Wayne Bradley with President Trump (Facebook photo)
Wayne Bradley with President Trump (Facebook photo)
Activists defending President Donald Trump blasted Michigan Republican Party's director of African American outreach after he criticized the presidential pardon of ex-Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio over the weekend and wrote that standing by Confederate monuments will not help the GOP convert minority voters, The Detroit News reports. Some Trump supporters say he should resign if he doesn't fall in line with the program.
Wayne Bradley, who is black and is paid to help run the state party’s permanent office in Detroit, lambasted Arpaio on Facebook.
“Violating civil rights and ignoring the laws does not make anyone a hero,” Bradley wrote. “A lot of people have lost (sight) of what being a Conservative is, this ain’t it.”
In a separate post, Bradley, who is paid for his outreach efforts, bashes Confederate monuments as "participation trophies" that "celebrate losers" and sides with calls to tear down reminders of slavery-era Civil War figures.
"If he continues to hold positions that I think are at odds with the president, who’s the leader of our party… I don’t think he’s the right person to carry our views – the party's views – into the black community and engage those folks," GOP activist Brian Pannebecker of Macomb County tells Jonathan Oosting of The News.
Antrim County party chairman Randy Bishop writes on Facebook:
No, . . . actually you work for and get paid by the Michigan Republican Party . . . and President Donald J. Trump is the CEO of the ENTIRE Republican Party. . . . No big tent for his employees!!! Get behind our President, or resign . . . now!!!
