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Let me preface this by saying that as black people, we always know there is going to be at least one. You know the type. They do the most to set themselves apart from the rest of us black folks because they want to be viewed as different and special. Even if it means selling other black people up the river, they will stand out in their other blackness by any means necessary.

Such is the case of 52-year-old Jerome Almon, a black man who wrote a racially charged email denouncing Black Lives Matter and advocating for the protection of some Confederate monuments. He told the Washington Post that he sent the email to help Donald Trump defend his response to the Charlottesville white supremacy riot and give him ammunition to condemn groups on the left, including Black Lives Matter.

I wanted to help him. This whole political bread and circuses needs to stop, Jerome Almon told the Post. Black Lives Matter is just as racist as the Nazis or the KKK or anyone else.

Were going to end up in a violent civil war, Almon added, saying that the president is our last chance or the violence you saw in Charlottesville is going to get worse.

Almon sent his email to Trump attorney John Dowd, who received it Tuesday night and shared it with government officials, conservative journalists and other administration allies Wednesday.

John Dowd, a veteran of Washington scandals, says his action does not mean he agrees with the

In the email, Almon claimed that Black Lives Matter has been infiltrated by terrorists. He also appeared to echo the presidents claims defending the central goal of the Charlottesville protest, which was led by a group that claims it rallied to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

At a Tuesday news conference, Trump claimed that the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacists were not completely to blame for the violent turn of events at the protest and said that there was blame on both sides. Those comments have created some serious political backlash for the president, who not only has not backed down on them but also doubled down on them in further statements.

Almon told the Post in a phone interview that he has previously met Trump, and as a onetime Obama supporter, he has come to support the current president because hes far more right than he is wrong, and hes done far more on average than his opponents.

Almon said that he wanted to provide the president with facts with which to reinforce his argument about Charlottesville, and in the email he even compared George Washington to Lee.

Both owned slaves, Almon wrote. Both rebelled against the ruling government. Both mens battle tactics are still taught at West Point. Both saved America.

Im going to sum up my feelings about Clayton Bigsby Jerome Almon with two words:

Nigga, please.

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Portland, Oregon, sports radio station KXTG-FM fired host Dino Costa aftercomments he made in June advocating for drivers to run over Black Lives Matter protesters with their cars gained national attention, RadioInsight reported this week.

The radio station initially stood by Costa despite the controversial comments, but new backlash in light of the Charlottesville, Virginia, Unite the Right protests led the station to terminate the provocative radio personality. Eugene Weekly posted a transcript of the comments Monday.

You know these protests where they shut down the road, they lie in the road? If Im the cops, I wave the traffic on, Costa said during a June 7 broadcast. Listen, as soon as one or two of these sumbitches are run over youll see the entire, in unison, everybody be up off the street. When people are being killed by 18-wheel trucks coming by, pickups, cars. Run em over!

Those comments took on a new resonance after Heather Heyer, a Charlottesville counterprotester, diedaftera white nationalist protester allegedly drove his vehicle into a crowd Saturday.

As late as Monday, a statement from the station said Costa had been disciplined with aggressive actions at the time of the original comments, but he had not been fired. Costa wasnt fired until Wednesday, after the displeasure of listeners, as well as the University of Oregon and the MLS Portland Timbers franchise, grew.

KXTG has broadcast agreements with the Timbers and University of Oregon football. The agreementswere put in jeopardy once Costas June comments gained more widespread attention. Both organizations strongly condemned Costaand the sentiments he expressed.

Costa has had a history of controversial or offensive takes on radio, and thiswasnt the first time his opinions have cost him a job. He was fired from a St. Louis radio stationearlier this year for his comments and behavior, including saying women dont have a place in sports radio.

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The author of a racially charged email forwarded by President Trumps lawyer said he sent the message in hopes it would help Trump defend his response to Charlottesville, and give the president fodder to go further in condemning groups on the left.

I wanted to help him. This whole political bread and circuses needs to stop, Jerome Almon told The Washington Post. Black Lives Matter is just as racist as the Nazis or the KKK or anyone else.

Almon, 52, who is black, has promoted a range of conspiracy theories online, and claims to have predicted several past terrorist attacks. But he said he crafted his email which was circulated wider Wednesday by Trumps lawyer, John Dowd out of worries that Trump could be taken down over his response to Charlottesville.

Were going to end up in a violent civil war, Almon said. Trump is our last chance or the violence you saw in Charlottesville is going to get worse.

Almons email advocated protection of some Confederate monuments and claimed that the protest group Black Lives Matter had been infiltrated by terrorists.

President Trump on Aug. 15 said that theres blame on both sides for the violence that erupted in Charlottesville on Aug. 12. (Bastien Inzaurralde/The Washington Post)

The email concluded: The President should confront the opposition with the facts ... his advisers are moving way [too] slow, and are not aggressive enough.

Dowd received the email Tuesday night, according to a copy Almon provided to The Post. Dowd forwarded the message to administration allies in Washington.

