The ‘Blacks for Trump’ leader who wants to ‘destroy DeSantis’ was an early follower of the murderous black supremacist cult

The ‘Blacks for Trump’ founder, who said in a recent interview that he wanted to ‘destroy’ Republican presidential candidate Governor Ron DeSantis, has been in trouble with the law for decades and is a follower dedication of the late cult leader Hulon Mitchell Jr.

Maurice Symonette, formerly Maurice Woodside, was interviewed by Laura Loomer, a former supporter of President Trump and two-time GOP candidate, during a protest outside DeSantis’ presidential campaign announcement at the Miami Hotel Four Seasons last Wednesday.

In a blog post accompanying her video, Loomer described Symonette as one of the “true grassroots voters” who wants to “make it clear that DeSantis is a fraud.”

“I’m here to destroy DeSantis, because he’s a bastard from hell,” Symonette told Loomer. “What I’m going to do is make sure you don’t win and everyone knows you’re a racist Republican RINO.”

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Neither Loomer nor Symonette are affiliated with the Trump campaign, according to a source with knowledge of the situation. Loomer reportedly met Trump earlier this year and was being considered for a campaign post until the potential hire received backlash from some of Trump’s top aides and ally representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, R -Ga., who called her “mentally unstable and a documented liar.” .”

Symonette made her comments alongside several other men wearing “Blacks for Trump” shirts who also advertised Symonette’s nonprofit, BOSS Group Ministries, which follows the teachings of cult founder Hulon Mitchell Jr. “Nation of Yahweh” murderer who disbanded after Mitchell landed behind bars.

Symonette is a 64-year-old Florida native who has faced multiple arrests dating back to the early 1980s, ranging from suspected identity theft to grand car theft, and he has filed for bankruptcy eight times, according to public records. .

Maurice Symonette, or Michael the Black Man, shouts during a protest outside the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami on Wednesday, June 26, 2019, ahead of the first Democratic presidential primary debates for the 2020 election. (John McCall/Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

In 2006 he was imprisoned after allegedly threatening a police officer, but was not convicted. In 2014, he was convicted of carrying a concealed weapon without a license.

Most recently, in May 2022, Symonette was charged with disorderly conduct. He has previously claimed he was targeted by authorities in Miami because of his political and religious beliefs.

Symonette, who publicly calls himself “Michael the Black Man”, was an early member of Mitchell’s “Nation of Yahweh”, a sect of the Black Hebrew Israelites movement, and he was called Mikael Israel in the 1980s. 1980.

The male-dominated island group lived communally, wore white robes and worked 18-hour days at Mitchell’s so-called “Temple of Love” in Miami, the Miami New Times reported in 2011, but the movement had multiple temples Across the country.

Maurice Symonette, or “Michael the Black Man,” shouts at Omar Mohamed, left, during a protest outside the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami on Wednesday, June 26, 2019. (John McCall/Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

In 1990, Symonette, Mitchell and 14 other Nation of Yahweh members were charged with murdering more than a dozen white people and dissidents, some by bombing and beheading, as part of the cult’s initiation process. . Witnesses reported that the members offered Mitchell the ears of their victims as a sacrifice. The 16 members were charged with one count of murder and one count of attempted murder, but Symonette and six others were acquitted after devout Robert Rozier, a former NFL player, confessed to seven of the murders.

Symonette’s brother, Ricardo Woodside, who would have left the Nation of Yahweh several years earlier, testified against Mitchell and his brother for a reduced sentence and served five years in prison. At trial, Ricardo said he and his brother unsuccessfully tried to kill a cult dissident and that his brother helped beat a man who later died, The New Times reported.

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Meanwhile, Mitchell, known to his followers as Yahweh Ben Yahweh, was convicted of conspiracy to murder and sentenced to 18 years in prison, and his Temple of Love was disbanded shortly thereafter.

Mitchell was paroled in Miami in 2001 after serving 11 years in prison, and died six years later of cancer.

