Black Panther Party Founder: Trump ‘Even Worse’ Than Nixon

Black Panther Party Founder:  Trump ‘Even Worse’ Than Nixon

CAMBRIDGE — Bobby Seale, the 1960s revolutionary civil rights activist, told a crowd that he believes recently-inaugurated President Donald Trump is far more dangerous to the social justice movement than former President Richard Nixon could have ever hoped to have been.

"When I look at Trump today, I say 'oh my God,' because Trump is even worse than Nixon," Seale said at one point during his hour-long speaking engagement ahead of a book signing , just after he recalled how in 1969 Nixon ordered then-F.B.I. Director J. Edgar Hoover to bring the hammer down on Seale's Black Panther Party.

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