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  Simone Michelle My dad and I have a message for southern, pickup truck-driving, camouflage-wearing, Christian, gun-owning white people...you don't have to support Trump. Somehow, there's been a conflation of identity, where people feel that to be "southern" means they must also vote republican, defend the Confederate flag, condone white supremacy, and hate democrats. But guess what - the best way to demonstrate your southern pride and patriotism is by denouncing unamerican values like bigotry and hate. Fellow southerners - what is it that you think you have in common with Donald Trump that makes you so enamored by him? Seriously. 🚫 He's not southern - he was born in New York City with a silver spoon in his mouth and he never left. 🚫 He's never worked for anything in his life - his father gave him $1 million dollars to start his business, and he still declared bankruptcy 6 times. He doesn't even pay his taxes like the rest of us, and we foot...

Note that this press release - yes on the letterhead - is promoted by the trump war room on Sept 13, 2012. In 2016, then-presidential candidate Trump received the endorsement of a group of Bay of Pigs veterans, who also presented him with a framed, hand-painted image of the Shield of Brigade 2506, which Trump described in 2020 as a "Bay of Pigs Award." In a press release published four years after the fact, the Veterans Association Brigade 2506 recast the gift as a "recognition award." https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/fabiola-santiago/article110431447.html https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/fabiola-santiago/article245738040.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigade_2506 https://www.laahs.com/dastardly-plot/ Then there is Stoned. Law abiding, straight shooting... shooting anyway. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/13/roger-stone-to-donald-trump-bring-in-martial-law-if-you-lose-election https://www.dr-smith.in...