In South Carolina, a Racist Newsletter Endorses Trump


While Sen. Ted Cruz was firing up conservatives at an arena in Greenville, South Carolina, on Thursday night, someone—presumably a supporter of Donald Trump—was leaving copies of a racist far-right newsletter on the windshields of cars parked outside the venue. Here’s the front page:

The Conservative Action Report appears to be affiliated with the South Carolina Conservative Action Council, which “proudly” defends the “Confederate South” and the Confederate flag. (This weekend, the group will hold an event to commemorate the Union army’s “satanic” attack on Charleston.) One front-page story in the newsletter is headlined “Is Barack Obama a Muslim?” Another is called “Blacks and the Confederacy—the story the leftist mass media will never tell.” An op-ed in the newsletter refers to Gov. Nikki Haley by her birth name, Nimrada Randhawa, and attacks her for her “Stalinesque” decision to remove the Confederate flag from the statehouse grounds after last year’s mass shooting in Charleston.

The newsletter, which endorses Trump and hails his proposed wall along the Mexican border, also slams Cruz (on trade) and Marco Rubio (on immigration).

The South Carolina Republican primary this year has so far been bereft of the slanderous whisper campaigns that have marked elections of the past in the Palmetto State. And this isn’t exactly a “dirty trick.” But it is a glimpse of the far extreme of the Trump coalition, which may well carry the Muslim-bashing tycoon to victory on Saturday.

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