A prominent leader in the Ku Klux Klan said the gr
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Posted On: 04/27/2016 4:07:21 PM
A prominent leader in the Ku Klux Klan said the group is officially endorsing Hillary Clinton for president and has already donated $20,000 to her campaign.
Klan leader Will Quigg told Vocativ over the weekend, “For the KKK, Clinton is our choice,” adding, “She is friends with the Klan,” Quigg said. “A lot of people don’t realize that. She’s friends with [the late] Senator [Robert] Byrd. He’s been an Exulted Cyclops in the Klan. He’s been King Kleagle.”
The West Virginia senator was the leader of his state’s Klan chapter in the 1940s, according to Vocativ. In 2005, he publicly disavowed his involvement in the KKK, saying it was wrong. Upon his death in 2010, Clinton described Byrd as a “friend and mentor.” Byrd was among the longest serving senators in the body’s history, holding his seat continuously from 1959 until his passing.
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Quigg stated that he and other members of the Klan have donated $20,000 anonymously to Clinton’s campaign to date. Campaign spokesman Josh Schwerin claimed they have “not received anywhere close to $20,000 in anonymous donations in total, [so] it is impossible that they are telling the truth.” However, members could have donated to the campaign individually without having any need to identify themselves as Klan members. A search for Will Quigg on the FEC individual contributors to Clinton did not yield any results.
Klan leader Will Quigg told Vocativ over the weekend, “For the KKK, Clinton is our choice,” adding, “She is friends with the Klan,” Quigg said. “A lot of people don’t realize that. She’s friends with [the late] Senator [Robert] Byrd. He’s been an Exulted Cyclops in the Klan. He’s been King Kleagle.”
The West Virginia senator was the leader of his state’s Klan chapter in the 1940s, according to Vocativ. In 2005, he publicly disavowed his involvement in the KKK, saying it was wrong. Upon his death in 2010, Clinton described Byrd as a “friend and mentor.” Byrd was among the longest serving senators in the body’s history, holding his seat continuously from 1959 until his passing.
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Quigg stated that he and other members of the Klan have donated $20,000 anonymously to Clinton’s campaign to date. Campaign spokesman Josh Schwerin claimed they have “not received anywhere close to $20,000 in anonymous donations in total, [so] it is impossible that they are telling the truth.” However, members could have donated to the campaign individually without having any need to identify themselves as Klan members. A search for Will Quigg on the FEC individual contributors to Clinton did not yield any results.
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