&#8217;s picked for the seats right behind the President at his &#8220;rallies&#8221;. It doesn&#8217;t seem to be at random, though the selections themselves are often a little odd.<\/p>\n<p>But, 99% of the time, they are white people.<\/p>\n<p>Except for that one guy, occasionally, a black man in a white t-shirt, holding up a &#8220;BLACKS FOR TRUMP&#8221; sign. He shows up every now and then. But he has an interesting story behind him, too.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"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_campaign=buffer&amp;utm_content=buffer8bff5&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=plus.google.com\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/H-Z2CbgfLjn9CHVoZeGw0zCNqOthxAILXKK2UebRR61uHJAOjsYJc6dE8ZC_17xUuKq92HZj-KM50bJ0VpxKKij95Qwg31LMsq7t2uzxnNLMN3DmTZqwZfuYOXQXfqezhdLYBpSLBK-jrxeXVf2F-jXWaApnMqFMEgybf_8hZxppi6Pb5lx0SYD3hn5XFTx5-K0AgUqIQyylpdgG-esfCO2phVac5Jwksx3to-LFxSjSQLFOVkZ_RFZRWQ_jvr3yxb0bqwHhGjR8TBMBHoN9H-pUtkOf=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"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_campaign=buffer&amp;utm_content=buffer8bff5&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=plus.google.com\">The strange story of that \u2018Blacks for Trump\u2019 guy standing behind POTUS at his Phoenix rally<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n&#8220;Michael the Black Man,\u201d as he calls himself, has been in a controversial cult, called Oprah the Devil and thinks Hillary Clinton is a KKK member.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/fhYLyqCU6NK\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always find it fascinating to see who&#8217;s picked for the seats right behind the President at his &#8220;rallies&#8221;. It doesn&#8217;t seem to be at random, though the selections themselves are often a little odd. But, 99% of the time, they are white people. Except for that one guy, occasionally, a black man in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/23\/that-blacks-for-trump-guy.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;That &#8220;Blacks for Trump&#8221; Guy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,381,740,1071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-conspiracy-nuts","category-race-racism","category-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/unnamed-6.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131497,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/11\/yes-deplorable.html","url_meta":{"origin":134385,"position":0},"title":"Yes, &quot;deplorable&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 11-Sep-16 12:44am","format":false,"excerpt":"Apparently those folk who are vehement that political correctness is destroying our country are now frothing over Clinton's generalization that half of Trump's supporters hold deplorable beliefs and prejudices.Golly.'One way of reporting on Clinton\u2019s statement is to weigh its political cost, ask what it means for her campaign, or attempt\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133513,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/19\/the-case-against-impeachment.html","url_meta":{"origin":134385,"position":1},"title":"The Case Against Impeachment","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 19-May-17 2:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Actual impeachment of Trump remains unfounded -- at least not until something more bankable (and GOP-embarrassing) than what we have so far -- loads and loads of allegations, hints, second-hand statements, anonymous reports, inferences, and informed insight, but little hard, bankable, take-it-to-court evidence -- crops up. 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