Donald Trump Jr.’s Interview With Notorious White Supremacist On Pro-Slavery Show

In a move hard to explain away by the Trump campaign, Donald Trump Jr. gave a lengthy interview to pro-slavery talk show host James Edwards, a notorious white supremacist.

Donald Trump and his campaign have come under scrutiny lately for both policy proposals that seem to many as racist in addition to his inflammatory rhetoric that many find offensive. There have been instances of a female African-American student being assaulted at a rally and other African-American students being asked to leave a rally for no discernible reason. Trump also came under fire for his initial refusal to disavow the endorsement of David Duke, the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan. But at a time when the GOP frontrunner’s campaign is trying to distance itself from claims of racism, Donald Trump Jr., a surrogate for his father’s campaign, granted the interview. During the interview, Trump Jr. also eluded to some rather questionable beliefs.

The interview itself was conducted along with Sam Bushman, the owner of the syndicate that hosts James Edwards’ show, and the host of the Liberty Roundtable.

The full interview between Donald Trump Jr. and white supremacist James Edwards can be listened to below.

Donald Trump’s campaign gave James Edwards full press credentials to political rallies, as well as VIP parking, and granted him an interview with a campaign surrogate who also shares the same name as the presidential candidate.

During the interview, Trump Jr., perhaps predictably, pointed to his father’s perceived success in the construction business.

“We’ve built more jobs, union [jobs] and stuff like that, than anyone,” Trump Jr. said.

But as Edwards questioned Trump Jr., he skillfully steered the interview around to issues of race and immigration — the very two issues that has garnered Trump so much support from white supremacists.

“You’re not only going to win with the minorities, but the white working class is going to come out and vote, which is really the base [of the Republican Party],” Edwards said.

Trump Jr. quickly agreed.

“Those traditional jobs, union jobs, you think they’re going to vote for Hillary [Clinton]? What have the Democrats done for them? They let in all this illegal immigration, everyone who doesn’t belong here. They say, ‘Give ’em jobs, give ’em health care, and let them undercut your wages.’

“Those guys are going to come out for a Republican for the first time.”

The hosts seemed to purposefully maneuver Trump Jr. into using coded phrases that white supremacists would recognize and to champion ideas that white nationalists support.

A common belief for white supremacists is to deny that immigrants and minority groups have made any contributions to this country, stating instead that since Europeans settled America, the United States should remain a white nation. The mission statement of the Political Cesspool, in fact, states that clearly.

“America would not be a prosperous land of opportunity if the founding stock were not Europeans. Therefore, we advocate for an America First immigration policy. You can’t have a First World nation with a Third World population.”

In the same vein, Trump Jr. said that both political parties have not given “a voice to the hard-working Americans who made this country so great.”

Democrats “cater more to people here illegally, and countries who would like to see us wiped off the face of the earth,” Trump Jr. added.

At first, Trump’s campaign denied that Trump Jr. had done an interview with Edwards, but since Edwards had proof of the interview, the Trump campaign later said that the interview had been scheduled by a press agency and that Trump Jr. had no idea about Edwards’ history.

However, as the Trump campaign backpedaled from its white supremacy connections, Sam Bushman, who was in on the interview with Trump Jr., threatened to release the emails Trump’s press agents had sent Edwards asking for an interview.

“Don’t play games with me,” Bushman said on his radio show. “We have the emails. We can prove it. And we’ve even sent the emails to the campaign headquarters, and so they know the truth. But they don’t want to tell the truth.”

Other Republican presidential candidates, Edwards said, have refused to give him an interview.

“Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, none of them even would make any time for us,” Edwards said. “Then we asked for credentials at the Trump rally, and we got them right away. Then they reach out to us, and ask, do we have an opportunity to chat? This is interesting, to say the least, about who’s who [in the presidential race].”

Edwards openly promotes his racist and anti-semitic beliefs both on the radio show and on his website, although he did tell the Huffington Post that he, along with his co-hosts, “reject media descriptions of our work as ‘white supremacist,’ ‘pro-slavery’ and other such scare words.”

However, despite that rejection, the website for the Political Cesspool states that its mission is to “revive the White birthrate above replacement level fertility and beyond to grow the percentage of Whites in the world relative to other races,” as well as claiming to represent those who are “pro-White.”

According to the Huffington Post, many white supremacists, who have thrown their support behind Donald Trump, say it’s been 40 years since they’ve seen a presidential candidate so populist and nativist.