‘Blacks for Trump’ have been a very visible presence at recent Trump rallies. They’ve been shown in the background at various speeches, holding their signs and cheering. A Facebook photo of several of the men leading the movement has been circulating among Trump supporters for a few months now.

Trump even acknowledged the group at a rally as they held signs and cheered behind him. One man in particular stands out. If you look at this Twitter photo from ABC news you will see the man standing just to the right of the middle-aged white woman holding her own ‘Blacks for Trump’ sign (which made me giggle). You can see on his shirt ‘Blacks for Trump’ and the partial name of his website.

.@realDonaldTrump praises “Blacks for Trump” signs at FL rally: “Blacks for Trump. You watch. You watch.” https://t.co/nbcZRDpXl9

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) October 25, 2016

The man, who goes by Michael the Black Man (I do enjoy truth in advertising) has been advocating for Trump for months, appearing on various media outlets including Fox News.

He’s also a former member of the cult Yaweh ben Yaweh. If you’ve never heard of this cult you can read about it at Wikipedia. I happen to have a minor obsession with cults and the Wikipedia page does a pretty good job of getting all the details about this correct. All you need to know is that it is the black, Christian version of Nation of Islam and their leader is responsible for the murders (some of them beheadings) of seven people, most from his own congregation.

Yaweh ben Yaweh believed that white people are created by satan and all Biblical characters were really black. There was a great segment on the cult in the Bio Channel’s show “Escaping Evil” if you ever care to find it. Here’s more from the NYPost:

Before he was winning attaboys from prominent members of the GOP, Michael ran with a vicious black-supremacist cult. In the early ‘90s, Michael and 15 other members of the Yahweh ben Yahweh cult were charged with conspiring in two murders, and even though his own brother testified that Michael stabbed a man in the eye with a sharp stick, he was let off by a Florida jury. In the decades since, he’s become a novel figure in South Florida, racking up criminal charges but no convictions and running a radio show that features his rants on “Demon-crats.”

The full spectrum of Michael’s political philosophy can be observed on his website Gods2.com, which he advertises on his signs at Trump rallies. It includes claims about Obama and Hillary Clinton being in the Illuminati, a video proving “that Hillary is in the KKK,” and more than a dozen personal videos related to an eviction and bankruptcy.

I believe in redemption. People get sucked into loony cults all the time (looking at you, Tom Cruise). They escape from those clutches and find new life all the time. Michael could just be one of those people.

Except if you check out his website it becomes immediately apparent he’s still not a stable human being.

Michael still considers himself connected to the cult. Perplexingly, he makes claims that the cult has changed their position on killing the “white devil” and that the real problem is Arabs and ISIS who want to kill all black men and lynch and burn them in the streets. He also claims Obama is an “Ishmaelite” plant and the anti-Christ.