Email newsletter Popular Information rounds up the cast of White Nationalist characters with abhorrent views who have donated sums to the Trump campaign – and the Trump campaigns knows exactly who they are:
• “[Aryan Nations preacher Morris] Gulett is also deeply anti-Semitic, ending every sermon with a Nazi salute. His website asserted that ‘the Jew is the literal child of Satan and is the natural enemy of the White race, the Children of God.’ The Trump campaign has accepted at least $2000 from Gulett in 29 separate transactions since December 2017. The most recent contribution from Gulett, according to Federal Election Commission data, was dated May 31, 2020.”
• “The Trump campaign has also accepted the maximum donation from Peter Zieve, a Washington State businessman. Zieve was sued by Washington State for discriminating against minority applicants and imposing his racist views on his employees. The lawsuit describes how Zieve allegedly screened applicants by race, hired a nearly all-white staff, and offered employees a $1000 bonus for getting married and another $1000 bonus for having children. The stated purpose of the ‘procreation bonus’ was to prevent the country from being overrun by minorities.”
• “K.C. McAlpin is a long-time associate of John Tanton, ‘the racist architect of the modern anti-immigrant movement.’ Tanton founded a constellation of anti-immigrant groups. A collection of Tanton’s private papers at the University of Michigan exposed his white nationalist views. ‘I’ve come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that,’ Tanton wrote. McAlpin defended Tanton’s comments in a 2018 column posted on Tanton’s website. According to McAlpin, Tanton’s comments were not ‘about race’ but ‘the preservation of European culture and traditions.’ McAlpin argues that ‘Tanton was right about that concern.’ McAlpin is also a frequent donor to the Trump campaign. McAlpin has donated about $1600 to the Trump campaign since April 2019. The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment from Popular Information.”
• One of the biggest supporters of Trump’s reelection campaign is Timothy Mellon, ‘a reclusive heir to the wealthy Mellon family fortune.’ Mellon has donated $10 million to American First Action, the approved Super PAC of Trump’s 2020 campaign. America First Action is chaired by Linda McMahon, a former member of Trump’s cabinet, and stocked with alums of the Trump campaign and Trump White House. In a self-published autobiography, Mellon wrote that social programs had made black people ‘even more belligerent’ and ‘ unwilling to pitch in to improve their own situations.’ Blacks who benefit from social programs like nutrition assistance or Obamacare are ‘slaves of a new Master, Uncle Sam.’ Mellon described ‘Black Studies, Women’s Studies, [and] LGBT Studies’ as ‘meaningless tripe designed to brainwash gullible young adults into going along with the Dependency Syndrome.’