>LIVE: President Trump Delivers Remarks on Crime and Safety in Howell, MI - 8/20/24
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Fake news insinuates Potus is a White Supremecist for visiting Howell, MI via stupid question.
Potus to fake news: Who was here in 2021?
Fake News: Joe Biden
Potus: thank you everybody. mic drop walks off
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>Fake news insinuates Potus is a White Supremecist for visiting Howell, MI via stupid question.
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Trump campaigns in Michigan town with historic links to white extremism
Story by Helen Coster and Nathan Layne
⢠54m ⢠3 min read
HOWELL, Michigan (Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump visited a Michigan town on Tuesday one month after white supremacists rallied there, sparking renewed criticism from Democrats who accuse his campaign of stirring up racial tensions for political gain.
The Trump campaign released prepared remarks that showed he would attack Democratic rival Kamala Harris' record on criminal justice while speaking at the Livingston County Sheriff's Office in Howell, a town of some 10,000 people northwest of Detroit.
A Trump campaign spokesperson rejected criticism of the site of the event, promising Trump would speak against "hate of any form." President Joe Biden visited Howell in 2021.
The campaign stop is one of a number Trump is holding this week as Democrats meet in Chicago to formally choose Vice President Harris as their nominee in the Nov. 5 election.
But the event in Howell has attracted particular attention because of the town's association with the Ku Klux Klan. The town has historical links to the KKK: In the 1970s, Grand Dragon Robert Miles had a Howell mailing address and held meetings on a nearby farm.
About a dozen white supremacists chanted "Heil Hitler" and carried signs reading "White Lives Matter" during a march through downtown Howell last month. According to local media, another group of demonstrators shouted, "We love Hitler, we love Trump" from a highway overpass just outside Howell.
The Harris campaign has criticized Trump for planning the event in Howell while failing to condemn what it called a "blatant display of racism and antisemitism in his name." In an interview with Reuters after a rally in Pennsylvania on Monday, Trump did not directly respond to a question about that criticism.
Trump has been widely criticized for racist remarks about Harris, who if elected in November would be the first Black woman and South Asian person to become president.
At a gathering of Black journalists last month he falsely suggested that she recently "turned Black" to advance her political career. He often insults Harris' intelligence, her heritage and her looks.
Last week, an official Trump campaign account on X posted two images side-by-side, one showing a pristine small-town American front porch with a flag and the other showing mostly Black migrants crowding outside a New York City hotel. The caption on the post read: "Import the third world. Become the third world.â
The Trump War Room post drew fire from the NAACP civil rights group as racist, but Trump's aides stood by it. Trump has often suggested that the United States is facing an "invasion" of migrants from the southern border.
'WHY THERE, WHY NOW?'
Nicole Matthews Creech, executive director of the Livingston Diversity Council, which was created in 1987 in response to KKK activity in the community, said residents who encountered last month's rally ignored it or rebuked the demonstrators.
They're not welcome here, and hate is not welcome here,â she told Reuters.
Trump's visit to Howell one month after that rally should not be viewed in a vacuum, said Nazita Lajevardi, an associate professor of political science at Michigan State University.
"It begs the question: why there, why now?" Lajevardi said, noting that Howell is not populous. "The timing is important, the symbolism is important, and it can't just be seen in a vacuum."
Michael Murphy, the sheriff of Livingston County and a Trump supporter, said in an interview he suspects the Trump campaign chose Howell because criminal activity has remained flat in Livingston County for about 15 years.
"It really gets me fired up when people try to turn anything in this county into racist or hate because thatâs not us," Murphy said. "We canât change the fact that at one time the grand dragon of the KKK lived in our county and unfortunately that's history, but history is just that - it's history."
The Trump campaign chose Howell because the event will get coverage by media outlets in Detroit, located in the critical swing state of Michigan, campaign officials said. It is also where Murphy, a stalwart ally of Trump, is based and the event will showcase his office's vehicles and equipment, they said.
"Trump will travel to Howell to deliver a strong message on law and order, making it clear that crime, violence and hate of any form will have zero place in our country when he is back in the White House," Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said.
(Reporting by Nathan Layne and Helen Coster; Additional reporting by David Shepherdson; Editing by Ross Colvin, Deepa Babington and Daniel Wallis)
>reeeeeeee very fine people
>provides some context, but REUTERS is heavily biased against Trump.
The context is, The Fake News has been smearing Howell, Michigan for decades.
If Potato visits Howell, crickets
If Trump visits Howell, reeeeeee KKK Raycism Very Fine People
Former KKK Grand Dragon Robert Miles, who died 25 years ago.
Death of a klansman, 25 years later: How the sick legacy of Bob Miles continues to haunt Howell
By Buddy Moorehouse on August 15, 2017
With the ugliness and hatred that was on display in Charlottesville last week comes this ironic anniversary: It was 25 years ago today that the Klansman from Livingston County died. And yet, 25 years later, he still wonât die.
This is the story of one evil man and how he single-handedly ruined a townâs reputation. And how he continues to ruin it to this day.
âPastorâ Robert E. Miles was the Grand Dragon of the Michigan Ku Klux Klan, and is still considered one of the most influential white supremacists of all time. Unfortunately for us, he made his home â quite publicly â in Livingston County. He moved to Howell in the early 1960s and later settled on a farm in Cohoctah Township, where he held cross-burnings and other hate rallies through the years. As we saw in Charlottesville, the racist hatred that he proudly championed lives on, as well.
He died 25 years ago today â Aug. 16, 1992. Weâve been free of Bob Miles for 25 years, but his sick legacy lives on, and it continues to haunt Livingston County to this day.