The contents of the email, and the fact that Dowd shared it with government officials, conservative journalists and others, was first reported by the New York Times.

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Dowd, 76, told The Post that he shares a lot of things with people over email and said it was unfair to equate forwarding one message with espousing its contents.

Dowd was recently hired to help Trump respond to an investigation by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. He sent the email to administration allies and journalists amid a firestorm over the presidents remarks about the deadly weekend protests in Charlottesville.

The email titled The Information that Validates President Trump on Charlottesville appeared to echo and applaud the controversial claim the president has made in defending a central goal of the protest led by white supremacists. The group said it rallied in the hometown of the University of Virginia to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Trump said at a Tuesday news conference that white supremacists and Ku Klux Klan members were not entirely to blame for the violent turn of events in Charlottesville on Saturday, where a counterprotester was killed and 19 were injured. Trumps comments and his reluctance to back off from those statements have led to a political backlash.

The email forward by Dowd may raise fresh questions about the way information travels in the orbit of advisers surrounding the president.

In the phone interview Wednesday night, Almon claimed to have previously met Trump, including when Almon was an activist opposing casino development in Detroit.

I believe President Trump probably remembers me, and probably recognizes me, and that was the whole thing I wanted to help him, Almon said. Prior encounters between Almon and Trump could not immediately be verified.

A onetime Obama supporter, Almon said he had come to support Trump because hes far more right than he is wrong, and hes done far more on average than his opponents.

Almon said he sent the email because he felt the president needed more historical facts to buttress his argument about Charlottesville.

His email at one point equates George Washington with Lee: Both owned slaves. Both rebelled against the ruling government. Both mens battle tactics are still taught at West Point. Both saved America.

Almon has a registered business under the name Murdercap Records and was profiled by Rolling Stone in 2007 after he filed an eyebrow-raising $900 million federal lawsuit against the Canadian government, the State Department and then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Almon claimed to have documentation of being racially profiled while trying to cross into Canada. The lawsuit was dismissed, according to federal records.

Almon said he hopes his email refocuses those who read it on more important problems.

We have very serious issues. If you want to get Trump on the issues, fine. Thats what should happen. On the economy? Policy? Fine. But taking him down over statues, when were $20 trillion in debt and about to go to war over North Korea, I cannot take that seriously.

Carol Leonnig and Amy Brittain contributed to this report.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's eldest son ripped "neo nazis scums" in a Facebook post Wednesday, but also took leftist "thugs" to task in his response to the violent rally in Charlottesville, Va.

"To put things in perspective. I'm a Jew, I'm an Israeli, the neo nazis scums in Virginia hate me and my country. But they belong to the past. Their breed is dying out," Yair Netanyahu said.

The 26-year-old echoed President Trump's sentiments, saying radical leftist groups such as Black Lives Matter and Antifa have become mainstream on America's college campuses.

"The thugs of Antifa and BLM who hate my country (and America too in my view) just as much are getting stronger and stronger and becoming super dominant in American universities and public life," he continued in his post.

Sources close to the prime minister told the Times of Israel that "Yair is an adult and his views are his alone."

Benjamin Netanyahu faced criticism for remaining largely silent in the immediate aftermath of the attack that claimed the lives of two state police officers and 32-year-old Heather Heyer. He later responded in a tweet condemning expressions of anti-Semitism.

"Outraged by expressions of anti-Semitism, neo-Nazism and racism. Everyone should oppose this hatred," Netanyahu tweeted Tuesday.

Netanyahu's Likud Party has roundly supported Trump's stance that there is "blame on both sides" for the violent demonstration, despite consternation Trump has faced from lawmakers within his own party.

"Violence and extremism on any side is forbidden and demands condemnation. That doesn't matter to the bleeding hearts on the Left and in the media. After all, they believe that only the Right is extremist and violent," Likud Knesset Member Oren Hazan said.

Former Netanyahu opponent Tzipi Lvini struck a more critical tone of Trump's statements, arguing neo-Nazism should not be equated with leftist counter-protesters.

"When it comes to racism, anti-Semitism and Nazism, there are never two equal sides. There's good and there's evil. Period," Lvini, a Zionist Union MK, said in a statement Wednesday.

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The group plans to protest at the site of a confederate statue downtown.

The Houston chapter of Black Lives Matter will hold a rally at Sam Houston Park on Saturday, August 19th, according toAshton Woods, a representative of the organization in Houston.

The rally will take place at 3:00 p.m., to demand that the City of Houston takes down The Spirit of the Confederacy statue and other Confederate monuments located on public property, Black Lives Matter says.

In response to this, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said on Thursday that the Houston Police, who handled protests during the Super Bowl earlier this year, are prepared for this one as well.

I just hope people will be respectful and follow the laws and will act in a very civil way, Turner said. You know, people have the right to voice their First Amendment. But I have so much confidence in HPD in making sure that everything is handled in a very orderly and respectful fashion.

Turner said he doesnt anticipate any violent demonstrations in Houston, and that he will continue with his plan to consider the removal of Confederate monuments located on public property.

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