White supremacist leader steps down as Trump delegate

May 11, 2016 Updated 5:22 p.m.
By KEVIN SULLIVAN and ELAHE IZADI / The Washington Post

A prominent national white supremacist leader has resigned as a Donald Trump delegate to the Republican National Convention after campaign officials said his nomination was the result of a “database error.”

William Daniel Johnson, who has called for a whites-only United States and the deportation of other races and ethnicities, said in an interview Wednesday that he resigned for the good of the Trump campaign, which he supports.

“They don't need the baggage that came along with my signing up as a delegate,” said Johnson, a Los Angeles corporate lawyer who has been active in U.S. white supremacy circles for more than three decades.

Johnson's name was included in a slate of delegates that the Trump campaign submitted Monday for certification by the California secretary of state's office ...

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