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This Anti-Trans, Pro-Life Activist Was Pardoned by Donald Trump. Now She’s Working for RFK Jr.​

And her “relative”—MLK Jr.—may actually be rolling in his grave.​

Kiera ButlerMay 2, 2024
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. paired with Angela Stanton-King against a red background in a swirl of white stars.

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is best known for his famous family name, his anti-vaccine activism, and his unexpected third-party run for president. He’s not particularly well known for his passion for criminal justice reform. And yet, next month, he’s scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the Detroit stop on the New Dawn for Justice Criminal Reform Tour. The six-city tour’s website promises it “amplifies the collective voice calling for equitable and humane reform” and encourages “individuals from all walks of life to contribute to the reshaping of our justice system.”
The tour’s lead organizer is a Kennedy campaign staffer named Angela Stanton King, who brings her own experience to this fight for change. As her bio explains, “With a personal narrative of overcoming incarceration and championing prison reform, she has become a pivotal figure in advocating for justice.”

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Here’s what her bio doesn’t say: Stanton King, who is 47, vociferously supported Donald Trump—until she was hired by RFK Jr.’s campaign as its Black outreach director, where she now works. On culture war issues, she has little in common with Kennedy: Stanton King has several times been the subject of media attention for her anti-gay and anti-trans activism, issues Kennedy doesn’t touch. A staunch opponent of abortion, she is the founder of Auntie Angie’s House, an anti-abortion crisis pregnancy center and home for pregnant women and new mothers, while Kennedy has been generally pro-choice. But despite all that, Stanton King may be promising Kennedy something he desperately needs: an inroad with Black conservatives who are increasingly supporting Donald Trump—about 17 percent, according to a January poll.
The idea that a member of America’s most famous Democratic family could lure Trump voters in this tight race may appear counterintuitive: Until recently, it was a foregone conclusion that Kennedy’s candidacy could only help Trump. Yet Kennedy’s anti-vaccine crusading has curried favor with some on the right—and with Black conservatives, Kennedy may see an opportunity.
“I think she’s completely full of it, and [Kennedy] should be able to see right through it.”
And if he can appeal to those voters, Kennedy could potentially peel off Black conservatives from both parties, Emory University political science professor Andra Gillespie told me. Gillespie, who studies politics in the Black community, noted that unlike white conservatives, Black conservatives sometimes still vote Democrat. Stanton King, said Gillespie, “could possibly attempt to make the claim that her conservative cachet could possibly pick off Republicans, and could possibly pick off some Democratic voters,” some of whom might have soured on Biden because of his support for Israel. Whether Stanton King will be able to deliver, though, is another question. “I think she’s completely full of it,” Gillespie said, “and [Kennedy] should be able to see right through it.”
After a childhood spent bouncing back and forth between Buffalo, New York, and the South, when she was a young adult, Angela Stanton settled in Atlanta—where she became involved in a car-theft racketeering scheme. She was convicted in 2004 and went on to serve two years in state prison. About a decade later, Stanton self-published a memoir called Lies of a Real Housewife: Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil, and alleged that Phaedra Parks, star of the reality TV series Real Housewives of Atlanta, had been part of the same criminal scheme for which Stanton had been convicted. (Parks later sued Stanton for defamation, though she eventually agreed to drop the lawsuit with prejudice.)
During that tumultuous time in her life, Stanton met Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., an outspoken Trump supporter and prominent figure in Atlanta’s Black conservative community. “She looked at me as a child, a child that needed to be born again,” Stanton wrote in her 2018 memoir, Life of a Real Housewife: The Angela Stanton Story. King, she wrote, brought her in to help at the crisis pregnancy center and home for new mothers that she was running at the time. The work, which included formerly incarcerated women, was particularly meaningful to Stanton because she had been chained to a bed in prison while giving birth to one of her daughters. King became her mentor and godmother, and Angela Stanton went on to change her name to Angela Stanton King.
