Former President Donald Trump said he is “very honored” after he purportedly received an early 2024 endorsement from a Black man claiming to be a top activist in Black Lives Matter — the social justice movement that Trump continually blasted during his term as protests gripped the country in 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd.
Naturally, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis who is debating California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday evening, didn’t miss the chance to call out Trump’s flip flopping.
Word of the surprise endorsement emerged Nov. 28 after self-proclaimed political activist Mark Fisher, who says he co-founded a BLM organization in Rhode Island, expressed his support for Trump during an interview with “Fox & Friends” while complaining about Biden-era policies.
“Personally, I love the man,” Fisher said of Trump during his brief segment on the air. “I mean, how could you not like a real man? How could you not relate to someone like that?”
During the impromptu chat, Fisher said “everybody else sucks” in the race compared to Trump, who wasted no time embracing the shaky endorsement in a message to his platform, Truth Social, saying he spoke with Fisher and came away from the conversation feeling that he was a “great guy.”
“Very honored to have his and BLM’s support,” Trump wrote, before claiming to have “done more for Black people than any other president” since Abraham Lincoln ended slavery in the United States, a claim that also stirred controversy and rumblings in the Black community during his presidency.
Later, Gary Dantzler — the leader of Black Lives Matter Rhode Island — disputed Fisher’s claim that he co-founded the social justice group, however, he did acknowledge that Fisher once worked for the organization for a short time before he was ultimately let go.
“Mark Fisher stated he was one of the co-founders of BLM,” Dantzler told the Providence Journal, without…
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