Moore is facing increased criticism on social media over claims about his background
Maryland’s Democratic Gov. Wes Moore, widely believed to have White House ambitions, is facing questions over the accuracy of a story about his family’s background involving being forced to flee the state of South Carolina due to threats from the Ku Klux Klan.
“I am literally the grandson of someone who was run out of this country by the Ku Klux Klan, right?” Moore told Time magazine in 2023 in a conversation about how he “reconciles Patriotism” with the country’s “racist past.”
“Right? So the fact that I can be both this grandson of someone who was run outta this country by the Ku Klux Klan, and also be the first Black governor in the history of the state of Maryland.”
Moore has frequently referenced his great-grandfather, James Thomas, as the figure in this story, including during a 2020 appearance on the Yang Speaks podcast titled “Wes Moore on how the KKK ran his family into exile,” where he detailed how his great-grandfather was a minister in Winnsboro, South Carolina, who fled to Jamaica after being threatened by the Klan.
republicans are gathering in cambridge today around 4 pm. i think no moore is supposed to speak at a town hall. we are saying to him No Moore! join us
How did it go?
Moore is a typical lying arrogant democrat who has no place in politics
Smoke and mirrors is all les moore has
NO Moore has to go!!!!!!!!!! This is the biggest POS to ever walk on Maryland soil.
les more thinks he’s smooth like barack obama, and he almost is except dumber.