In 2020, President Trump officially pardoned Stanton King, saying in a statement that she “works tirelessly to improve reentry outcomes for people returning to their communities upon release from prison, focusing on the critical role of families in the process. This pardon is supported by Alveda King.”
Later that year, Stanton King used the momentum from Trump’s pardon to launch a run for the Georgia congressional seat once held by legendary civil rights leader John Lewis who had recently died of pancreatic cancer. Stanton King’s campaign manager was Trevian Kutti, who had once served as the publicist for Kanye West and would later go on to be charged with Donald Trump for his role in trying to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. In an interview about her campaign with the Guardian, Stanton King denied allegations that she was an adherent of the QAnon conspiracy theory. When the reporter confronted her with a tweet she had made referencing the debunked QAnon rumor that the furniture company Wayfair was trafficking children, she responded, “You know they are. You saw it. You watched the news just like I did.”
Stanton King lost in a landslide to her Democratic opponent, Nikema Williams. But just a month later, as the Covid vaccines were about to be rolled out, Stanton King discovered a new cause. In December 2020, she made an appearance at an Atlanta conference hosted by America’s Frontline Doctors, the right-wing physicians’ group that promoted conspiracy theories about the pandemic. The presenters—who included the group’s founder, January 6 insurrectionist Simone Goldwarned the crowd that the US government was using the Black community as guinea pigs for the vaccine. This was an especially potent accusation given the long and troubled relationship between the Black community and the mainstream medical establishment.
Stanton King saw an opportunity and in 2022, with her organization, the American King Foundation, she announced a new initiative called Stop Medical Apartheid to oppose “the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans.” In a press release, Stanton King wrote, “Medical Apartheid is Population Control. Population Control comes in different forms; Vaccines, Abortions, Mass Incarceration, and Perverted Sexual Agendas targeting children. Population Control is Racist! From the WOMB to the TOMB, it’s time Y’all!”
That same year, Stanton King spoke at the Defeat the Mandates rally in Los Angeles, an anti-vaccine event sponsored by a group of activists who also organized the anti-vaccine trucker convo. The lineup also included representatives from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s organization, Children’s Health Defense. In a sprawling speech, Stanton King thundered against vaccine mandates—but also touched on abortion (“lynching Black babies in the womb”) and transgender rights. “I’m only 45 years young, and I’ve only naturally birthed and naturally raised five children, and I say ‘naturally’ because I raised my boys to be boys and my girls to be girls,” she told the crowd, to thunderous applause.
Stanton King elaborated on that statement in a 2022 appearance on the TV talk show Dr. Phil, telling the in-studio audience that she would never accept her trans daughter’s gender identity. “I believe that it may be a form of mental illness,” she said “It’s not just that he was born male—he is a male.” Dr. Phil pushed back—and afterward, on Instagram, she posted a video of herself ranting about the show and trans people. “If you were supposed to be a woman, you wouldn’t have to go and have surgeries to get titties put on your breasts, you would already be born with them,” she yelled. “If you were a woman, you wouldn’t be born with a dick, you wouldn’t have to go get your dick cut off.” (Kennedy’s campaign didn’t respond to an emailed question about his response to these comments and his stance on transgender rights, or to any of the other questions I sent. Stanton King didn’t respond to my questions, either.)