Particularly Howell. Thanks to Bob Miles, people all over the country still think that thereâs an active Klan in Howell. (There isnât.) Thanks to Bob Miles, the town still hasnât been able to shake this totally unfair reputation that itâs a haven for racists.
The Grand Dragon has been dead for 25 years, and he still wonât die.
Case in point: A few months back, I got an e-mail from filmmaker in California. He had seen the documentary âBlood in the Face,â which was mostly filmed at a racist gathering at Milesâ farm in the late 1980s. This guy had seen some stuff I had written about Miles in the past, and wanted to see if I could help him locate some of the people who were interviewed in âBlood in the Face.â
This is what he wrote to me:
âThanks for the reply and for taking time to consider, as I said I figured it was a longshot. Weâre also reaching out to a few people who worked on the Blood In the Face doc. Are you still covering that alt-right (or whatever we are calling it these days) beat? As a local Michigander I would be curious to hear your impressions of how things have played out in the lead up to Trumpâs election and since he took office. I gather Howell is still something of a hotbed for Ultra Nationalist, Nazi, KKK, etcâŚâ
Sigh. This guy â who has never been here â thinks that Howell is âstill something of a hotbedâ for the Klan.
Thank you, Bob Miles.
Itâs been that way for more than a half-century â ever since Miles moved to Livingston County. He single-handedly ruined our reputation.
Consider this story on Miles that was published in the Ann Arbor News on April 25, 1972. This is how they described us:
âMiles was interviewed at a truck stop near his farm home in Cohoctah in rural Livingston County, known by many as âklan country.ââ
Thatâs how people in the media were describing us in 1972. âKlan country.â
https://thelivingstonpost.com/death-of-a-klansman-25-years-later-how-the-sick-legacy-of-bob-miles-continues-to-haunt-howell/
>reeeeeeee very fine people
>provides some context, but REUTERS is heavily biased against Trump.
Fake News is the enemy of the people
>Death of a klansman, 25 years later: How the sick legacy of Bob Miles continues to haunt Howell
And it hasnât changed. Today, when you do a Google search for âHowell Michigan,â this suggestion comes up No. 2 on the list: âHowell Michigan KKK.â
Thatâs the legacy of Bob Miles. Heâs been dead for 25 years, but thatâs what comes up when you Google this town. âHowell Michigan KKK.â
As if it needs to be said, Iâll say it anyway: There is no Ku Klux Klan in Howell, or anywhere else in Livingston County. The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks such things, confirms it. There are no white supremacist groups operating anywhere in Livingston County. To correct that filmmaker from California, Howell is not âstill something of a hotbedâ for the KKK.
Thereâs no Klan in Howell, thereâs no Klan in Cohoctah Township, thereâs no Klan anywhere here. This is not âKlan country.â Howell is not âstill something of a hotbedâ for the Klan.
There is no Klan here. None. Thereâs only a Klansman who has been dead for 25 years now.
As we observe the 25th anniversary of Bob Milesâ death â especially in the context of what happened in Charlottesville â itâs appropriate to reflect on his life and times. In an entirely negative way, he was one of the most influential people in Livingston County history.
Sad to say, I knew Bob Miles. Back in the 1980s, when I was the editor of the Livingston County Press and Brighton Argus, Miles would frequently stop in the newspaper office and pick up a few copies every time we wrote something about him. Unlike other hate-group leaders who shied away from publicity, Miles loved it.
He would make a point of seeking me out to say something snarky, and that would be that. I also got to see him in action in 1989, when he made a memorable appearance before the Michigan Civil Rights Commission in Howell.
Bob Miles also arranged for the Ku Klux Klan to give me an award in 1989. More on that later.
People will point out that Miles was a highly intelligent, literate and charming man â which is why he was such a charismatic leader for the hate movement â but be clear about this: Bob Miles was an evil man.
He didnât just think evil thoughts. He did evil things.
In 1971, he was convicted of conspiring to bomb school buses in Pontiac. That same year, he helped to tar and feather a high school principal from Ypsilanti named R. Wylie Brownlee.
Robert Miles in handcuffs in the early 1970s, heading to trial for conspiring to bomb school buses in Pontiac.
Think about that for a minute. He tarred and feathered another human being. You can read the details here. Theyâll turn your stomach.
Thatâs evil. Thatâs pure evil, and Bob Miles was pure evil.
Miles went to prison for his crimes, and when he got out, he began to cement his reputation as a white-supremacist icon. He started holding cross-burnings at his farm in Cohoctah Township, and started dragging down Livingston Countyâs reputation in the process. Word began to spread all over the country that âthey hold cross-burnings in Howellâ (never mind that it wasnât in Howell). The media and everyone else started to think of this as âKlan country.â
All because of one evil man.
And as I said, Miles was very open about it all. He gladly invited anyone and everyone to attend his hate rallies â including the media. In 1986, he invited two of our reporters to attend one of the cross-burnings. That same year, he invited the crew from âBlood in the Faceâ (a group that included a then-unknown filmmaker from Flint named Michael Moore) to a rally.
If you want a taste of what went on at these rallies, check out the clips from âBlood in the Faceâ on YouTube. Youâll see one of them at the bottom of this story that features Miles talking about how he was looking to grow the Klanâs membership.
And then thereâs the award that Miles and the KKK gave to me.
>Death of a klansman, 25 years later: How the sick legacy of Bob Miles continues to haunt Howell
>Like the sands of time, whole facade shifting with erosion. Check
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>Bob Miles was a FEDBoi
And a Commie from the looks of it
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>And a Commie from the looks of it
>2 .Verify if subject did join the CPin 1949