Talking Points Memo
By Allegra Kirkland
January 9, 2016
Some
registered voters in Iowa received robocalls Saturday from a white
nationalist super PAC that urged them to support Donald Trump in the
2016 election.
“I
urge you to vote for Donald Trump because he is the one candidate who
points out that we should accept immigrants who are good for America,”
Jared Taylor said on the
robocall, paid for by the American National Super PAC. “We don’t need
Muslims. We need smart, well-educated white people who will assimilate
to our culture. Vote Trump.”
Taylor
is the founder of the white supremacist magazine American Renaissance.
The robocall included two more endorsements from a conservative
Christian talk show host
and the head of the white nationalist American Freedom Party.
Reverend
Donald Tan, a Filipino-American minister and host of Christian talk
show program "For God and Country," encouraged Iowans to vote for Trump
by citing scripture.
“First
Corinthians states 'God chose the foolish things of this world to shame
the wise and God chose the weak things of this world to shame the
strong,’” he says on the
call. “For the Iowa caucuses please support Donald Trump."
The
robocall was closed out by American Freedom Party chairman William
Johnson, who identified himself only as "a farmer and white
nationalist." Johnson, who founded the
PAC that paid for the robocall, notes that Trump did not authorize it.
The
American Freedom Party had issued a press release Friday announcing the
launch of the robocall campaign, calling Trump its "Great White Hope."
Jared
Taylor also serves as a spokesman for the Council of Conservative
Citizens, which was cited in the manifesto written by Charleston shooter
Dylann Roof as the group
that opened his eyes to what he saw as the scourge of black-on-white
crime in America. Roof went on a shooting rampage at a historically
black church in June, killing nine parishioners.
Iowa
resident Dave Dwyer, who sent TPM a recording of the call, said over
the phone, "I've lived in Iowa a long time and I've never seen anything
like this."
Trump
is polling neck-and-neck with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) among likely Iowa
Republican voters just a few weeks before the Feb. 1 caucuses.
Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“The American National Super PAC makes this call to support Donald Trump.
‘My
name is Reverend Ronald Tan, host of the Christian radio talk show
program For God and Country. First Corinthians states: God chose the
foolish things of this world
to shame the wise and God chose the weak things of this world to shame
the strong. For the Iowa caucuses, please support Donald Trump. He is
courageous and he speaks his mind. God Bless.’
‘I’m
Jared Taylor with American Renaissance. I urge you to vote for Donald
Trump because he is the one candidate who points out that we should
accept immigrants who are
good for America. We don’t need Muslims. We need smart, well-educated
white people who will assimilate to our culture. Vote Trump.’
‘I
am William Johnson, a farmer and a white nationalist. Support Donald
Trump. I paid for this through the super PAC. [Telephone] (213)
718-3908. This call is not authorized
by Donald Trump.'"
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