Throughout her anti-vaccine and anti-trans crusading, Stanton King continued to support Trump in media appearances. “Trump can’t be President forever and I know that,” she tweeted in 2021. “But he’s the only one bold enough to fight these evil Demonic Satanic forces from the pits of HELL and I’m standing with him.”
“Trump can’t be President forever and I know that. But he’s the only one bold enough to fight these evil Demonic Satanic forces from the pits of HELL and I’m standing with him.”
But in late 2023, her alliances shifted. In a Twitter spaces event in late April, she said she had soured on the Trump campaign after the former president’s team declined to visit and support Auntie Angie’s House. So she reached out to Kennedy, whom she had met at the Defeat the Mandates rally in 2022, through her “really good friend,” Capitol insurrectionist Simone Gold. “He came by, and he sat down, and he talked to us for about an hour and a half,” she recalled. “And when he left that day, his perspective on abortion had changed.”
A few months later, when Kennedy asked her to work for his campaign, she was conflicted. “I did not want my relationship with Trump to be ruined,” she said in the Twitter Spaces event. Yet she had repeatedly reached out to the Trump campaign asking for a job, to no avail. “People were telling me to remember where I came from and I was nothing until Trump gave me a party and it was making it seem like because I got a pardon for Trump that you know, I wasn’t valid enough to have a paid position.” So she accepted Kennedy’s offer. By January of this year, Stanton King was knocking on doors with Kennedy in Atlanta’s historically Black West End neighborhood.
Kennedy, meanwhile, has confirmed that Stanton King’s thinking on abortion has influenced his own. While he has consistently stated that he believes that women should be able to choose abortion at any point in their pregnancies, in a recent appearance on the conservative talk show The Daily Wire, he told the story of his visit to Auntie Angie’s House. “I talked to some mothers in the last couple of weeks in Atlanta, Georgia, in this facility where I’ve been repeatedly back to—Angie’s House, run by Angela Stanton King, who is kind of a relative of Martin Luther King’s family,” he said. “She takes care of women who are being pressured to have abortions because they don’t have the money to take care of the baby, and I don’t think that that should ever be a reason in this country for a woman not carrying her child.”
Stanton King still seems conflicted about the former president. In the Twitter Spaces event, she said she blames her frustrations on “his gatekeepers,” not Trump himself. “I actually still support President Trump,” she said. “I just don’t work for him.” In April, in a since-deleted tweet, she attacked Diante Johnson, a Trump supporter and leader of the Black Conservative Federation, calling him “an open flaming Feminine closet Gay.” In another recent tweet she thundered, “Republicans think I’m helping RFK to help Trump. I have no regrets, but there’s no way on God’s green earth I’d support a party that turned their backs on Black Women & Babies while facing a Black Maternal Health Crisis. Who has their head that far up Trump’s ass cause it AINT me.”
This weekend, Stanton King’s New Dawn for Justice Tour is scheduled to make a stop at the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site in Atlanta. In an email to Mother Jones, a spokesperson for the King Center, the King family legacy nonprofit that runs the museum at the site, clarified that it “is not in any way affiliated with this event”—it will take place entirely outside in the area that is public space.
Will Stanton King’s imprimatur on the Kennedy campaign be enough to draw Black voters? Emory’s Gillespie doesn’t think so. She pointed to Stanton King’s failed run for Congress in 2020, when her Democratic opponent, Nikema Williams, won with 85 percent of the vote. “I think there may be a question of how deep her networks are—like, how influential could she possibly be in some of these communities?” Which, she said, made her wonder about Kennedy’s discernment. “What does this say about your judgment to put the administration together?”
Stanton King says she has big plans for the Kennedy administration. In her Twitter Spaces event in April, she spoke of “a vision that God gave me” in which there is “an Auntie Angie’s House in every Black community that has Planned Parenthood.” She said she was working with Kennedy on a policy, called More Choice, More Life, to make this vision a reality. “I’m so thankful that Bobby and his team are shedding light on what we’re doing.”
 

