Source: Fox News
“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.’ … Moore has frequently referenced his 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 grandfather was a minister in Winnsboro, South Carolina, who fled to Jamaica after being threatened by the klan.” (02/10/25)