The former president just made a campaign stop in Howell, Michigan, where white supremacists recently held a march and voiced support for Trump, Hitler, Nazis and the KKK.

Donald Trump’s appearance in Howell, Michigan, on Tuesday sparked controversy before he even arrived. That’s because the visit continued his notable tradition of scheduling campaign stops in locations known as hotbeds for racist extremism.

Just last month, a group of white supremacists marched in Howell and expressed their support for Trump and Adolf Hitler. As journalist Jon King wrote for the Michigan Advance, the event evoked memories of Howell’s racist — and in some cases, fairly recent — history of public bigotry and the Ku Klux Klan.

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    4 months ago

    Agreed. But it seems odd he’s out there preaching to the choir while Harris is touring battleground states.

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      4 months ago

      But it seems odd he’s out there preaching to the choir while Harris is touring battleground st

      That’s a fair point but I think it comes down to the fact that the only part of his mind that hasn’t been consumed by whatever brain rot he’s got going on seems to be his ego. In that light, it’s totally logical. (for Trump)

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        4 months ago

        Not to put words in the previous posters mouth but my thoughts are that he is riling up his militant base in anticipation of either getting jail time or losing the election so that the most violent individuals in his base of support would maybe protect and fight for him. I think that was what the previous poster was inferring.

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          4 months ago

          Ah good point I didn’t catch that. Stochastic terrorism is definitely a Trump MO, so I agree there also!