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Dana White makes shock political U-turn after backing Donald Trump in the election​

By ISABEL BALDWIN

Published: 18:17 EST, 21 November 2024 | Updated: 05:10 EST, 22 November 2024


Dana White was a quasi-permanent fixture on Donald Trump's campaign trial as he threw his full support behind the Republican candidate in his bid to seek re-election.

The UFC president, who is close friends with the 78-year-old, has been such an ardent supporter that he even stole the limelight during Trump's victory celebrations at Mar-a-Lago after beating Kamala Harris at the ballot box.

But now that Trump has sealed his return to the White House, the UFC chief wants nothing to do with the president-elect's second term - or politics at all.

'I'm never f***ing doing this again,' he told The New Yorker. 'I want nothing to do with this s***. It's gross. It's disgusting. I want nothing to do with politics.'

It appears the GOP will not be able to rely on White for endorsement in the future with his alliance extending to Trump, and Trump alone.
With Trump's presidential campaign marking the first and last foray into politics for White, it is no real surprise that the 45th president is the sole recipient of White's political backing.

Dana White was a quasi-permanent fixture on Donald Trump's campaign trial this year




But now the president-elect has sealed re-election, the UFC chief has sworn off politics



White has been a long-time friend and ardent supporter of Trump with the former president echoing the support in his backing of UFC over the years.


Trump tapped the UFC President and CEO to speak for him at the last three Republican National Conventions before inviting him to the onstage victory party following this month's election triumph.
White was invited to say a few words at the podium on the stage, and after some glowing praise for Trump, launched into what seemed to be a victory speech of his own.
And the UFC president continued to praise Trump this week, hailing him as one of the toughest men he knows.

'Donald Trump is tougher and more badass than anybody,' White also told The New Yorker. 'You can only pray that you're a quarter of the man that Donald Trump was when a guy tried to take seven shots at his head with a high powered rifle with a fucking scope on it.'
And Trump has reciprocated White's support over the past few decades, publicly backing the UFC - even claiming to be its savior.
Trump has regularly attended fight nights, most recently arriving cageside at Madison Square Garden for UFC 309 with Elon Musk and White in tow last weekend.

'As the UFC has grown, there's been a lot of people that have jumped on the bandwagon and became fans,' White said. 'Trump was there from the beginning.'

78-year-old Trump has been an avid supporter of White's UFC throughout the years





Jon Jones celebrated his victory with Trump, who attended the UFC event on Saturday


Jon Jones celebrated his victory with Trump, who attended the UFC event on Saturday
Jon Jones hands Donald Trump his UFC championship belt after win


Trump basked in his post-election glory at the UFC event - the first since his re-election - when American fighter Jon Jones appeared to dedicate his victory to the president-elect.

Jones emerged victorious in front of the president-elect at Madison Square Garden where he got into the patriotic spirit after a knockout win over Stipe Miocic .

Jones and Trump shook hands and capped a fight night charged with politics as much as punches inside a raucous MSG where 'USA!' chants echoed through the arena.

'A big, big thank you to President Donald Trump for being here tonight,' Jones said inside the cage before presenting Trump with the belt and imitating the president-elect's now-iconic arm-shimmy dance.

'I'm proud to be a great American champion. I'm proud to be a Christian-American champion.'

After leaving the cage, the UFC Heavyweight champion made his way over to where Trump was sitting with Musk and handed him his championship belt.
 

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Donald Trump’s U.F.C. Victory Party​

Dana White, the C.E.O. of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, helped Trump reach young male voters. Now White says he’s done with politics: “I want nothing to do with this shit.”
By Sam Eagan
November 19, 2024
Donald Trump shakes hands with Jon Jones after his victory.

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Alittle more than a week before the Presidential election, Donald Trump hosted a rally at Madison Square Garden that some speculated would be the death knell of his campaign. Eleven days after his victory, he returned to the Garden for an Ultimate Fighting Championship event, walking onto the arena floor to Kid Rock’s “American Bad Ass.” Trump was flanked by his longtime friend Dana White, the C.E.O. of the U.F.C., who, perhaps more than anyone else, helped Trump mobilize young men to the polls. Behind the two men were key members of the next Trump era: Elon Musk; Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.; the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson; Tulsi Gabbard; and Vivek Ramaswamy.
“It’s always loud when he comes here, but now that he’s won? Now that he’s the President again? Oh, my God,” Joe Rogan, a longtime U.F.C. commentator, announced from the floor. Trump closed in on the octagon and pulled Rogan into a long embrace, as the crowd roared. Then, for around twenty minutes, Trump and his allies continued to stand just outside the cage. Every now and then, someone in the audience would start up a chant of “U.S.A.” There was a boom of applause when Trump danced to “Y.M.C.A.”



