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    Blacks for Trump guy has some deeply weird views about Cherokees, Masons and Obama

    Blacks for Trump guy has some deeply weird views about Cherokees, Masons and Obama

    Michael Walsh Reporter
    ,Yahoo NewsAugust 23, 2017



    Black supporters of Donald Trump make their way through Times Square, Nov. 9, 2016. (Photo: Gordon Donovan/Yahoo News) More

    Anyone watching President Trump’s speech in Phoenix Tuesday night couldn’t miss the man conspicuously seated behind the podium holding a “Blacks for Trump” sign and wearing a T-shirt that reads “Trump & Republicans are not racist.”


    Michael Symonette, who goes by “Michael the Black Man” and sometimes Maurice Symonette, is a fringe political figure in Florida and has become a familiar face at conservative rallies and Trump events around Miami. He was even seen marching with a group holding “Blacks for Trump” signs through Times Square on election night last year.

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    Symonette’s conspicuous placement behind Trump’s podium at many rallies appears to be an optics exercise for an administration that’s been plagued with accusations of racism. Even a cursory glance at this supporter’s history is enough to raise questions about his proximity to the commander in chief.

    But it also seems that he might be exploiting the attention he gets as the Blacks for Trump creator on stage behind Trump to attract followers for his deeply racist and wildly unhinged spiritual views.


    For starters, his trademark T-shirt lists a website Gods2.com, which redirects viewers to honestfact.com, a page teeming with outlandish conspiracy theories, compared to which Alex Jones is a voice of calm reason. He thinks the Cherokee Indians were “the real KKK slave masters” and that Hillary Clinton is secretly plotting with ISIS to kill all black and white women in America.


    A controversial supporter of President Trump holds up a sign as the president speaks to a crowd at the Phoenix Convention Center Aug.22, 2017. (Photo: Ralph Freso/Getty Images) More

    His alternative history holds that black and white people were in the Americas before the Native Americans and must unite against the Cherokee Indians. A display of the Confederate battle flag is captioned “Cherokee Democrat Flag.”


    The website has a long list of mostly incomprehensible headlines like “ROCKERFELLER IS NIMROD KING OF THE CANAANITES & SAUD THE KING OF THE ISHMAELITES MASONIC ILLUMINATI TRILATERALIST BIG BANKS KKK.”


    Among his deranged claims are that former President Barack Obama is a “shape shifting mason who acts Black but is Cherokee.”


    Symonette posts many unhinged rants on YouTube. In one video he asked viewers to donate money so he could follow Trump around the country with his “Blacks for Trump” signs to convince more people to become Republicans.


    “I want to take hundreds of brothers around the country to let other white people and other black people see us standing with him,” Symonette said.

    “That’s why we have gods2.com [on the shirts and signs], so that people will know why we’re standing up for him, that we’re not just a bunch of Uncle Tom sellouts. That’s why I’ve never taken a payment.”


    Mug shot of Maurice A. Woodside, a,k.a. Michael the Black Man and Maurice Michael Symonette, on July 27, 2010. (Photo: Miami-Dade Corrections) More

    He said he’s actively opposed Democrats since 1997.

    He led a protest against Obama during a rally in Coral Gables, Fla., in 2008 and claims that this led to an assassination attempt.


    “I’m the same black man who got shot in the back of the head because I stood up against Obama by assassins sent by Obama,” he said.


    According to Media Matters
    , Symonette’s old websites promoted a book that called Oprah Winfrey “the devil” and Obama “the beast 666.”


    He is a former member of the Nation of Yahweh, a violent black supremacist cult that was led by the charismatic Hulon Mitchell Jr. Mitchell went by the name Yahweh Ben Yahweh, which means “the Lord son of the Lord.” He was convicted of conspiring to kill white people as an initiation right in 1992 and served 11 years of an 18-year sentence related to 14 murders in Miami in the 1980s.


    Miami New Times reports that Symonette was charged with conspiracy in connection with two of the murders. His brother, another member of the cult, told the jury that Symonette beat one man who was later murdered and stuck a sharpened stick through another’s eye. Symonette was acquitted, but Mitchell and 14 followers were convicted. Mitchell died in 2007.


    Hulon Mitchell Jr., also known as Yahweh ben Yahweh, is led into the federal court house in New Orleans by FBI agents, Nov. 7, 1990. (Photo: Bill Haber/AP) More

    It’s unclear whether the Trump administration knows about Symonette’s radical views or ties to the violent cult. But Trump routinely pointed out the “Blacks for Trump” signs during rallies.


    During an October stop in Sanford, Fla., for instance, Trump shouted, “Look at those signs behind me.

    Blacks for Trump! I like those signs. Blacks for Trump! You watch. You watch. Those signs are great! Thank you.”


    Yahoo News asked the U.S. Secret Service whether it had any concerns about Symonette being in such proximity to the president.


    Special Agent Joseph A. Casey responded: “Members of the general public who are granted access to a U.S. Secret Service protected site are subjected to established security protocols. For security reasons, the Secret Service does not comment on the means or methods used to conduct protective operations.”


    The audience at rallies is screened by walk-through metal detectors and security guards with magnetometer wands. There is no additional vetting for people seated behind the president. Those seats are typically given to VIPs and additional people selected from the crowd, clearly prioritizing certain people for public relations purposes. “Women for Trump” signs, for instance, were a common sight behind Trump at the height of backlash to the infamous “Access Hollywood” tapes.