Hulon Mitchell Jr., also known as Yahweh Ben Yahweh. (Getty)

Symonette, who legally changed her name from Woodside shortly after her acquittal, claimed Mitchell’s sentencing was politically motivated because the group supported Republicans, “and Democrats were very afraid of it,” The New Times reported.

In 2019, Symonette told local media that Mitchell asked his followers to support Trump as far back as 1984.

“Yahweh Ben Yahweh told us in 1984 that Trump was Cyrus,” Symonette told Local 10 News, referring to the former Persian king. “He said one day he would run for president.”

Symonette told a similar story to The Washington Post in 2018.

“Ben Yahweh said, ‘He is the man, he is the one who will fight for you,'” he said at the time.

Symonette made headlines during Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign after she was spotted behind the former president at several rallies across the country holding “Blacks for Trump” signs that also advertised his nonprofit religious organization. lucrative, BOSS Group Ministries, which stands for “Brothers of Superior Status” and appears to be a continuation of the worship of Yahweh.

“I like the signs behind me: Blacks for Trump. I like those signs,” Trump said at an October 2016 rally in Sanford, Florida. “Black people for Trump, you’re watching. You’re watching. These signs are great, thank you.”

After Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2017, Symonette posted a photo on Facebook of himself and other supporters “on stage at the inaugural ball.”

At a rally in Pennsylvania later that year, Trump saw the Black for Trump sign and said, “Thank you for that sign – Blacks for Trump – I love that guy. Thanks man. That’s really awesome. I really appreciate that,” CBS News reported.

Symonette and other Blacks for Trump members also appeared behind Trump at his October 2020 campaign rally in Ocala, Florida.

More recently, Symonette and her group set up camp near Trump’s Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, staging daily protests in support of the former president as he faces indictment in New York for alleged campaign finance violations.

In March, Symonette gave a sermon-like interview to FreedomNewsTV in Palm Beach, his followers adamantly agreeing with him that “when our day comes, we’ll stop your stinky a–.”

“I’m going with Trump, because if Yahweh Bin Yahweh tells me he’s our savior…I’m going with Cyrus, baby,” Symonette preached to News2Share as her supporters nodded and punctuated her words with applause and, “It’s true !”

During the protests, Symonette and her supporters wore shirts that read “BlacksForTrump2020.com,” which leads to a blog owned by Symonette’s BOSS group ministries called “Limitless Truth,” which said the group would not support DeSantis in the general election if he wins the Republican primary.

Symonette, who is listed as chair of BOSS Group Ministries, also donated at least $750 to the Joint Fundraising Committee of Save America, the primary fundraising apparatus for Trump’s 2024 campaign and his leadership. CAP.

BOSS Group Ministries regularly posts the phrases and teachings of the late Mitchell on its website and YouTube channel.

The department, however, appears to have at least partially abandoned the black supremacist teachings of Yahweh worship in favor of a form of racial separatism, with Trump at the helm.

Symonette is also fiercely anti-LGBTQ. In a video posted last month, he appeared to threaten “gay people” who didn’t repent anytime soon and backed Trump.

“To all my gay brothers out there…You can be saved,” he said in the video. “If you don’t want to be saved, I’m here to wipe your a– from planet Earth. And it’s real. It’s no joke.”

“Those who do not repent, do you think you are strong enough to oppose me, Trump and the Black Elamites and the Hebrew Israelites, Earth’s greatest warriors? N—-, stand up!” He continued. “Look what’s happening, boy. We’re going to stomp you a–.”

In the video, Symonette referred to the late Mitchell as her “father” and son of God.

In April last year, several people were shot, including one fatally, during one of Symonette’s weekly Jet Ski parties at her ministry headquarters in North Miami.

Last week, Symonette bragged in a video that her all-ages parties at the ministry often included a mix of white and black gang members and everyone got along and had fun.

“Black people mingle with nice white Europeans who are called the deplorable, the blessed – but only I can achieve that,” he said in the May 24 video. “I am the only one who can explain to black people who you are and that you are our true blood brother. Yahweh Ben Yahweh taught me that we must fight for you.”

Symonette did not respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.

Fox News Digital contacted the DeSantis campaign but did not receive a response.

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