The headline fight was between two heavyweight champions, Jon Jones and Stipe Miocic, but much of the audience had come to see the President-elect, who had suggested, during an appearance on Rogan’s podcast in October, that he would be in attendance. (“I’ll either go as President, or I’ll be depressed and I won’t bother going,” he said.) “We heard Donnie Trump was coming through and couldn’t miss that,” a twenty-four-year-old man named Robert, from suburban New Jersey, told me. His friend Keith added, “It just makes it seem like he wants to be part of what all the regular people do.” A twenty-year-old fan named Tiny Boadu, who wore a MAGA hat and a Trump shirt, similarly described Trump as a “person of the people.” Boadu said that Trump’s love of U.F.C. was a major part of his appeal. “Presidents don’t usually come out to events like this,” he told me.
The U.F.C., valued at more than twelve billion dollars, is the world’s largest mixed-martial-arts organization. “As the U.F.C. has grown, there’s been a lot of people that have jumped on the bandwagon and became fans,” White told me. “Trump was there from the beginning.” When the U.F.C. first launched, in 1993, it was marketed as a blood sport with no gloves, no time limits, and almost no rules. This led to nationwide controversy, with John McCain famously referring to the sport as “human cockfighting.” In 2001, when Dana White and Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta stepped in and bought the company, the U.F.C. had been nearly regulated out of existence. White was tasked with cleaning up the sport’s image and working with regulators to ease restrictions. That year, Trump helped save the fledgling sport by hosting multiple events at the Trump Taj Mahal, his casino in Atlantic City. The Taj Mahal was in ruinous debt and would later go bust, but the U.F.C.—and Trump’s friendship with White—thrived. When Trump launched his first Presidential campaign, in 2015, White was one of the first public figures to endorse him. And during and after his first term, Trump was able to look to the U.F.C. as a sort of safe space. In October, 2019, Trump was roundly booed at a World Series game in Washington, D.C. The next week, he went to a U.F.C. event at M.S.G. “Every time when he was getting hammered at his worst, we’d walk into that arena and the place erupts and goes crazy,” White told me. “It shows other people, Oh, wait. Everybody doesn’t hate Donald Trump like the media is telling us.”
White credits the U.F.C.’s recent spike in popularity to the COVID-19 pandemic. When other major sports leagues went on pause, the U.F.C., which largely utilizes its own production team, continued to hold and promote events during lockdown. This made White something of a hero among conservatives, as he circumnavigated COVID-19 restrictions perceived as draconian by many on the right. It also attracted bored young men to the sport. Jonathan Charbonneau, a sixteen-year-old at the M.S.G. event, told me, “The sport was there for me to watch in COVID and stuff like that, when I had nothing else to do. It gave me something to look forward to, something to do when I couldn’t even leave my house.”


