Trump Says He’ll Return Donation From White Nationalist: ‘Don’t Be So Angry’

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a campaign stop in Manchester, N.H., Monday, Feb. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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After fielding a question in New Hampshire about campaign contributions from white supremacists, Republican Donald Trump said Monday he would return the donation from a backer behind robocalls to voters extolling Trump as the country’s “Great White Hope.”

At an event one day before the state’s first-in-the-nation primary, Trump told an attendee he “would certainly return it if you think it is appropriate,” as reported by The Hill.

“I would return it. Don’t be so angry, I don’t even know who he is,” Trump also said.

The Hill reported the donation in question was from William Daniel Johnson, a corporate lawyer the Southern Poverty Law Center calls “an uninspiring but determined white separatist” who once railed against “Harry Potter kissing a Chinese girl” in a movie commercial.

FEC records show a man named William Johnson, employed by the Johnson & Associates law firm in Los Angeles, donated $250 to Trump’s campaign in September 2015.

Johnson, chairman of the white nationalist American Freedom Party, has told TPM Trump’s candidacy is a positive step toward America becoming a white ethno-state and for destroying the “middle-of-the-road Republican mindset.”

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  1. Trump : " I’ll return this donation… but I won’t disagree with what he says or stands for " —

  2. So, if the crowd hadn’t said to give it back he would have kept it. “I only have principles when my voters demand that I do.”

  3. Trump on White Nationalist Donor: “I don’t even know who he is.”

    In all fairness, there’s a lot of stuff Trump doesn’t know.

  4. Republican Donald Trump said Monday he would return the donation from a backer behind robocalls to voters extolling Trump as the country’s “Great White Hope.”

    Will that be before or after he renounces the endorsement from The Daily Stormer?

  5. That’s mighty white of him.

    So many ways to expose the rank vulgarity of this man, that he was ok with it in the first place, that he is now being “PC”, that he doesn’t think it would be a problem (just that others might think it is a problem)… the man has truly lost it.

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