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News ‘Blacks For Trump’ Man Claims Mantle Of Fallen Hebrew Israelite Leader
Who is “Michael the Black Man”? Spotted earlier this year at Trump rallies enthusiastically hoisting “Blacks for Trump” signs, Michael Symonette is back in the national spotlight after scoring a prominent seat at Trump’s rally this week in Phoenix. He’s not your typical political activist, though. He holds particularly unusual beliefs about ancient history, global…
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Fast Forward The Story Behind This ‘Blacks For Trump’ Guy Is Even Stranger Than It Sounds
“Michael the Black Man” is back. Spotted earlier during the campaign, hoisting “Blacks for Trump” signs at rallies, Michael Symonette — a Miami activist who believes blacks and whites are the true Hebrews of the Bible and Trump was elevated by the Hebrew god Yahweh to lead — is back to let the world know…
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Fast Forward Televangelist Says Resisting Trump Is ‘Fighting The Hand Of God’
Paula White, spiritual adviser to Donald Trump, believes that the president is a king who has been “authentically raised up by God” to lead — and that opposition to the president is tantamount to resisting God’s will. “Whether people like him or not, he’s been raised up by God because God says that He raises…
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Life Does The Torah Obligate Us To Judge Trump Favorably?
The great Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev was known for his love of Jews and his refusal to denigrate another. It is told of him that once, on the morning of Yom Kippur, he saw a man smoking outside the synagogue. Yitzhak approached the man and said, “Surely, my friend, you do not know that it…
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News With Bannon Out Of White House, Is Sebastian Gorka Next?
With Steve Bannon officially out of the White House, some insiders say controversial deputy assistant Sebastian Gorka could be next on the chopping block. Multiple White House officials are saying that Gorka’s fate is up in the air now that his boss, Bannon, has been ousted by President Trump, according to reports from Tthe Daily…
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Fast Forward Trump’s Evangelical ‘Prayer Warriors’ Call Him ‘Prophet’ After Charlottesville
Frank Amedia, a former Christian policy liaison for the Trump campaign who believes the president is an instrument of God is sticking by his cherished leader in the wake of a violent white nationalist gathering in Virginia — and says Trump himself is acting as a prophet. “Bad on both sides, wake up church,” Amedia…
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Fast Forward Jewish GOP Lawmaker Walks Back Support For Trump On Charlottesville — A Bit
Congressman Lee Zeldin is the latest in a growing contingent of Jewish Republican political figures walking back their support for Trump. On CNN Friday morning Zeldin issued a more full-throated disagreement with the equivalence Trump drew on Tuesday between white supremacists and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia. Zeldin’s first statement on the matter backed Trump’s take….
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Life Why I’m Reading Holocaust Literature Today, In Trump’s America
My agnostic, Presbyterian-raised husband and I, a reform Jew, never had conflict between our outlooks on life. We had a Jewish wedding; we are raising our child as Jewish, too. But the election of Trump, surprisingly, highlighted one difference between us, one that I had never noticed before. To me, the Holocaust was still very…
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