    Symonette has attended many other Republican events over the years. He’s posted pictures of himself posing with Sen. Marco Rubio, Sen. Ted Cruz and Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president. He spoke a Rick Santorum rally in January 2012 in Coral Springs, Fla., where he described Democrats as “the worst thing that ever happen to the black man. They’re the slave masters.”


    Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a campaign rally, Oct. 12, 2016, in Lakeland, Fla. (Photo: Evan Vucci/AP)

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    It is unfortunate that he got such exposure - it would be nice to know who allowed it. Someone OK'd his placement.

    He is the first nutjob at a political rally -

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    ‘Michael the Black Man’ at Trump’s Phoenix rally is former cult member who thinks Cherokees are destroying America

    BY TERENCE CULLEN
    NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
    Wednesday, August 23, 2017, 1:37 PM

    “Michael the Black Man,” a fixture at Trump campaign rallies over the last two years, was once a member of a cult who believes many of the President’s enemies are Cherokee Indians.

    The outspoken Trump supporter goes by several aliases — Michael Woodside and Michael Symonette — was spotted in his “TRUMP & Republicans ARE NOT RACISTS” and holding his “BLACKS FOR TRUMP” sign at the President’s rally Tuesday night.

    “I’m glad I was there to get the message out (about) what’s going on with the Democrats and the Cherokee Indians” who are “absolutely destroying the black man and the white man of America,” Michael told Chicago radio station WLS on Wednesday morning.

    Michael — a former cult member who has previously accused Oprah Winfrey of being the devil — said he got in line at about 8 a.m. Tuesday and was the sixth person waiting.

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    “I put myself there,” he told the station when asked if he was placed behind the President. But his prominence might’ve helped, he added. “They have seen me a lot of times.”

    His website, Gods2.com, is featured prominently on his T-shirt and directs to a page of deeper thoughts on the Cherokees.

    “The Real K K K Slave Masters Revealed...& they are CHEROKEE Indians (Hidden Babylonians),” his website reads.

    Michael alleges the Confederate flag is that of the Cherokee, a Native American tribe driven to the midwest during Andrew Jackson’s administration in the 1800s.

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    Michael was spotted behind Trump's right shoulder at Tuesday night's rally.
    (RALPH FRESO/GETTY IMAGES)

    He told WLS on Wednesday that the Cherokee formed the KKK, citing the pointed hats affiliated with Klansmen are “teepees and they were hiding under it.”

    The Cherokee Nation didn’t immediately comment on Michael’s accusations.

    The GOP rallier has made a name for himself in Miami as a prominent anti-Democratic demonstrator.

    He was born Maurice Woodside and joined the Yahweh Ben Yahweh cult somewhere around 1980, according to a 2011 Miami New Times story.

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    The cult, headed by Hulon Mitchell Jr. and tied to several Miami-area murders in the mid-1980s, recruited not just Woodside, but his brother Ricarod and several other relatives.

    He and 15 other members were charged in 1990 with conspiring to murder two people, and his brother testified Michael helped beat a man and stabbed him in the eyer before he was killed by the cult.

    Michael and his co-defedants were acquitted, but Mitchell was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

    He acknowledged his ties to Yahweh Ben Yahweh on Wednesday, saying Mitchell “was a black man that was destroyed by the Clintons because we were black and prominent and doing things positive, as they have attacked all black organizations.”

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    At various parts of the WLS interview, he also accused Bill Clinton and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) of being Cherokees.

    After his time with the cult, he changed his name to Michael Symonette reinvented himself as “Michael the Black Man,” worked as a musician and launched a Miami radio station, according to a 2016 Miami New Times profile.

    In the last 20 years Michael was charged with carrying a weapon on an airplane, threatening a police officer and grand theft auto, according to the newspaper.

    He made a name for himself in GOP circles. He made headlines in September 2008 when he accused Winfrey of being the devil as well as accusing then-Presidential candidate Barack Obama of “being endorsed by the KKK.”

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    Michael recorded a video of himself at a Palm Beach County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner last July, according to the Washington Post, appearing with Gov. Rick Scott.

    But he launched into prominence last October, when he appeared at a Lakeland, Fla., Trump rally in the last days of the campaign.

    Michael's appearance Tuesday night came after hours of waiting in line, and he said he wasn't placed by the campaign.
    (RICK SCUTERI/AP)

    He told the Miami New Times after the Lakeland rally that he liked Trump for wanting to lower taxes.

    And why did he despise Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton?

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    "One reason is because Hillary's last name is Rodham, and their family members are Rothchilds, who enslaved 13,000 slaves as collateral," he told the Miami New Times. "She's also on camera kissing the head of the Ku Klux Klan and saying, 'That's my mentor.' That's all on my website."

    At another rally in Sanford, Fla., about two weeks later, Trump turned around and acknowledged the crowd.

    “I love the signs behind me. Blacks for Trump. I like those signs,” Trump said. “Blacks for Trump. You watch. You watch. Those signs are great.”

    When reached for comment by the Washington Post on Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders deferred the matter to the Trump campaign, which didn’t immediately comment on Michael’s presence at the rally.

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    Again, this is news worthy as he is the first EVER nutjob to attend political rallies. Right????

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    I find it interesting that they were able to know all this about the guy so quickly.....Yahoo News, is in my opinion, a leftist propaganda site. Petty, vicious and always on the attack with a narrative. It shows that these so called news organizations will print anything or go after anyone for a rating or a click.
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    Yes, it does make you wonder if he might be a plant.

    Let's talk about 'odd' and delusion people sitting behind the candidate at rallies. ALL those people sitting behind Hillary Clinton thought she would be a good president. Delusional - for sure, for sure.

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