White Supremacists To Launch Pro-Trump Radio Ads

The Los Angeles Times reports:

A white nationalist who funded robocalls for Donald Trump during the primary season will be out with a new radio ad this weekend urging votes for the Republican nominee. Trump has repeatedly disavowed support from white supremacists, after initially failing to do so, but the organizations and their members are more energized to vote for Trump than any mainstream candidate in decades.

William Johnson, a Los Angeles attorney — and self-described “deplorable” — is funding the ads, through the American National Super PAC. He notes that they are not authorized by Trump. The spot will begin running Saturday on “The Political Cesspool” with James Edwards, which the Southern Poverty Law Center describes as an “overtly racist” show based in Tennessee that has hosted David Duke and a “wide roster of white supremacists, anti-Semites and other extremists.”

The ad will continue through election day. It will also run on other radio shows, including “Liberty RoundTable,” which People for the American Way says has ties to Edwards. The radio shows are not unfamiliar to Trump’s team.

Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., appeared on “Liberty RoundTable” this year with Edwards, but the campaign suggested confusion about the arrangement, according to reports. This week, another of Trump’s sons, Eric, also appeared on the show, and Trump economic advisor Stephen Moore also recently appeared, according to People for the American Way’s “Right Wing Watch.”

You may recall that Johnson was selected as a Trump delegate for the GOP convention.