Trump Camp Condemns Anti-McMullin Robocalls From White Nationalist

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The Donald Trump campaign on Monday denounced a robocall recorded by William Johnson, a white nationalist Trump supporter, bashing independent candidate Evan McMullin.

“We strongly condemn this rhetoric and these activities of which we have no knowledge,” Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks said in a statement to CNN.

In his robocall set to run in Utah, William Johnson, a white nationalist who has expressed his support for Trump throughout the election cycle, says that McMullin is a “closet homosexual,” according to a recording of the call published by the Daily Beast.

“Evan McMullin is an open borders, amnesty supporter. Evan has two mommies. His mother is a lesbian, married to another woman. Evan is okay with that. Indeed, Evan supports the Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage,” Johnson says in the call. “Evan is over 40 years old and is not married and doesn’t even have a girlfriend. I believe Evan is a closet homosexual. Don’t vote for Evan McMullin. Vote for Donald Trump. He will respect all women and be a president we can all be proud of.”

In the call, Johnson identifies himself as a white nationalist and says that he paid for the ad for his super PAC, American National.

When asked by the Daily Beast where he found the claims about McMullin, Johnson cited Wikipedia, a Reddit thread, and “word on the street.”

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  1. Hmmm … outside of his claiming he is against marriage equality (I personally believe he couldn’t really give a flying fuck), Donald hasn’t really attacked us in the LGBTQ community like he has women and other minorities. Something’s odd here. Roger Stone is gay or bi, right? I know Donald was good friends with the late nasty Roy Cohn (who was gay). I can’t put my finger on it … and I likely don’t want to do that.

  2. “Evan has two mommies. His mother is a lesbian, married to another woman. Evan is okay with that…Vote for Donald Trump. He will respect all women and be a president we can all be proud of.”

    All women except McMullins’ mom and her wife, I guess. This country deserves a better class of unbalanced neo-nazi misogynist freaks.

  3. Ivanka still wants to be able to show her face in Manhattan.

  4. Looks like that’s going to be a hard-ass mountain for Ivanka to climb.

  5. “Evan McMullin is an open borders, amnesty supporter. Evan has two mommies. His mother is a lesbian, married to another woman. Evan is okay with that.”

    Yeah, what’s wrong with that guy? Doesn’t he understand how Christian it is to hate your parents? It’s right in the Ten Commandments!

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