I tried to look up that story, but couldn't find anything.
Care to offer a source?
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Trump was in college when MLK was killed and didn't take over his dad's company until years later. MLK was, however, a Christian that supported the constitution and the rights given by it so he likely would've voted for Trump. Alveda supports Trump.
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Trump was very much in the real estate business when he was taken to court in 1973 under the Fair Housing Act, which was very much a part of MLK's legacy. King and Trump were NOT on the same side of the civil rights movement.
Family is an odd thing so his niece's opinion does not have relevence to discussing King's politics.
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Say what you mean. You said "he" sued Trump. "he" was killed in 1968. That is not 1973. Listen to the views "he" had, "he" sounds more like a conservative by today's politics.
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He was on his way to give a speech to a steel workers' union when he died. He took landlords to court over housing discrimination, which Trump definitely got caught up in even if it was an aftershock that outlived Dr King himself. He supported a higher minimum wage and a historical compensation to black Americans. He was anti-Vietnam War and considered it neo-colonialism. He denounced Barry Goldwater who in many ways began the conservative movement's descent into today's madness. "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death" - that's not today's conservativism by any stretch.
I'm sick of your revisionist bullshit. Dr Martin Luther King Jr was NOT of any position that would have had him voting for Trump. That's. Nonsense.
James Earl Ray killed King. He was a Democrat who supported George Wallace and his racist platforms. Any claims that it was the CIA is a conspiracy theory concocted to protect racist Democrats.