At the Garden, Trump and his entourage sat next to White. Seated nearby was Taylor Lewan, one of the hosts of Barstool Sports’s popular podcast “Bussin’ with the Boys.” During Trump’s 2024 campaign, White played a pivotal role in brokering relationships between Trump and certain hosts among the canon of “bro-casts”: Lewan and his co-host, Will Compton, Theo Von, Adin Ross, Andrew Schulz, the Nelk Boys, and, of course, Rogan. White explained that the goal was to mobilize members of the younger generation that typically don’t vote. Young men, one of the most unreliable demographics in politics, make up a large part of U.F.C.’s audience. “You’re getting conversations in these podcasts, and you yourself, as a young kid, get to really see who Donald Trump is,” White explained. “Not the bullshit you hear from the far-left media.” During Trump’s victory speech, he invited White onstage, and White specifically thanked Von, Ross, the Nelk Boys, and other podcasters for their help.
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The penultimate fight of the night got underway: Michael Chandler, a muscle-bound Midwesterner, versus the Brazilian fighter Charles Oliveira. Chandler took a beating for the first four rounds, then tried to steal a victory in the closing seconds of the fight. As Oliveira clung to him like a backpack, Chandler rose to his feet and slammed his opponent on his back and head. Their bodies crashed into the canvas, and the crowd roared. Then Chandler did it again, rising to his feet and crashing once more into the floor, with Oliveira still on his back. Trump stared on, seemingly unmoved. “All I know how to do is throw American badass caution to the wind. Madison Square Garden, are you not entertained?” Chandler said, moments after losing the fight.
The evening closed with a fight between two legends. In one corner stood Jon Jones, considered by some to be the greatest U.F.C. fighter of all time—a massive, gangly man who had built a reputation for his run-ins with the law and for finishing his opponents with a violence notable even among cage fighters. In the other was two-time U.F.C. heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic, known for his indefatigable pace and unbreakable chin.
In a battle of two aging, creaky, sometimes lurching heavyweights, Jones finished Miocic with a spinning back-kick to the ribs in the second round. While Miocic writhed in pain, Jones celebrated in the middle of the ring with a dance mimicking Trump’s, pumping his arms into the air back and forth. (Outside the ring, Trump could be seen high-fiving Kid Rock.) In his post-fight interview, Jones thanked Trump for attending, then led the crowd in chants of “U.S.A.”

“I’m proud to be a great American champion,” Jones told the crowd. “I’m proud to be a Christian American champion.” He left the ring and gave Trump his championship belt. In that moment, Jones appeared as an almost-mythological figure, a living legend in a sport still being carved out of history. Standing eye to eye with him was Trump, who, in every way, was being presented by the U.F.C. as his spiritual equal.



The product White is selling—two people locked in a cage, engaging in a mixture of boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jujitsu, Muay Thai, and karate among other martial arts—mirrors Trump’s own appeal in many respects. The U.F.C. alternates between the camp theatrics of show business and a kind of abject brutality that is impossible to look away from. The sport is now fully in the mainstream, but it still has a chip on its shoulder, casting itself and its fans as widely misunderstood.

“Donald Trump is tougher and more badass than anybody,” White told me. “You can only pray that you’re a quarter of the man that Donald Trump was when a guy tried to take seven shots at his head with a high powered rifle with a fucking scope on it.”

This is the image that helped propel Trump to the Presidency. The question is whether it’s replicable. (It’s hard to imagine, for instance, young U.F.C. fans flocking to the polls to vote for J. D. Vance in 2028.)

White, for his part, told me that he’s done helping with Presidential campaigns. Trump is a friend—but the rest of the G.O.P. may be on their own. “I’m never fucking doing this again,” he said. “I want nothing to do with this shit. It’s gross. It’s disgusting. I want nothing to do with politics.”
 

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"I was not a Trump backer in the beginning," he told the Times. "But I eventually got on board for fear of losing the Constitution altogether, for fear of going down this hypersocialist road. I thought, 'How bad can Trump possibly be?' Sure, it was a big bet on the unknown. But nobody can change Washington from the inside. They're all phonies. We believe that both the Republicans and Democrats have sold Americans out."

"Everyone is lying. The CDC, media, Democrats, our doctors, not all but most, that we are told to trust. I think it's all about the election and keeping the economy from coming back, which is about the election. I'm sick of it."

Days later, Woolery announced that his son had contracted COVID, softening his tone to acknowledge the virus' reality. "COVID-19 is real and it is here," he tweeted before deleting his account. His account was later restored.
 

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Daniel Penny joins Trump and Vance at Army-Navy game

In the span of six days, subway vigilante Daniel Penny has gone from sweating a future jail cell to hanging out with the president-elect in a luxury suite.

By Rich Calder, Diana Glebova and Dana Kennedy
Dec. 14, 2024


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Vance also texted Penny’s lead attorney to congratulate them on the verdict.
 
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