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A Black, gay conservative insisted he’s sticking by Donald Trump despite facing racial and homophobic harassment by the former president’s supporters. Podcast host Rob Smith published a column in Newsweek explaining that he was still backing Trump despite leaving the Republican Party last year after far-right extremists inspired by white supremacist Nick Fuentes chanted slurs at him at an event hosted by the right-wing Turning Points USA. “My vote for Trump in the 2024 election was not guaranteed,” Smith wrote. “I am a two-time Obama voter who did not vote in 2016, as I felt at the time that n…

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