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Maurice Symonette — founder of “Blacks for Trump” — was known as Maurice Woodside until 1992, when the black supremacist cult leader he followed, Yahweh ben Yahweh, was jailed for leading a conspiracy to murder 14 white people in initiation rites.
Woodside was among the Miami-based Nation of Yahweh cult members charged in two of the murders, but he was acquitted. After the trial, he changed his last name to Symonette, which was his father’s surname, before eventually reinventing himself as Michael the Black Man, a pirate radio preacher who delivered broadsides against gays and Democrats.
At a packed campaign rally in Ocala, Florida, on Friday, as President Donald Trump delivered a xenophobic rant against Rep. Ilhan Omar, Symonette could be seen on television behind Trump rising to his feet and cheering.
The rally on Friday was the second time in five days that Symonette and one of his followers occupied prominent positions in television coverage of Trump. Symonette, who appeared behind the president’s right shoulder at the rally in Ocala, was just to Trump’s left in the live coverage of his rally in Sanford, Florida, last Monday.
On his website, Symonette makes a variety of bizarre claims, including that Omar and other prominent Black Democrats, artists and athletes — including former President Barack Obama, Jesse Jackson, Spike Lee, Colin Kaepernick, and Rep. Maxine Waters — are “DECEVING [sic] FAKE BLACK PEOPLE WHO ARE REALLY INDIANS!” In a sermon now deleted from YouTube, he claimed that the Senate is controlled by a secret underground of “Cherokee Mormons.”
In a rambling Facebook post last year, Symonette called on Trump to pardon Yahweh ben Yahweh and promised that, if he did, all of the cult leader’s remaining followers, who call themselves Yahwehs, would vote for Trump to remain president for 12 more years. According to Symonette, the cult leader had predicted Trump’s rise in 1984, when Yahweh ben Yahweh compared the real estate developer to the Persian king Cyrus.
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